Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham ( born March 14, 1942 in Liverpool, England) is a British actress.
Life
Rita Tushingham was already active in the school play their Convents and then attended the drama classes at the Liverpool Playhouse. She had made her professional stage debut in 1960 in her hometown. In 1961 she made her film debut with the film A Taste of Honey, directed by Tony Richardson, the same earned her the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962 as well as the Golden Globe and British Film Academy Award for Best Young Actress. Especially in the 1960s, she celebrated her greatest success and was one of the icons of British cinema that time. While she appeared in a supporting role in Doctor Zhivago (1965 ), she impressed a year later as a cry in the wind on the side of Oliver Reed in a leading role. James Ivory took advantage of their image considered as representative of the "Swinging London " for his film, The Guru (1969 ), the developments of the British music scene.
In the 1970s, Tushingham played in several Italian comedies. In her first marriage she was married to Terence William Bicknell. With her second husband, photographer and director Ousama Rawi she lived 20 years in Canada, where she shared the thriller A Judgement in Stone turned in 1986. The director Horst Königstein it occupied in 1990 in the German TV film Hard Days, Hard Nights again after their 60s image.
In the 1990s, Tushingham lived partly in England and Germany.