Brenda Anne Blethyn OBE (nee Bottle, February 20, 1946) is an English actress, known for her roles in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Secrets & Lies, Little Voice, Outside Edge and Vera.
She was married to Alan Blethyn and is currently married to Michael Mayhew.
Film Roles
- Poor Little Rich Girl The Barbara Hutton Story as Ticki Tocquet (TV Movie)
- The Witches (1990) as Mrs. Jenkins
- A River Runs Through It as Mrs. Maclean
- Secrets & Lies as Cynthia
- Remember Me 1997 as Shirley
- Girls Night as Dawn
- Music From Another Room as Grace
- Night Train as Alice Mooney
- In The Winter Dark as Ida Stubbs
- Little Voice as Mari Hoff
- RKO281 as Louella Parsons (TV Movie)
- Saving Grace as Grace
- Daddy And Them as Julia Montgomery
- Lovely And Amazing as Jane Marks
- On The Nose as Mrs. Delaney
- Pumpkin as Judy Romanoff
- Sonny as Jewel
- The Wild Thornberrys as Mrs. Fairgood
- Undertaking Betty as Betty Rhys-Jones
- The Sleeping Dictionary as Aggie
- Blizzard as Aunt Millie
- Beyond the Sea as Polly Cassotto
- A Way Of Life as Annette
- Piccadilly Jim as Nesta Pett
- On A Clear Day as Joan
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie as Mama Heffalump
- Tigger And Poo And A Musical Too as Mama Heffalump
- Super Duper Super Sleuths as Mama Heffalump
- Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mrs. Bennett
- Introducing The Dwights as Jean 'Jeannie' Dwight
- Atonement as Grace Turner
- London River as Elisabeth Sommers
- The Calling 2009 as Sister Ignatious
- Dead Man Running as Mother
- My Angel as Headmistress
- Two Men In Town as Emily Smith
- Ethel & Ernest as Ethel Briggs
- Charlotte (2021) as Charlotte's grandmother
Television Roles
- Yes, Minister as Joan Littler (1 episode)
- Tales of the Unexpected as Carol Hutchins (1 episode)
- Death Of An Expert Witness as Angela Foley
- The Mysteries as Mary Magdalene (3 episodes)
- That Uncertain Feeling as Jean Lewis
- Chance in a Million as Alison Little
- All Good Things as Shirley Frame
- Maigret as Rose (1 episode)
- Screen One as Gwen (1 episode)
- Outside Edge as Miriam Dervish
- Anne Frank: The Whole Story as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Linnie Malcolm (1 episode)
- The New Adventures of Old Christine as Angela Kimble (1 episode)
- Vera as DCI Vera Stanhope
- Henry Hugglemonster as Ernestine Enormonoster (11 episodes)
- Kate And Koji as Kate