
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 R…
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Filmography
Acting (97)
Movies (61)
Dragonfly
2025as Elsie
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025as Herself / Vera
Charlotte
2022as Grossmama (voice)
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018as Narrator
Ethel & Ernest
2016as Ethel Briggs (voice)
Two Men in Town
2014as Emily Smith
Mary and Martha
2013as Martha
My Angel
2011as Headmistress
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010as Mama Heffalump (voice)
The Calling
2010as Sister Ignatious
London River
2009as Elisabeth
Dead Man Running
2009as Mother
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009as Mama Heffalump (voice)
Atonement
2007as Grace Turner
Clubland
2007as Jean
Mysterious Creatures
2006as Wendy Ainscow
Pride & Prejudice
2005as Mrs. Bennet
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005as Mama Heffalump (voice)
On a Clear Day
2005as Joan
Beyond the Sea
2004as Polly Cassotto
Piccadilly Jim
2004as Nesta Pett
Belonging
2004as Jess Copplestone
A Way of Life
2004as Annette
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003as Aggie
Blizzard
2003as Aunt Millie
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
2003as Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
Pumpkin
2002as Judy Romanoff
Sonny
2002as Jewel
Lovely & Amazing
2002as Jane Marks
Undertaking Betty
2002as Betty Rhys-Jones
The Yellow Bird
2002as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
Daddy and Them
2001as Julia Montgomery
On the Nose
2001as Mrs. Delaney
Saving Grace
2000as Grace Trevethyn
RKO 281
1999as Louella Parsons
Music from Another Room
1998as Grace Swan
Girls' Night
1998as Dawn Wilkinson
Inside the Golden Statue
1998as Self
In the Winter Dark
1998as Ida Stubbs
Little Voice
1998as Mari Hoff
Night Train
1998as Alice Mooney
Remember Me?
1997as Shirley
Secrets & Lies
1996as Cynthia Rose Purley
The Bullion Boys
1993as Gwen
A River Runs Through It
1992as Mrs. Maclean
The Witches
1990as Mrs Jenkins
The Shawl
1989as Miss A
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988as The Storyteller's Wife
Claws
1987as Sylvia
Floating Off
1983as Janice
Henry VI Part 1
1983as Joan La Pucelle
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982as Self
King Lear
1982as Cordelia
Say No to Strangers
1981as Policewoman
Grown-Ups
1980as Gloria
Bedroom Farce
1980as Kate
The Imitation Game
1980Fools
King of the Teds
as Nina
Strawberry Fields Forever
as Grannie Nellie
Television (36)
A Woman of Substance
2026as Older Emma Harle
Kate & Koji
2020as Kate
Playhouse Presents
2012as Nina
Vera
2011as DCI Vera Stanhope
Downton Abbey
2010as Vera
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
War and Peace
2007as Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
The One Show
2006as Self - Guest
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006as Angela Kimble
Between The Sheets
2003as Hazel Delany
V Graham Norton
2002as Self
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Linnie Malcolm
So Graham Norton
1998as Self - Guest
The Frank Skinner Show
1995as Self
Outside Edge
1994
GMTV
1993as Self
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993as Margaret Amir
HBO First Look
1992as self
Maigret
1992
All Good Things
1991as Shirley Frame
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989as Ticki Tocquet
The Labours of Erica
1989
The Storyteller
1988as Storyteller's Wife
This Morning
1988as Self
The Play on One
1988as Miss A
The Mysteries
1985as Mary Magdalene / Mary
Chance in a Million
1984as Alison Little
Who Dares Wins
1984as Various
Dalgliesh
1983as Angela Foley
Yes Minister
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
1979as Carol Hutchins
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975as Pauline
Playhouse
1974as Gloria
The Oscars
1953as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Winner
Crew (1)
Movies (1)
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