Brenda Blethyn Filmography

Introducing the Dwights

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth, Frankie J. Holden, Richard Wilson, Rebecca Gibney

Synopsis: An already-unstable household becomes a virtual battle zone when the son of a risqué comedienne and a has-been singer finds mom meddling in his love life in director Cherie Nolan's dysfunctional romantic comedy. Twenty-one year old Tim Dwight (Khan Chittenden) comes from a peculiar family; his Read More

On a Clear Day

Actors: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Billy Boyd

Synopsis: A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and technology makes his position unnecessary. While Frank Read More

Mysterious Creatures

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Rebekah Staton

Pride & Prejudice

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

Undertaking Betty

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Christopher Walken, Naomi Watts, Lee Evans, Robert Pugh

Synopsis: Directed by Nick Hurran, Undertaking Betty revolves around the competitive world of undertaking in the Welsh countryside. One of the most respected names in the biz -- Plotz Funeral Homes -- is directed by Boris Plotz (Alfred Molina), whose youthful dreams consisted of two decidedly cheerier Read More

Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Actors: Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Nikita Hopkins, Kath Soucie, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen

Synopsis: A.A. Milne's famous stuffed bear and his pals learn something about acceptance and understanding when a new animal comes to the Hundred Acre Woods in this animated comedy. When Winnie the Pooh (voice of Jim Cummings) hears a strange noise in the woods, he and his friends are convinced that the Read More

Piccadilly Jim

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Austin Pendleton, Tom Wilkinson, Allison Janney, Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's efforts to obtain a peerage with his Read More

Beyond the Sea

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis: Kevin Spacey serves as both director and star for this biopic based on the life and career of legendary entertainer Bobby Darin, which moves back and forth between his childhood and adult selves to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Born Bobby Cassotto and raised in the Bronx, young Bobby Read More

In the Winter Dark

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto

Synopsis: James Bogle directed this Australian psychological thriller adapted (by Bogle and Peter Rasmussen) from the novel by Tim Winton. Living on their farm for 30 years, Maurice (Ray Barrett) and Ida Stubbs (Brenda Blethyn) have never recovered from the loss of their child, smothered by a cat. Elsewhere Read More

A Way of Life

Actors: Stephanie James, Nathan Jones, Garry Sheppeard, Dean Wong, Sara Gregory, Oliver Haden, Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis: A single teenage mother operating along the margins of society unleashes a bitter torrent of anger on her unsuspecting neighbors in first-time director Amma Assante's seething psychological drama. Leigh-Ann (Stephanie James) may seem like a victim to some, but in between paying the bills, dealing Read More

Belonging

Synopsis: A once-contented wife struggles to maintain her dignity when her husband abandons her for a younger woman in longtime television director Christopher Menaul's adaptation of Stevie Davies' acclaimed novel. For years, Jess (Brenda Blethlyn) and her husband, Jacob (Kevin Whately), shared a loving Read More

Blizzard

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak, Brittany Bristow, Zoë Warner

Synopsis: A young girl still saddened by the decision of her best friend's family to move away learns an important life lesson about change from her eccentric aunt in this family-friendly holiday tale directed by LeVar Burton and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Pollak, Christopher Plummer, and Zoë Warner. Read More

Sonny

Actors: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Film superstar Nicolas Cage's directing debut, Sonny follows a very unconventional family as they struggle to overcome personal and financial adversity. Young Sonny (James Franco) returns home to New Orleans from Army service to find his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), a prostitute, in dire Read More

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Actors: Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator Cathy Malkasian with a screenplay by Kate Boutilier (writer of Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris). The main character is 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry (voice of Lacey Chabert), a Read More

Lovely & Amazing

Actors: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin, Jake Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Nicole Holofcener, writer/director of the critically acclaimed Walking and Talking, shifts her focus from New York to Los Angeles for her second feature, Lovely & Amazing. Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies) is a middle-aged woman who's about to undergo liposuction. She has three Read More

Pumpkin

Actors: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are Read More

The Sleeping Dictionary

Actors: Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request of the British government. In following with Read More

The Yellow Bird

Daddy & Them

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Jeff Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Diane Ladd, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Walton Goggins, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More

Anne Frank

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Brenda Blethyn, Tatjana Blacher, Joachim Krol

Synopsis: Anne Frank was an ordinary girl forced by circumstances to bear witness to the most extraordinary tragedy of the 20th century, and the diary she left behind became one of the best known and most affecting documents of those who struggled to survive the Holocaust under Nazi occupation during World Read More

On The Nose

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Brenda Blethyn, Dan Aykroyd, Eanna Mac Liam, Tony Briggs

Synopsis: A luckless gambler finally finds the secret to picking winners at the track -- a head in a jar -- in this comedy. Brendan (Robbie Coltrane) is a janitor at a university who has a fondness for gambling, especially betting on horse races. However, he doesn't have much skill at it, and poorly Read More

Saving Grace

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Forman

Synopsis: Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband Read More

RKO 281

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: When RKO Pictures began work on production number 281, no one could have imagined that they were making perhaps the greatest American film of all time. But the moment Orson Welles (played by Liev Schreiber) announced that he intended to make a film based on the life of tyranical multi-millionaire Read More

Chance in a Million

Little Voice

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: Based on Jim Cartright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, this screen adaptation directed by Mark Herman is an underdog film about an underdog girl named Little Voice (or LV for short). LV (Jane Horrocks from Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet who does all her own singing) is a shy, mousy woman Read More

Girls' Night

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Julie Walters, Kris Kristofferson, James Gaddas, George Costigan

Synopsis: In the British North Country, in-laws Jackie (Julie Walters) and Dawn (Brenda Blethyn) work together on an assembly line at an electronics firm. Dawn is married to Jackie's brother Steve (George Costigan). Jackie's marriage is collapsing, and she has a secret affair with a bingo club run by Paul (James Gaddas Read More

Music From Another Room

Actors: Bruce Jarchow, Martha Plimpton, Jennifer Tilly, Brenda Blethyn, Jude Law, Gretchen Mol

Synopsis: What do you do when you've loved someone literally all their life? As Music From Another Room opens, five-year-old Danny is with his father, a U.S. Army doctor, when Dad is faced with an emergency. It seems Grace Swan (Brenda Blethyn), an old friend of the family, is in the last stages of labor Read More

Remember Me?

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Rik Mayall, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Blethyn, James Fleet

Synopsis: This comedy of manners from playwright Michael Frayn, author of Noises Off (1992), was based on his teleplay for "Jamie, On a Flying Visit," a 1968 episode of the legendary BBC television series The Wednesday Play (1964-70). Middle class couple Ian (Rik Mayall) and insurance adjuster Lorna (Imelda Staunton Read More

Secrets and Lies

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook

Synopsis: A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a working-class British woman whose life has been a long series of painful disappointments. She's single with no romantic prospects and a dead-end job Read More

Outside Edge [TV Series]

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Josie Lawrence

Synopsis: Produced for Central Television, the British sitcom Outside Edge was based on Richard Harris' 1982 TV play of the same name. The stories dealt with the relationship between two couples, united only by the fact that both played for a Sunday League Cricket Team. Wealthy Roger Dervish was imperious Read More

The Buddha of Suburbia

Actors: Roshan Seth, Naveen Andrews, Susan Fleetwood, Steven Mackintosh, Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis: In the new tradition of "Tales of the City," this long, complex British satire profiles a decade in the life of a British family. The story opens in a South London suburb where main protagonist Karim Amir lives with his Indian father, Haroon, and his English mother during the 1970's. Haroon is a Read More

The Bullion Boys

A River Runs Through It

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

The Witches

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: In Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, a young boy is vacationing at the seaside with his grandmother when he discovers that the hotel he is staying at is hosting a convention of witches. Eavesdropping on the witches, he learns that the Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) Read More

Death of an Expert Witness

Actors: Roy Marsden

Synopsis: Roy Marsden stars as Commander Adam Dalgliesh in this made-for-television adaptation of the novel by P.D. James. Edwin Lorrimer (Geoffrey Palmer) is a noted forensic scientist who is often called upon to testify in court proceedings as an expert witness, and when he dies as a result of foul play Read More

King Lear

Actors: Michael Hordern, Anton Lesser

Grown Ups

Actors: Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis: Made for British television by filmmaker Mike Leigh, Grown Ups is a detailed slice-of-life drama about a married, working-class couple in Canterbury, England. The film begins with the young couple, Dick and Mandy, moving to a new, rather small home and becoming neighbors to Mr. Butcher, an Read More