Brenda BlethynBrenda Blethyn OBE, born in 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, 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 Theatre World Award and both a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work. After twenty years of hard work on stage and both television and film, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which she has now achieved |