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
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs. Eddingham
- 2024 · The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs Eddingham
- 2023 · Boudica as Green Druid
- 2023 · Elicit as Felicity
- 2022 · The Responder as June Carson
- 2021 · Last Night in Soho as Peggy Turner
- 2020 · The Owners as Ellen Huggins
- 2020 · The Pale Horse as Bella Webb
- 2017 · My Name Is Lenny as Reenie Joyce
- 2014 · Still Open All Hours as Annie
- 2013 · The Wee Man as Rita Thompson
- 2012 · Outside Bet as Martha
- 2011 · Vera as Audrey Latham
- 2010 · The Calling as Sister Gertrude
- 2008 · Telstar: The Joe Meek Story as Medium
- 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
- 1994 · Gospel According to Harry as Myrna
- 1992 · Love at First Sight as Alice Fletcher
- 1988 · The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Alice Toklas
- 1986 · Bread as Celia Higgins
- 1986 · A Judgment in Stone as Eunice
- 1982 · Spaghetti House as Kathy Ceccacci
- 1980 · Lady Killers as Charlotte Bryant
- 1977 · Pane, burro e marmellata as Vera De Virdis
- 1972 · Straight On Till Morning as Brenda Thompson
- 1969 · The Guru as Jenny
- 1968 · Diamonds for Breakfast as Bridget Rafferty
- 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
- 1963 · A Place to Go as Catherine Donovan
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Future · Mystery at the Prospect Hotel as Miss Clutterbuck
- 2025 · The American Backyard as Flora
- 2021 · Ridley Road as Nettie Jones
- 2017 · Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties as
- 2016 · Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories as
- 2011 · Seamonsters as Rose
- 2008 · Broken Lines as Rae
- 2007 · The Hideout as Paula Hardyn
- 2007 · Puffball as Molly
- 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)
- 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- 1992 · Paper Marriage as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
- 1992 · The Rapture of Deceit as
- 1990 · Sunday Pursuit as Alice Fletcher
- 1990 · Hard Days, Hard Nights as Rita
- 1989 · Resurrected as Mrs. Deakin
- 1986 · Flying as Jean Stoller
- 1978 · Mysteries as Martha Gude
- 1977 · Black Journal as Maria
- 1977 · Green Eyes as Margaret Sheen
- 1976 · Ragazzo di borgata as Lucia, madre di Ettore
- 1976 · Rachel's Man as Leah
- 1975 · The Human Factor as Janice
- 1974 · No Strings as
- 1974 · Fischia Il Sesso as Carol Houston
- 1973 · Red Riding Hood as Grace
- 1972 · Slaughter Day as Rita
- 1969 · The Bed Sitting Room as Penelope
- 1967 · Smashing Time as Brenda
- 1966 · The Trap as Eve
- 1965 · Moscow in Madrid as Self
- 1964 · Girl with Green Eyes as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
- 1964 · The Leather Boys as Dot
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Joy
- 1961 · A Taste of Honey as Jo
- Future · The Athena Syndrome as Vivian