Linda Bassett
Acting
Born 1950-02-04
Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
60 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 nominated
- 2000 Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated East Is East
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Linda Bassett was born in the Kentish village of Pluckley - location for the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991). She was brought up in Pimlico, South London, by her typist mother and police officer father. She became interested in acting as a child when she was frequently taken to see plays in London, most notably at the Old Vic, the famous classical theater. On leaving school, Linda went to work at the Old Vic as an usherette and catering manager, before going to read English at Leeds University. However, she dropped out after a year and became involved in a local drama group which put on plays in community-based locations, such as schools. She regards this as her theatrical schooling, having had no formal training. She made her London stage debut at the age of 32 in 1982 and, in 1991, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although she was a well-regarded stage performer, it was the 1999 film version of the play East Is East (1999) (in which she had been an original stage cast member) which brought her to a larger audience and, throughout the 2000s, she has been a familiar face in a variety of films and television series. In the late 1980s, she returned to live in Pluckley.
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Filmography
Acting
57 credits
Midsomer Murders
Call the Midwife
Casualty
A Touch of Frost
American Playhouse
Heartbeat
Strike
The Reader
Lark Rise to Candleford
Kavanagh Q.C.
Sense and Sensibility
The Hours
Bramwell
Dramarama
dinnerladies
Calendar Girls
Kinky Boots
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Mary Reilly
Grandma's House
Effie Gray
Haunted
Oscar and Lucinda
Cass
Our Mutual Friend
Separate Lies
Spies of Warsaw
East Is East
Don Quixote
The Brief
Far from the Madding Crowd
Colour Me Kubrick
No Bananas
Let Him Have It
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Alive and Kicking
The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby
Paris by Night
Spivs
The Martins
Far from the Madding Crowd
West Is West
Spoonface Steinberg
National Theatre Live: People
Skallagrigg
A Village Affair
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
News Hounds
Beautiful People
Loved Up
This Little Life
In The Cold Light Of Day
A Small Dance
Waiting for the Moon
The English Harem
Bare Roots
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