
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.
Movie Appearances

Elicit
as Felicity
2023

An Awfully Big Adventure
as Aunt Lily
1995

The Human Factor
as Janice
1975

A Taste of Honey
as Jo
1961

Puffball
as Molly
2007

The Bed Sitting Room
as Penelope
1969

Straight On Till Morning
as Brenda Thompson
1972

The Hideout
as Paula Hardyn
2007

The Knack... and How to Get It
as Nancy Jones
1965

Flying
as Jean Stoller
1986

Girl with Green Eyes
as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
1964

Moscow in Madrid
as Self
1965

The Trap
as Eve
1966

A Judgment in Stone
as Eunice
1986

Under the Skin
as Mum
1997

The Wee Man
as Rita Thompson
2013

The Leather Boys
as Dot
1964

Smashing Time
as Brenda
1967

The Guru
as Jenny
1969

Mysteries
as Martha Gude
1978
TV Appearances

The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962

New Tricks
2004
No Strings
1974

Vera
as Audrey Latham
2011

Ridley Road
as Nettie Jones
2021

Love at First Sight
as Alice Fletcher
1992

The Responder
as June Carson
2022

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016

The Human Jungle
as Joy
1963

Agatha Christie's Marple
as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
2004

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993

Bread
as Celia Higgins
1986