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

New Tricks

The Merv Griffin Show

Bread

The Marlow Murder Club

The Human Jungle

The Responder

All Movies (60)

• The American Backyard2025 · as Flora
• Mystery at the Prospect Hotel2024 · as Miss Clutterbuck
• Boudica2023 · as Green Druid
• Elicit2023 · as Felicity
• Last Night in Soho2021 · as Peggy Turner
• The Owners2020 · as Ellen Huggins
• Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties2017
• My Name Is Lenny2017 · as Reenie Joyce
• The Wee Man2013 · as Rita Thompson
• Outside Bet2012 · as Martha
• Seamonsters2011 · as Rose
• The Calling2010 · as Sister Gertrude
• Broken Lines2008 · as Rae
• Telstar: The Joe Meek Story2008 · as Medium
• The Hideout2007 · as Paula Hardyn
• Puffball2007 · as Molly
• Angel Cake2006 · as Millie
• Being Julia2004 · as Aunt Carrie
• The Stretford Wives2002 · as Marilyn Massey
• Out of Depth2000 · as Margaret Nixon
• Swing1999 · as Mags Luxford
• Spending Nights with Joan1998 · as Bette Davis
• Under the Skin1997 · as Mum
• The Boy from Mercury1996 · as May Cronin
• An Awfully Big Adventure1995 · as Aunt Lily
• Gospel According to Harry1994 · as Myrna
• Paper Marriage1992 · as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
• The Rapture of Deceit1992
• Sunday Pursuit1990 · as Alice Fletcher
• Hard Days, Hard Nights1990 · as Rita
• Resurrected1989 · as Mrs. Deakin
• The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway1988 · as Alice Toklas
• Flying1986 · as Jean Stoller
• A Judgment in Stone1986 · as Eunice
• Spaghetti House1982 · as Kathy Ceccacci
• Mysteries1978 · as Martha Gude
• Black Journal1977 · as Maria
• Pane, burro e marmellata1977 · as Vera De Virdis
• Green Eyes1977 · as Margaret Sheen
• Ragazzo di borgata1976 · as Lucia, madre di Ettore
• Rachel's Man1976 · as Leah
• The Human Factor1975 · as Janice
• Fischia Il Sesso1974 · as Carol Houston
• Red Riding Hood1973 · as Grace
• Straight On Till Morning1972 · as Brenda Thompson
• Slaughter Day1972 · as Rita
• The Bed Sitting Room1969 · as Penelope
• The Guru1969 · as Jenny
• Diamonds for Breakfast1968 · as Bridget Rafferty
• Smashing Time1967 · as Brenda
• The Trap1966 · as Eve
• Moscow in Madrid1965 · as Self
• Doctor Zhivago1965 · as The Girl
• The Knack... and How to Get It1965 · as Nancy Jones
• Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean1965 · as Self
• Girl with Green Eyes1964 · as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
• The Leather Boys1964 · as Dot
• A Place to Go1963 · as Catherine Donovan
• A Taste of Honey1961 · as Jo
• The Athena Syndrome— · as Vivian

All TV Shows (19)

• The Marlow Murder Club2024 · as Mrs Eddingham
• The Responder2022 · as June Carson
• Ridley Road2021 · as Nettie Jones
• The Pale Horse2020 · as Bella Webb
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016 · as Effie Corvier
• Still Open All Hours2014 · as Annie
• Vera2011 · as Audrey Latham
• Angel Cake2006 · as Millie
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
• New Tricks2004
• The World of Hammer1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties1993 · as Self
• Love at First Sight1992 · as Alice Fletcher
• Bread1986 · as Celia Higgins
• Lady Killers1980 · as Charlotte Bryant
• No Strings1974
• The Human Jungle1963 · as Joy
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Grace