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Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

Birthday: 1942-03-14 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
The American Backyard

as    Flora

2023
Boudica

as    Green Druid

2021
Ridley Road

as    Nettie Jones

2021
Last Night in Soho

as    Peggy Turner

2020
The Pale Horse

as    Bella Webb

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

2010
The Calling

as    Sister Gertrude

2008
Broken Lines

as    Rae

2007
Puffball

as    Molly

2007
The Hideout

as    Paula Hardyn

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
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
Paper Marriage

as    Lou, gospodyni Alicji

1989
Resurrected

as    Mrs. Deakin

1986
A Judgment in Stone

as    Eunice

1986
Flying

as    Jean Stoller