Brenda Blethyn
Known for: Acting
Born: February 20, 1946
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 R…
Known for
Saving Grace
2000
Undertaking Betty
2002
Secrets & Lies
1996
Girls' Night
1998
Little Voice
1998
Belonging
2004
Clubland
2007
London River
2009
In the Winter Dark
1998
The Calling
2010
Claws
1987
Blizzard
2003
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
Sonny
2002
On a Clear Day
2005
The Shawl
1989
Lovely & Amazing
2002
Grown-Ups
1980
Mary and Martha
2013
My Angel
2011
Mysterious Creatures
2006
Night Train
1998
Ethel & Ernest
2016
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
King Lear
1982
Strawberry Fields Forever
King of the Teds
Dragonfly
2025
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Pumpkin
2002
On the Nose
2001
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
Two Men in Town
2014
Henry VI Part 1
1983
The Imitation Game
1980
Floating Off
1983
Daddy and Them
2001
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Sheppey
1980
A River Runs Through It
1992
The Yellow Bird
2002
Say No to Strangers
1981
Fools
The Bullion Boys
1993
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988
Beyond the Sea
2004
Music from Another Room
1998
Bedroom Farce
1980
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Atonement
2007
A Way of Life
2004
The Witches
1990
Dead Man Running
2009
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005
RKO 281
1999
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009
Remember Me?
1997
Charlotte
2022
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
The One Show
2006
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Chance in a Million
1984
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Yes Minister
1980
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006
Between The Sheets
2003
The Storyteller
1988
The Labours of Erica
1989
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
So Graham Norton
1998
Maigret
1992
V Graham Norton
2002
The Oscars
1953
GMTV
1993
War and Peace
2007
Vera
2011
The Mysteries
1985
All Good Things
1991
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
Dalgliesh
1983
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Kate & Koji
2020
Golden Globe Awards
1944
This Morning
1988
Playhouse
1974
Who Dares Wins
1984
A Woman of Substance
2026
HBO First Look
1992
Outside Edge
1994
Playhouse Presents
2012
The Play on One
1988
Screen One
1989
Weekend Playhouse
1984
Death of an Expert Witness
1983