Linda Bassett

Actor, Theater Actor

1950 –

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Who is Linda Bassett?

Linda Bassett is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career.

Bassett was born in Kent, England, to a typist mother and a police officer father. Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East. Other roles include Mrs. Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turrill in Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass.

In film she appeared as Mrs. Brenner, the prison official in the 2008 film The Reader and as Cora in Calendar Girls. She was March.

More recently she played Grandma in the BBC Two comedy Grandma's House.

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Born
Feb 4, 1950
Kent
Ethnicity
  • English people
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • University of Leeds

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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