Acting

Rita Tushingham

Born 1942-03-14 · 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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The American Backyard
as Flora
2025
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
as Miss Clutterbuck
2024
The Marlow Murder Club
as Mrs Eddingham
2024
The Famous Five
as Miss Clutterback
2023
Boudica
as Green Druid
2023
Elicit
as Felicity
2023
The Responder
as June Carson
2022
Last Night in Soho
as Peggy Turner
2021
Ridley Road
as Nettie Jones
2021
The Owners
as Ellen Huggins
2020
The Pale Horse
as Bella Webb
2020
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
My Name Is Lenny
as Reenie Joyce
2017
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
as Effie Corvier
2016
Still Open All Hours
as Annie
2014
In the Flesh
as Mrs Lamb
2013
The Wee Man
as Rita Thompson
2013
Outside Bet
as Martha
2012
Seamonsters
as Rose
2011
Vera
as Audrey Latham
2011
Bedlam
as Grace
2011
The Calling
as Sister Gertrude
2010
Broken Lines
as Rae
2008
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
as Medium
2008
The Hideout
as Paula Hardyn
2007
Puffball
as Molly
2007
Angel Cake
as Millie
2006
Angel Cake
as Millie
2006
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
2004
Being Julia
as Aunt Carrie
2004
New Tricks
as Elise
2004
The Stretford Wives
as Marilyn Massey
2002
Helen West
as Margaret Mellors
2002
Out of Depth
as Margaret Nixon
2000
Swing
as Mags Luxford
1999
Spending Nights with Joan
as Bette Davis
1998
Under the Skin
as Mum
1997
The Boy from Mercury
as May Cronin
1996
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Aunt Lily
1995
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Gospel According to Harry
as Myrna
1994
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
Paper Marriage
as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
1992
Love at First Sight
as Alice Fletcher
1992
The Rapture of Deceit
as Dora
1992
Sunday Pursuit
as Alice Fletcher
1990
Hard Days, Hard Nights
as Rita
1990
Resurrected
as Mrs. Deakin
1989
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Alice Toklas
1988
Flying
as Jean Stoller
1986
Bread
as Celia Higgins
1986
A Judgment in Stone
as Eunice
1986
Spaghetti House
as Kathy Ceccacci
1982
Confessions of Felix Krull
as Mrs Twentyman
1982
Seeing Things
as Dr Jessica Edwards
1981
Lady Killers
as Charlotte Bryant
1980
Mysteries
as Martha Gude
1978
Black Journal
as Maria
1977
Pane, burro e marmellata
as Vera De Virdis
1977
ABC Weekend Specials
as Mrs Prysselius
1977
Green Eyes
as Margaret Sheen
1977
Ragazzo di borgata
as Lucia, madre di Ettore
1976
Rachel's Man
as Leah
1976
The Human Factor
as Janice
1975
No Strings
as Leonora
1974
Fischia Il Sesso
as Carol Houston
1974
Red Riding Hood
as Grace
1973
Straight On Till Morning
as Brenda Thompson
1972
Slaughter Day
as Rita
1972
The Bed Sitting Room
as Penelope
1969
The Guru
as Jenny
1969
Diamonds for Breakfast
as Bridget Rafferty
1968
Smashing Time
as Brenda
1967
The Trap
as Eve
1966
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
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
1965
Girl with Green Eyes
as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
1964
The Leather Boys
as Dot
1964