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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 4, 1950
Place of Birth
Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
Also Known As
- لیندا باست
Linda Bassett
0.8 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
6.6
Queenie
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023
8.0
Careful How You Go
2018
7.1
Joan Nancarrow
Strike
2017
6.5
Dr Yasmine Vondenburg
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017
5.9
Anna
Effie Gray
2014
8.0
Iris
National Theatre Live: People
2013
6.6
Malka Rosen
Spies of Warsaw
2013
0.0
Mrs. Smike
The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby
2012
7.5
Phyllis Crane
Call the Midwife
2012
6.4
Ella Khan
West Is West
2010
Credits
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Queenie
2023
6.6
Careful How You Go
2018
8.0
Strike
as Joan Nancarrow
2017
7.1
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Dr Yasmine Vondenburg
2017
6.5
Effie Gray
as Anna
2014
5.9
National Theatre Live: People
as Iris
2013
8.0
Spies of Warsaw
as Malka Rosen
2013
6.6
The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby
as Mrs. Smike
2012
0.0
Call the Midwife
as Phyllis Crane
2012
7.5
West Is West
as Ella Khan
2010
6.4
Grandma's House
as Grandma
2010
6.6
The Reader
as Ms. Brenner
2008
7.5
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Queenie Turrill
2008
8.3
Cass
as Doll
2008
6.0
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
2008
7.6
🎬
The English Harem
as Monica Pringle
2005
3.3
Colour Me Kubrick
as Trolley Lady
2005
5.6
Separate Lies
as Maggie
2005
5.8
Kinky Boots
as Mel
2005
6.7
Spivs
as Auntie Vee
2004
4.5
The Brief
as Maureen Tyler
2004
6.5
Calendar Girls
as Cora
2003
6.5
This Little Life
as Nurse Nina
2003
0.0
The Hours
as Nelly Boxall
2002
7.3
The Martins
as Anthea
2001
5.3
Don Quixote
as Housekeeper
2000
6.2
🎬
Lounge Act
2000
0.0
Beautiful People
as Sister
1999
6.0
East Is East
as Ella Khan
1999
6.5
dinnerladies
as Peggy
1998
7.4
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Maryann Money
1998
6.2
Spoonface Steinberg
as Mrs. Spud
1998
0.0
Our Mutual Friend
1998
7.8
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
as Mary Thornton
1998
9.5
Oscar and Lucinda
as Betty Stratton
1997
6.4
Midsomer Murders
as Eileen Carnack
1997
7.5
Alive and Kicking
as Doctor
1996
4.9
No Bananas
as Ellen Slater
1996
5.0
Mary Reilly
as Mary's Mother
1996
5.8
Haunted
as Madame Brontski
1995
6.1
Loved Up
as Mum
1995
5.8
Bramwell
as Maud
1995
4.2
A Village Affair
as Gwen
1995
5.0
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Miss Haddon QC
1995
7.0
In The Cold Light Of Day
as Mrs. Loveless
1994
0.0
Skallagrigg
as Susan
1994
1.0
🎬
Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Eileen
1993
6.0
A Touch of Frost
1992
7.5
Heartbeat
as Beryl Palmer
1992
7.0
A Small Dance
as Sandra Matkin
1991
0.0
Let Him Have It
as Mrs. Miles
1991
6.6
News Hounds
as Virginia Lyddon
1990
0.0
Paris by Night
as Janet Swanton
1989
4.5
Waiting for the Moon
as Gertrude Stein
1987
5.0
Casualty
as Olwyn Humphries
1986
6.1
The Bill
1984
6.7
Dramarama
1983
6.7