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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Credits
- 2025 · The American Backyard as Flora
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs. Eddingham
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs Eddingham
- 2023 · Boudica as Green Druid
- 2021 · Last Night in Soho as Peggy Turner
- 2020 · The Owners as Ellen Huggins
- 2017 · My Name Is Lenny as Reenie Joyce
- 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
- 2007 · The Hideout as Paula Hardyn
- 2007 · Puffball as Molly
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
- 2004 · Being Julia as Aunt Carrie
- 2004 · New Tricks as
- 1997 · Under the Skin as Mum
- 1996 · The Boy from Mercury as May Cronin
- 1995 · An Awfully Big Adventure as Aunt Lily
- 1992 · The Rapture of Deceit as
- 1990 · Sunday Pursuit as Alice Fletcher
- 1989 · Resurrected as Mrs. Deakin
- 1986 · Flying as Jean Stoller
- 1986 · Bread as Celia Higgins
- 1982 · Spaghetti House as Kathy Ceccacci
- 1978 · Mysteries as Martha Gude
- 1977 · Pane, burro e marmellata as Vera De Virdis
- 1977 · Green Eyes as Margaret Sheen
- 1975 · The Human Factor as Janice
- 1972 · Straight On Till Morning as Brenda Thompson
- 1969 · The Bed Sitting Room as Penelope
- 1969 · The Guru as Jenny
- 1967 · Smashing Time as Brenda
- 1965 · Doctor Zhivago as The Girl
- 1965 · The Knack... and How to Get It as Nancy Jones
- 1964 · The Leather Boys as Dot
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Future · Mystery at the Prospect Hotel as Miss Clutterbuck
- 2023 · Elicit as Felicity
- 2022 · The Responder as June Carson
- 2021 · Ridley Road as Nettie Jones
- 2020 · The Pale Horse as Bella Webb
- 2017 · Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties as
- 2016 · Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories as
- 2014 · Still Open All Hours as Annie
- 2008 · Telstar: The Joe Meek Story as Medium
- 2006 · Angel Cake as Millie
- 2006 · Angel Cake as Millie
- 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
- 1994 · The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 1990 · Hard Days, Hard Nights as Rita
- 1988 · The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Alice Toklas
- 1986 · A Judgment in Stone as Eunice
- 1980 · Lady Killers as Charlotte Bryant
- 1977 · Black Journal as Maria
- 1976 · Ragazzo di borgata as Lucia, madre di Ettore
- 1976 · Rachel's Man as Leah
- 1974 · No Strings as
- 1974 · Fischia Il Sesso as Carol Houston
- 1973 · Red Riding Hood as Grace
- 1972 · Slaughter Day as Rita
- 1968 · Diamonds for Breakfast as Bridget Rafferty
- 1966 · The Trap as Eve
- 1965 · Moscow in Madrid as Self
- 1965 · Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean as Self
- 1964 · Girl with Green Eyes as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
- 1963 · A Place to Go as Catherine Donovan
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Joy
- 1961 · A Taste of Honey as Jo
- Future · The Athena Syndrome as Vivian