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Brenda Blethyn, OBE (on February 20, 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent) is an English Golden Globe winning and Academy Awards-nominated film, stage and television actress.
Blethyn performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from comedies and dramas to historcial films and crimes. She is best known for her films released in the 1990s and 2000s, including Secrets & Lies (1996), Little Voice (1998), Saving Grace (2000), and Pride & Prejudice (2005).
Early life
Born Brenda Ann Bottle, Blethyn is the youngest of nine children of a working-class Roman 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. * More on [ Brenda Blethyn ]
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