FrameThrower · Actors · Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn
4 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2007
Born 20 February 1946 · Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
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 Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution of her marriage in 1973.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2007
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Malice Domestic Poirot Award2018
- Theatre World Award1991
How their films are shot
Measured across 447 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brenda takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Brenda takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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