Rita Tushingham
Born: 1942-03-14 in Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The American Backyard as Flora
2024
- The Marlow Murder Club as Mrs Eddingham
- Mystery at the Prospect Hotel as Miss Clutterbuck
2023
- The Famous Five as Miss Clutterback
- Boudica as Green Druid
- Elicit as Felicity
2022
- The Responder as June Carson
2021
- Last Night in Soho as Peggy Turner
- Ridley Road as Nettie Jones
2020
- The Pale Horse as Bella Webb
- The Owners as Ellen Huggins
2017
- My Name Is Lenny as Reenie Joyce
- Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2016
- Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories as Effie Corvier
2014
- Still Open All Hours as Annie
2013
- In the Flesh as Mrs Lamb
- The Wee Man as Rita Thompson
2012
- Outside Bet as Martha
2011
- Vera as Audrey Latham
- Bedlam as Grace
- Seamonsters as Rose
2010
- The Calling as Sister Gertrude
2008
- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story as Medium
- Broken Lines as Rae
2007
- Puffball as Molly
- The Hideout as Paula Hardyn
2006
- Angel Cake as Millie
- Angel Cake as Millie
2004
- New Tricks as Elise
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
- Being Julia as Aunt Carrie
2002
- Helen West as Margaret Mellors
- 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
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Gospel According to Harry as Myrna
1993
1992
- Love at First Sight as Alice Fletcher
- The Rapture of Deceit as Dora
- Paper Marriage as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
1990
- Hard Days, Hard Nights as Rita
- Sunday Pursuit as Alice Fletcher
1989
- Resurrected as Mrs. Deakin
1988
- The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Alice Toklas
1986
- Bread as Celia Higgins
- A Judgment in Stone as Eunice
- Flying as Jean Stoller
1982
- Confessions of Felix Krull as Mrs Twentyman
- Spaghetti House as Kathy Ceccacci
1981
- Seeing Things as Dr Jessica Edwards
1980
- Lady Killers as Charlotte Bryant
1978
- Mysteries as Martha Gude
1977
- ABC Weekend Specials as Mrs Prysselius
- Black Journal as Maria
- Pane, burro e marmellata as Vera De Virdis
- Green Eyes as Margaret Sheen
1976
- Rachel's Man as Leah
- Ragazzo di borgata as Lucia, madre di Ettore
1975
- The Human Factor as Janice
1974
- No Strings as Leonora
- Fischia Il Sesso as Carol Houston
1973
- Red Riding Hood as Grace
1972
- Straight On Till Morning as Brenda Thompson
- Slaughter Day as Rita
1969
- The Bed Sitting Room as Penelope
- The Guru as Jenny
1968
- Diamonds for Breakfast as Bridget Rafferty
1967
- Smashing Time as Brenda
1966
- The Trap as Eve
1965
- Doctor Zhivago as The Girl
- The Knack... and How to Get It as Nancy Jones
- Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean as Self
- Moscow in Madrid as Self
1964
- Girl with Green Eyes as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
- The Leather Boys as Dot
1963
- The Human Jungle as Joy
- A Place to Go as Catherine Donovan
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- Comedy Playhouse as Leonora
- A Taste of Honey as Jo
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Grace