Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn, OBE ( born February 20, 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent as Brenda Ann Bottle) is a British actress. For her dramatic and comedic representations on the stage, for television and in films, she has won several awards.

3.1 theater
3.2 television
3.3 Movies

Life

Brenda Blethyn was the youngest of nine children. The family lived in modest circumstances, but took the parents their child each week to the movies, where Brenda was awakened love for acting and for the film.

Blethyn worked for ten years as a secretary. After separating from her husband, she risked their savings to make her acting hobby into their profession. She attended a drama school in Guildford and went in 1975 to London, where she roles in plays by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, dramatists played the classic modern and contemporary theater for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Blethyns theater successes earned her television roles, first in adaptations of plays, including King Lear and Henry VI. by William Shakespeare. Your comedic talent they could prove through appearances on television series such as Chance in a Million, Yes Minister and Who Dares Wins.

Her breakthrough on the silver screen was in 1996 Mike Leigh film Secrets and Lies, in which she played the role of Cynthia Rose Purley, a white woman from the working class, which is confronted with her now adult daughter black. Blethyns performance was rewarded with a number of awards, including her first Oscar nomination. Since then, Brenda Blethyn has appeared in a number of major films, including 1998 in Little Voice as insensitive mother ( her second Oscar nomination ), 2000 in Saving Grace as a widow who consider themselves wronged by marijuana cultivation on water, and in 2005 as Mrs. Bennet in the Jane Austen adaptation pride and Prejudice.

Brenda Blethyn was awarded in 2003 for her services to the British theater with the OBE.

In 2006, she published her autobiography Mixed Fancies. For her television work, she received including two Emmy nominations: in 2001 as Auguste Van Pels in the TV movie Anne Frank - The true story and 2009 for her guest appearance as Linnie Malcolm or Caroline Cantwell in the series Law & Order: SVU ( episode: Persona ).