Brenda Blethyn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1946-02-20 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Brenda Blethyn

Biography

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 Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution o...

Acting

1992

1990

The Witches

as Mrs Jenkins

2000

Saving Grace

as Grace Trevethyn

2002

Undertaking Betty

as Betty Rhys-Jones

2007

Atonement

as Grace Turner

2005

Pride & Prejudice

as Mrs. Bennet

1996

Secrets & Lies

as Cynthia Rose Purley

1998

Girls' Night

as Dawn Wilkinson

2004

Beyond the Sea

as Polly Cassotto

1998

Little Voice

as Mari Hoff

2002

Pumpkin

as Judy Romanoff

2009

2002

Sonny

as Jewel

2005

Pooh's Heffalump Movie

as Mama Heffalump (voice)

2004

Belonging

as Jess Copplestone

2005

2007

Clubland

as Jean

2009

London River

as Elisabeth

1998

1989

The Shawl

as Miss A

2000

RKO 281

as Louella Parsons

2002

Lovely & Amazing

as Jane Marks

2001

On the Nose

as Mrs. Delaney

2002

The Yellow Bird

as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler

1998

In the Winter Dark

as Ida Stubbs

1980

Grown-Ups

as Gloria

2013

1980

2009

Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too

as Mama Heffalump (voice)

2011

My Angel

as Headmistress

2010

The Calling

as Sister Ignatious

2014

Two Men in Town

as Emily Smith

1983

Henry VI Part 1

as Joan La Pucelle

2006

Mysterious Creatures

as Wendy Ainscow

1998

Night Train

as Alice Mooney

1981

Say No to Strangers

as Policewoman

1993

2016

Ethel & Ernest

as Ethel Briggs (voice)

1983

Floating Off

as Janice

1987

Claws

as Sylvia

2004

Piccadilly Jim

as Nesta Pett

1982

King Lear

as Cordelia

2001

Daddy and Them

as Julia Montgomery

2003

Blizzard

as Aunt Millie

2004

A Way of Life

as Annette

-

Strawberry Fields Forever

as Grannie Nellie

2022

Charlotte

as Grossmama (voice)

2025

Dragonfly

as Elsie

2003

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot

as Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)

Production

2007

Clubland

as Writer

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