
Acting
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 Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn pursued an administrative career until her early 30s before enrolling in the …

Dragonfly
as Elsie

Vera, Farewell Pet
as Herself / Vera

Charlotte
as Grossmama (voice)

Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
as Narrator

Ethel & Ernest
as Ethel Briggs (voice)

Two Men in Town
as Emily Smith

Mary and Martha
as Martha

My Angel
as Headmistress
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine

The Calling
as Sister Ignatious

A Woman of Substance
as Older Emma Harle · 8 ep.

Kate & Koji
as Kate · 12 ep.

Playhouse Presents
as Nina · 1 ep.

Vera
as DCI Vera Stanhope · 56 ep.

The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 1 ep.

War and Peace
as Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa · 4 ep.

The One Show
as Self - Guest · 1 ep.

The New Adventures of Old Christine
as Angela Kimble · 1 ep.

Between The Sheets
as Hazel Delany · 6 ep.

V Graham Norton
as Self · 1 ep.
A River Runs Through It
1992