Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942; erroneously reported by some sources as 1940, Liverpool, England) is a noted British actress.
She started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey (1961), the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. Other performances included The Leather Boys (1962), Girl with Green Eyes (1963), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965),...
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Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942; erroneously reported by some sources as 1940, Liverpool, England) is a noted British actress.
She started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey (1961), the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. Other performances included The Leather Boys (1962), Girl with Green Eyes (1963), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Trap (1966), Smashing Time (1967), The Bed Sitting Room (1969) and The 'Human' Factor (1975).
She was an icon of 1960s Britain, and was popularised again in the 1980s by her appearance in Carla Lane's Bread.
In 1989 she was Mrs Deakin in Resurrected, appearing with David Thewlis and Tom Bell.
She was last seen in the film Being Julia (2005) and in "The Sittaford Mystery", a 2006 episode of Marple.
In 2008 she was reported to be starring in a number of films due for release including a mystery thriller The Hideout, a romantic drama Broken...
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