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.

Filmography

• 2025The American Backyard — Flora
• 2024Mystery at the Prospect Hotel — Miss Clutterbuck
• The Marlow Murder Club — Mrs Eddingham
• 2023Boudica — Green Druid
• 2023Elicit — Felicity
• The Famous Five — Miss Clutterback
• The Responder — June Carson
• 2021Last Night in Soho — Peggy Turner
• Ridley Road — Nettie Jones
• 2020The Owners — Ellen Huggins
• The Pale Horse — Bella Webb
• 2017My Name Is Lenny — Reenie Joyce
• 2017Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories — Effie Corvier
• Still Open All Hours — Annie
• In the Flesh — Mrs Lamb
• 2013The Wee Man — Rita Thompson
• 2012Outside Bet — Martha
• Bedlam — Grace
• 2011Seamonsters — Rose
• Vera — Audrey Latham
• 2010The Calling — Sister Gertrude
• 2008Broken Lines — Rae
• 2008Telstar: The Joe Meek Story — Medium
• 2007Puffball — Molly
• 2007The Hideout — Paula Hardyn
• 2006Angel Cake — Millie
• Angel Cake — Millie
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
• 2004Being Julia — Aunt Carrie
• New Tricks — Elise
• Helen West — Margaret Mellors
• 2002The Stretford Wives — Marilyn Massey
• 2000Out of Depth — Margaret Nixon
• 1999Swing — Mags Luxford
• 1998Spending Nights with Joan — Bette Davis
• 1997Under the Skin — Mum
• 1996The Boy from Mercury — May Cronin
• 1995An Awfully Big Adventure — Aunt Lily
• 1994Gospel According to Harry — Myrna
• Love at First Sight — Alice Fletcher
• 1992Paper Marriage — Lou, gospodyni Alicji
• 1992The Rapture of Deceit — Dora
• 1990Hard Days, Hard Nights — Rita
• 1990Sunday Pursuit — Alice Fletcher
• 1989Resurrected — Mrs. Deakin
• 1988The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway — Alice Toklas
• 1986A Judgment in Stone — Eunice
• Bread — Celia Higgins
• 1986Flying — Jean Stoller
• Confessions of Felix Krull — Mrs Twentyman
• 1982Spaghetti House — Kathy Ceccacci
• Seeing Things — Dr Jessica Edwards
• Lady Killers — Charlotte Bryant
• 1978Mysteries — Martha Gude
• ABC Weekend Specials — Mrs Prysselius
• 1977Black Journal — Maria
• 1977Green Eyes — Margaret Sheen
• 1977Pane, burro e marmellata — Vera De Virdis
• 1976Rachel's Man — Leah
• 1976Ragazzo di borgata — Lucia, madre di Ettore
• 1975The Human Factor — Janice
• 1974Fischia Il Sesso — Carol Houston
• No Strings — Leonora
• 1973Red Riding Hood — Grace
• 1972Slaughter Day — Rita
• 1972Straight On Till Morning — Brenda Thompson
• 1969The Bed Sitting Room — Penelope
• 1969The Guru — Jenny
• 1968Diamonds for Breakfast — Bridget Rafferty
• 1967Smashing Time — Brenda
• 1966The Trap — Eve
• 1965Doctor Zhivago — The Girl
• 1965The Knack... and How to Get It — Nancy Jones
• 1964Girl with Green Eyes — Kathleen "Kate" Brady
• 1964The Leather Boys — Dot
• 1963A Place to Go — Catherine Donovan
• The Human Jungle — Joy
• 1961A Taste of Honey — Jo
• Comedy Playhouse — Leonora
• Armchair Theatre — Grace

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• 1965Moscow in Madrid — Self
• 1965Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self