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Brenda Blethyn

Acting · Born February 20, 1946 · Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

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.

Movies with Brenda Blethyn

• Pride & Prejudice (2005) — Mrs. Bennet
• Atonement (2007) — Grace Turner
• A River Runs Through It (1992) — Mrs. Maclean
• The Witches (1990) — Mrs Jenkins
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) — Mama Heffalump (voice)
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) — Mrs. Fairgood (voice)
• Secrets & Lies (1996) — Cynthia Rose Purley
• Undertaking Betty (2002) — Betty Rhys-Jones
• The Sleeping Dictionary (2003) — Aggie
• Music from Another Room (1998) — Grace Swan
• Lovely & Amazing (2002) — Jane Marks
• Saving Grace (2000) — Grace Trevethyn

TV shows with Brenda Blethyn

• Vera (2011) — DCI Vera Stanhope
• Dalgliesh (1983) — Angela Foley
• A Woman of Substance (2026) — Older Emma Harte
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989) — Ticki Tocquet
• Outside Edge (1994) — Miriam Dervish
• Between The Sheets (2003) — Hazel Delany
• Chance in a Million (1984) — Alison Little
• Kate & Koji (2020) — Kate Abbott