Born Brenda Ann Bottle, Blethyn is the youngest of nine children of a working-classRoman Catholic family from Ramsgate, Kent, England. Her father, William Charles Bottle, was an engineer, and her mother, Louisa Kathleen, was a homemaker. The family lived in modest circumstances, influenced by after-war rationing in England then. Her late parents were the first to introduce Blethyn to the cinema, as they took their youngest child to the movies weekly. *
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