Rita Tushingham
March 14, 1942 (83 years old) in Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), and Being Julia (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2025 · The American Backyard as Flora
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs. Eddingham
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs Eddingham
- 2023 · The Famous Five as Miss Clutterbuck
- 2023 · Boudica as Green Druid
- 2023 · Elicit as Felicity
- 2023 · The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Responder as June Carson
- 2021 · Last Night in Soho as Peggy Turner
- 2021 · Ridley Road as Nettie Jones
- 2020 · The Owners as Ellen Huggins
- 2020 · The Pale Horse as Bella Webb
- 2017 · Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties as
- 2017 · My Name Is Lenny as Reenie Joyce
- 2016 · Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories as
- 2014 · Still Open All Hours as Annie
- 2013 · The Wee Man as Rita Thompson
- 2012 · Outside Bet as Martha
- 2011 · Seamonsters as Rose
- 2011 · Vera as Audrey Latham
- 2010 · The Calling as Sister Gertrude
- 2008 · Broken Lines as Rae
- 2008 · Telstar: The Joe Meek Story as Medium
- 2007 · The Hideout as Paula Hardyn
- 2007 · Puffball as Molly
- 2006 · Angel Cake as Millie
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
- 2004 · Being Julia as Aunt Carrie
- 2004 · New Tricks as
- 2002 · The Stretford Wives as Marilyn Massey
- 2000 · Out of Depth as Margaret Nixon
- 1999 · Swing as Mags Luxford
- 1998 · Spending Nights with Joan as Bette Davis
- 1997 · Under the Skin as Mum
- 1996 · The Boy from Mercury as May Cronin
- 1995 · An Awfully Big Adventure as Aunt Lily
- 1994 · Gospel According to Harry as Myrna
- 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- 1992 · Paper Marriage as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
- 1992 · Love at First Sight as Alice Fletcher
- 1992 · The Rapture of Deceit as
- 1990 · Sunday Pursuit as Alice Fletcher
- 1990 · Hard Days, Hard Nights as Rita
- 1989 · Resurrected as Mrs. Deakin
- 1988 · The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Alice Toklas
- 1986 · Flying as Jean Stoller
- 1986 · Bread as Celia Higgins
- 1986 · A Judgment in Stone as Eunice
- 1982 · Spaghetti House as Kathy Ceccacci
- 1980 · Lady Killers as Charlotte Bryant
- 1978 · Mysteries as Martha Gude
- 1977 · Black Journal as Maria
- 1977 · Pane, burro e marmellata as Vera De Virdis
- 1977 · Green Eyes as Margaret Sheen
- 1976 · Rachel's Man as Leah
- 1976 · Ragazzo di borgata as
- 1975 · The Human Factor as Janice
- 1974 · No Strings as
- 1974 · Fischia Il Sesso as Carol Houston
- 1973 · Red Riding Hood as Grace
- 1972 · Straight On Till Morning as Brenda Thompson
- 1972 · Slaughter Day as Rita
- 1969 · The Bed Sitting Room as Penelope
- 1969 · The Guru as Jenny
- 1968 · Diamonds for Breakfast as Bridget Rafferty
- 1967 · Smashing Time as Brenda
- 1966 · The Trap as Eve
- 1965 · Moscow in Madrid as Self
- 1965 · Doctor Zhivago as The Girl
- 1965 · The Knack... and How to Get It as Nancy Jones
- 1965 · Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean as Self
- 1964 · Girl with Green Eyes as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
- 1964 · The Leather Boys as Dot
- 1963 · A Place to Go as Catherine Donovan
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Joy
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1961 · A Taste of Honey as Jo
- Future · Mystery at the Prospect Hotel as Miss Clutterbuck
- Future · The Athena Syndrome as Vivian