Movies
TV Shows
Actors
Brenda Blethyn
Feb 20, 1946 (79 years old) in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The One Show
The Graham Norton Show
Vera
GMTV
Credits
2025 ·
Dragonfly
as Elsie
2022 ·
Charlotte
as Grossmama (voice)
2020 ·
Kate & Koji
as Kate
2018 ·
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
as Narrator
2016 ·
Ethel & Ernest
as Ethel Briggs (voice)
2014 ·
Two Men in Town
as Emily Smith
2013 ·
Mary and Martha
as Martha
2011 ·
My Angel
as Headmistress
2011 ·
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
as
2011 ·
Vera
as DCI Vera Stanhope
2010 ·
Downton Abbey
as Vera
2010 ·
The Calling
as Sister Ignatious
2009 ·
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
2009 ·
London River
as Elisabeth
2009 ·
Dead Man Running
as Mother
2007 ·
War and Peace
as Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
2007 ·
Clubland
as Jean
2007 ·
Atonement
as Grace Turner
2007 ·
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2006 ·
Mysterious Creatures
as Wendy Ainscow
2006 ·
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006 ·
The New Adventures of Old Christine
as Angela Kimble
2005 ·
Pride & Prejudice
as Mrs. Bennet
2005 ·
On a Clear Day
as Joan
2005 ·
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
2004 ·
Beyond the Sea
as Polly Cassotto
2004 ·
A Way of Life
as Annette
2004 ·
Piccadilly Jim
as Nesta Pett
2004 ·
Belonging
as Jess Copplestone
2003 ·
Between The Sheets
as Hazel Delany
2003 ·
Blizzard
as Aunt Millie
2003 ·
The Sleeping Dictionary
as Aggie
2002 ·
Undertaking Betty
as Betty Rhys-Jones
2002 ·
Sonny
as Jewel
2002 ·
Lovely & Amazing
as Jane Marks
2002 ·
Pumpkin
as Judy Romanoff
2002 ·
The Yellow Bird
as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
2002 ·
V Graham Norton
as Self
2001 ·
Daddy and Them
as Julia Montgomery
2001 ·
On the Nose
as Mrs. Delaney
2001 ·
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
2000 ·
RKO 281
as Louella Parsons
2000 ·
Saving Grace
as Grace Trevethyn
1999 ·
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Linnie Malcolm
1998 ·
Little Voice
as Mari Hoff
1998 ·
In the Winter Dark
as Ida Stubbs
1998 ·
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
1998 ·
Girls' Night
as Dawn Wilkinson
1998 ·
Music from Another Room
as Grace Swan
1998 ·
Inside the Golden Statue
as Self
1998 ·
Night Train
as Alice Mooney
1997 ·
Remember Me?
as
1996 ·
Secrets & Lies
as Cynthia Rose Purley
1995 ·
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
1994 ·
Outside Edge
as
1993 ·
The Buddha of Suburbia
as Margaret Amir
1993 ·
The Bullion Boys
as Gwen
1993 ·
GMTV
as Self
1992 ·
A River Runs Through It
as Mrs. Maclean
1992 ·
Maigret
as
1991 ·
All Good Things
as Shirley Frame
1990 ·
The Witches
as Mrs Jenkins
1989 ·
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Ticki Tocquet
1989 ·
The Shawl
as Miss A
1989 ·
The Labours of Erica
as
1988 ·
This Morning
as Self
1988 ·
The Storyteller
as Storyteller's Wife
1988 ·
The Play on One
as Miss A
1987 ·
Claws
as Sylvia
1985 ·
The Mysteries
as Mary Magdalene / Mary
1984 ·
Chance in a Million
as Alison Little
1983 ·
Floating Off
as Janice
1983 ·
Dalgliesh
as Angela Foley
1983 ·
Henry VI Part 1
as Joan La Pucelle
1982 ·
King Lear
as Cordelia
1982 ·
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self
1981 ·
Say No to Strangers
as
1980 ·
Grown-Ups
as Gloria
1980 ·
Bedroom Farce
as Kate
1980 ·
The Imitation Game
as
1980 ·
Yes Minister
as
1979 ·
Tales of the Unexpected
as Carol Hutchins
1978 ·
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Cordelia
1978 ·
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Joan La Pucelle
1975 ·
Rumpole of the Bailey
as
1953 ·
The Oscars
as Self
1944 ·
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944 ·
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
2025 ·
Fools
as
2025 ·
Strawberry Fields Forever
as Grannie Nellie
2025 ·
King of the Teds
as Nina
