
Rita Tushingham
Acting
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.
Known for
2025The American Backyard
Flora
2024Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
Miss Clutterbuck
2023Elicit
Felicity
2023Boudica
Green Druid
2021Last Night in Soho
Peggy Turner
2020The Owners
Ellen Huggins
2017My Name Is Lenny
Reenie Joyce
2017Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2013The Wee Man
Rita Thompson
2012Outside Bet
Martha
2011Seamonsters
Rose
2010The Calling
Sister Gertrude
2008Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Medium
2008Broken Lines
Rae
2007Puffball
Molly
2007The Hideout
Paula Hardyn
2004Being Julia
Aunt Carrie
2002The Stretford Wives
Marilyn Massey
2000Out of Depth
Margaret Nixon
1999Swing
Mags Luxford
1997Under the Skin
Mum
1996The Boy from Mercury
May Cronin
1995An Awfully Big Adventure
Aunt Lily
1994Gospel According to Harry
Myrna