Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Anne Blethyn OBE is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television and film, best known for her role in Mike Leighs 1996 drama Secrets amp Lies.

Born in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn was the youngest of the nine children in a Roman Catholic, working class family. Her mother, Louisa Kathleen , was a housewife and former maid, who met Blethyns father, William Charles Bottle around 1922 while working for the same household in Broadstairs, Kent. Bottle had previously worked as a shepherd, and spent six years in British India with the Royal Field Artillery immediately prior to returning home to Broadstairs to become the familys chauffeur. Before WWII, he found work as a mechanic at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton, Bedfordshire.

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