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Brenda Blethyn (born Brenda Ann Bottle 20 February 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent) is a British actress and an OBE. After studying at the Guildford School of Acting, she went on the London stage, where she won the London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1980 for Steaming .She had a reputation as a Shakespearean actress on stage by the time she won two key roles in the BBC's complete works of Shakespeare during the early 1980s, playing Cordelia in King Lear and Joan of Arc in the Henry VI cycle. She did a great deal of British television, including several episodes of Alas Smith & Jones and several series of the sitcom, Chance in a MillionChance in a Million was a British sitcom broadcast in 1984 and 1986 with Simon Callow as the hapless Tom Chance, and Brenda Blethyn as his long-suffering girlfriend Alison Little. The comedy was driven by Tom's tendency to get into trouble as a result of (opposite Simon CallowSimon Philip Hugh Callow (born June 13, 1949) is a highly-regarded British actor of stage, film and television, and the biographer of Orson Welles and Charles Laughton. He was born in London, England, and studied at Queen's University, Belfast before givi), before debuting in films in The WitchesThe Witches is a book for children by Roald Dahl first published in London in 1983 by Jonathan Cape. The book's witches are a well-connected organisation with one goal: the elimination of as many children as possible, ideally all of them. Tired of the wit in 1990Events January January 3 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 7 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apo. But it was her performance in Secrets & LiesSecrets & Lies is a 1996 film which tells the story of a successful Black woman who, while tracing her family history, discovers that her mother is a lower-class white woman. It stars Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The movie was "written" and which garnered her an Academy AwardBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p nomination for Best Actress. In 1998 she was again Oscar nominated, this time for Best Supporting Actress for Little Voice .
Blethyn (she took her former husband's name before becoming a star) has also appeared in A River Runs Through It, and has done voice actor work in The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Blethyn, Brenda
Blethyn, Brenda
