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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

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

2013
The Wee Man

as    Rita Thompson

2012
Outside Bet

as    Martha

2007
Puffball

as    Molly

2007
The Hideout

as    Paula Hardyn

2006
Angel Cake

as    Millie

2000
Out of Depth

as    Margaret Nixon

1996
The Boy from Mercury

as    May Cronin

1995
An Awfully Big Adventure

as    Aunt Lily

1986
Flying

as    Jean Stoller

1978
Mysteries

as    Martha Gude

1975
The Human Factor

as    Janice

1974
Straight On Till Morning

as    Brenda Thompson

1966
The Trap

as    Eve

1965
The Knack... and How to Get It

as    Nancy Jones

1965
Doctor Zhivago

as    The Girl

1964
Girl with Green Eyes

as    Kathleen "Kate" Brady

1963
A Place to Go

as    Catherine Donovan