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Brenda Blethyn (née Bottle; born 20 February 1946) is an English actress. Known for her character work and versatility, she is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmys. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama in 2003. Blethyn pursued an administrative career before enrolling at the Guildford School of Acting in her late 20s. She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre, gaining attention for her performances in plays such as Benefactors, for which she received an Olivier nomination in 1984. Blethyn made her screen debut in the Mike Leigh television film Grown-Ups (1980), and later won leading roles on the short-run sitcoms Chance in a Million (1984–1986) and The Labours of Erica (1989–1990). She made her feature film debut with a small part in Nicolas Roeg's The Witches (1990), followed by a supporting role in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It (1992). Blethyn experienced a career breakthrough with her portrayal of Cynthia Purley in the 1996 drama Secrets & Lies, for which she earned multiple awards, including Best Actress at Cannes, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She received a second Oscar nomination two years later, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her portrayal of Mari Hoff in Little Voice (1998). Blethyn has since appeared in a range of mainstream and independent features, such as Girls' Night (1998), Saving Grace (2000), Lovely & Amazing (2001), Pumpkin (2002), Beyond the Sea, A Way of Life (both 2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005), and Atonement (2007). Blethyn played Miriam Dervish on the ITV sitcom Outside Edge between 1994 and 1996, receiving a British Comedy Award. For her portrayal of Auguste van Pels in Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. She received a second Emmy nomination, this time for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, for her portrayal of Caroline Cresswell on season ten of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008). She starred as Kate Abbott on the ITV sitcom Kate & Koji from 2020 to 2022. Blethyn has played the title role, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, in the long-running ITV crime drama series Vera since 2011. In 2017, she was named Performer of the Year by the Royal Television Society for this role. Early life Born in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn was the youngest of nine children in a Roman Catholic, working-class family. Her mother, Louisa Kathleen (née Supple; 10 May 1904 – 21 June 1992), was a housewife and former maid, who met Blethyn's father, William Charles Bottle (5 March 1894 – 9 January 1985) in approximately 1922 while working for the same household in Broadstairs, Kent. Bottle had previously worked as a shepherd, and spent six years in British India with the Royal Field Artillery immediately prior to returning home to Broadstairs to become the family's chauffeur. Before WWII, he found work as a mechanic at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton, Bedfordshire. The family lived in poor circumstances at their maternal grandmother's home. It was, however, not until 1944, after an engagement of 20 years and the births of eight children, that the couple wed and moved into a small rented house in Ramsgate. By the time Blethyn was born in 1946, her three eldest siblings, Pam, Ted and Bernard, had already left home. Her parents were the first to introduce Blethyn to the cinema, taking her to the cinema weekly. Blethyn originally trained at technical college and worked as a stenographer and bookkeeper for a bank. Towards the end of her first marriage, she opted to turn her hobby of amateur dramatics to her professional advantage. After studying at the Guildford School of Acting, she went onto the London stage in 1976, performing several seasons at the Royal National Theatre. The shows she participated in during the following three years included Troilus and Cressida, Tamburlaine the Great, The Fruits of Enlightenment opposite Sir Ralph Richardson, Bedroom Farce, The Passion and Strife. Career 1980s After winning the London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress (for Steaming) in 1980, Blethyn made her screen debut, starring in the play Grown Ups as part of the BBC's Playhouse strand. Directed by Mike Leigh, their first collaboration marked the start of a professional relationship which would later earn both of them huge acclaim. Blethyn followed this with roles in Shakespearean adaptations for the BBC, playing Cordelia in King Lear and Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part 1. She also appeared with Robert Bathurst and others in the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series Dial M For Pizza. In the following years, Blethyn expanded her status as a professional stage actress, appearing in productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dalliance, The Beaux' Stratagem and Born Yesterday. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance as Sheila in Benefactors. Meanwhile, she continued with roles on British television, playing opposite Simon Callow as Tom Chance's frustrated fiancée Alison Little in three series of the sitcom Chance in a Million. She also had roles in comedies such as Yes Minister (1981), Who Dares Wins and a variety of roles in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Delve Special alongside Stephen Fry and a role in the school comedy/drama King Street Junior. In 1989, she starred in The Labours of Erica, a sitcom written for her by Chance in a Million writers Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss. Blethyn played Erica Parsons, a single mother approaching her fortieth birthday who realises that life is passing her by. Finding her teenage diary and discovering a list of twelve tasks and ambitions which she had set for herself, Erica sets out to complete them before reaching the milestone. 1990–1996 After 15 years of working in theatre and television, Blethyn made her big screen debut with a small role in 1990s dark fantasy film The Witches. The film, based on the same-titled book by Roald Dahl, co-starred actresses Anjelica Huston and Jane Horrocks. Witches received generally positive reviews, as did Blethyn, whom Craig Butler of All Media Guide considered as a "valuable support" for her performance of the mother, Mrs Jenkins. In 1991, after starring in a play in New York City, Blethyn was recommended to Robert Redford to audition for the soft-spoken mother role in his next project A River Runs Through It (1992). A period drama based on the same-titled 1976 novel by Norman Maclean, also starring Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt, the film revolves around two sons of a Presbyterian minister—one studious and the other rebellious—as they grow up and come of age during the Prohibition era in the United States. Portraying a second generation immigrant of Scottish heritage, Redf.... Discover the Leslie Budewitz popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Leslie Budewitz books.
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