Rita Tushingham

Personal Info

Birthday

March 14, 1942

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Rita Tushingham

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.

Known For

Vera

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Famous Five

Bread

The Marlow Murder Club

The Responder

The Pale Horse

Lady Killers

Filmography

2025
The American Backyard
as Flora
2023
Boudica
as Green Druid
Elicit
as Felicity
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Last Night in Soho
as Peggy Turner
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
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
as Medium
2007
The Hideout
as Paula Hardyn
Puffball
as Molly
2006
Angel Cake
as Millie
2004
Being Julia
as Aunt Carrie
2002
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
Gospel According to Harry
as Myrna
1992
Paper Marriage
as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
1990
Sunday Pursuit
as Alice Fletcher
Hard Days, Hard Nights
as Rita
1989
Resurrected
as Mrs. Deakin
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Alice Toklas
1986
Flying
as Jean Stoller
A Judgment in Stone
as Eunice
1982
Spaghetti House
as Kathy Ceccacci
1978
Mysteries
as Martha Gude
1977
Black Journal
as Maria
Pane, burro e marmellata
as Vera De Virdis
Green Eyes
as Margaret Sheen
1976
Rachel's Man
as Leah
1975
The Human Factor
as Janice
1974
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
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
Doctor Zhivago
as The Girl
The Knack... and How to Get It
as Nancy Jones
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self
1964
Girl with Green Eyes
as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
The Leather Boys
as Dot
1963
A Place to Go
as Catherine Donovan
1961
A Taste of Honey
as Jo