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Brenda Blethyn

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I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.


— Brenda Blethyn


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I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.


— Brenda Blethyn


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I love silence.


— Brenda Blethyn


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I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.


— Brenda Blethyn


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I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.


— Brenda Blethyn


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I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.


— Brenda Blethyn


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In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.


— Brenda Blethyn


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It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.


— Brenda Blethyn


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It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.


— Brenda Blethyn


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Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.


— Brenda Blethyn


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´She has since starred in two further seasons of the mini-series. In Canadian-Irish comedy On the Nose Blethyn played the minor role of the all-disapproving wife of Brendan Delaney played by Robbie Coltrane. Besides Brenda Blethyn played character parts in the BBC adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and the ITV cricketing comedy-drama series Outside Edge based on the play by television writer Richard Harris.

In 1981 Blethyn earned her first critical acclaim for Steaming. Blethyn has since appeared in an eclectic range of films including independent comedies such as Saving Grace (2000) Plots with a View (2002) and Clubland (2007) music-themed films like Little Voice (1998) and Beyond the Sea (2004) and big-budget dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007) the latter of which rank among the biggest commercial successes of her career. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations two SAG Award nominations two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations winning one.

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