Brenda Blethyn
Acting
Brenda Anne Blethyn is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and a Golden Lion, and has earned a Theater World Award and both a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work.
Born into a working class home in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn pursued an administrative career until her early 30s before enrolling in the…
Filmography
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A Woman of Substance
2026
Dragonfly
2025
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025
Charlotte
2022
Kate & Koji
2020
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
Ethel & Ernest
2016
Two Men in Town
2014
Mary and Martha
2013
Playhouse Presents
2012
My Angel
2011
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
Vera
2011
The Calling
2010
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009
London River
2009
Dead Man Running
2009
War and Peace
2007
Clubland
2007
Atonement
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Mysterious Creatures
2006
The One Show
2006
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006
Pride & Prejudice
2005
On a Clear Day
2005
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005
Beyond the Sea
2004
A Way of Life
2004
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Belonging
2004
Between The Sheets
2003
Blizzard
2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
Undertaking Betty
2002
Sonny
2002
Lovely & Amazing
2002
Pumpkin
2002
The Yellow Bird
2002
V Graham Norton
2002
Daddy and Them
2001
On the Nose
2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
Saving Grace
2000
RKO 281
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Little Voice
1998
In the Winter Dark
1998
So Graham Norton
1998
Girls' Night
1998
Music from Another Room
1998
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
Night Train
1998
Remember Me?
1997
Secrets & Lies
1996
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
Outside Edge
1994
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993
The Bullion Boys
1993
GMTV
1993
A River Runs Through It
1992
HBO First Look
1992
Maigret
1992
All Good Things
1991
The Witches
1990
Screen One
1989
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
The Shawl
1989
The Labours of Erica
The Labours of Erica
1989
This Morning
1988
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988
The Storyteller
1988
The Play on One
1988
Claws
1987
The Mysteries
1985
Chance in a Million
1984
Weekend Playhouse
Weekend Playhouse
1984