Linda Bassett
Birthday
1950/02/04 (75 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
Also know as
لیندا باست
Biography
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 L...Read more
Acting
(2002) The Hours
as Nelly Boxall
(1999) East Is East
as Ella Khan
(2003) Calendar Girls
as Cora
(2023) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Queenie
(2000) Lounge Act
as ---
(2004) Spivs
as Auntie Vee
(2010) West Is West
as Ella Khan
(2005) Kinky Boots
as Mel
(2001) The Martins
as Anthea
(1991) A Small Dance
as Sandra Matkin
(1994) In The Cold Light Of Day
as Mrs. Loveless
(1987) Waiting for the Moon
as Gertrude Stein
(2005) The English Harem
as Monica Pringle
(1999) Beautiful People
as Sister
(2013) National Theatre Live: People
as Iris
(1990) News Hounds
as Virginia Lyddon
(1995) Loved Up
as Mum
(1996) Mary Reilly
as Mary's Mother
(1998) Spoonface Steinberg
as Mrs. Spud
(1998) The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
as Mary Thornton
(1996) Alive and Kicking
as Doctor
(2014) Effie Gray
as Anna
(1991) Let Him Have It
as Mrs. Miles
(1995) A Village Affair
as Gwen
(1998) Far from the Madding Crowd
as Maryann Money
(2017) Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Dr Yasmine Vondenburg
(2008) Cass
as Doll
(2005) Colour Me Kubrick
as Trolley Lady
(2005) Separate Lies
as Maggie
(2008) The Reader
as Ms. Brenner
(2018) Careful How You Go
as ---
(1994) Skallagrigg
as Susan
(2003) This Little Life
as Nurse Nina
(1997) Oscar and Lucinda
as Betty Stratton
(1989) Paris by Night
as Janet Swanton
(1995) Haunted
as Madame Brontski
(2000) Don Quixote
as Housekeeper
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Eileen Carnack
(1984) The Bill
as ---
(1983) Dramarama
as ---
(1992) A Touch of Frost
as ---
(1992) Heartbeat
as Beryl Palmer
(2008) Lark Rise to Candleford
as Queenie Turrill
(1996) No Bananas
as Ellen Slater
(2010) Grandma's House
as Grandma
(1995) Bramwell
as Maud
(1998) dinnerladies
as Peggy
(2004) The Brief
as Maureen Tyler
(1995) Kavanagh Q.C.
as Miss Haddon QC
(1986) Casualty
as Olwyn Humphries
(1993) Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Eileen
(1998) Our Mutual Friend
as ---
(2008) Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
(2013) Spies of Warsaw
as Malka Rosen
(2012) Call the Midwife
as Phyllis Crane
(2012) The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby
as Mrs. Smike
(2017) Strike
as Joan Nancarrow