Linda Bassett

Linda Bassett (born 4 February 1950) is an award-winning English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career. She is married to the journalist Julian Foster. Bassett was born in Kent, England to a typist mother and a policeman father. Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East. Other roles include Mrs Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Q... more

Linda Bassett (born 4 February 1950) is an award-winning English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career. She is married to the journalist Julian Foster. Bassett was born in Kent, England to a typist mother and a policeman father. Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East. Other roles include Mrs Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turill in Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass, and Mrs. Brenner in the American-German film The Reader. She was also in Calendar Girls and played Cora, who was March. less