Rita Tushingham
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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.408 |
| Birthday | 1942-03-14 |
| Place of Birth | Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
2023
Elicit
0/0
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
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Elicit
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
6.663/60
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
1975
The Human Factor
5.7/20
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
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The Human Factor
1961
A Taste of Honey
6.9/98
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and aba...
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A Taste of Honey
2007
Puffball
3.7/15
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
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Puffball
1969
The Bed Sitting Room
5.9/44
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the no...
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The Bed Sitting Room
1972
Straight On Till Morning
5.8/31
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vi...
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Straight On Till Morning
2007
The Hideout
6.065/54
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years rec...
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The Hideout
1965
The Knack... and How to Get It
5.915/65
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up wi...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
1986
Flying
5.9/14
Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives with...
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Flying
1964
Girl with Green Eyes
6.6/29
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
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Girl with Green Eyes
1965
Moscow in Madrid
0/0
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a lo...
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Moscow in Madrid
1966
The Trap
7.065/31
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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The Trap
1986
A Judgment in Stone
3/3
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy...
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A Judgment in Stone
1997
Under the Skin
6.2/31
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating...
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Under the Skin
2013
The Wee Man
5.611/45
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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The Wee Man
1964
The Leather Boys
6.6/18
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to dr...
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The Leather Boys
1967
Smashing Time
6.2/11
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Smashing Time
1969
The Guru
5/4
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
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The Guru
1978
Mysteries
5.1/7
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, es...
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Mysteries
1974
Fischia Il Sesso
6/1
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant cland...
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Fischia Il Sesso
1963
A Place to Go
6.2/8
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-cl...
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A Place to Go
1977
Pane, burro e marmellata
3.8/8
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Pane, burro e marmellata
2023
Boudica
5.9/148
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies...
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Boudica
2010
The Calling
0/0
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
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The Calling
2023
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
6.8/4
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major...
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
1996
The Boy from Mercury
6/1
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to...
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The Boy from Mercury
1989
Resurrected
5.6/15
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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Resurrected
1982
Spaghetti House
6.2/17
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
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Spaghetti House
1968
Diamonds for Breakfast
5.6/6
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns t...
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Diamonds for Breakfast
1976
Rachel's Man
0/0
The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fa...
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Rachel's Man
1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
0/0
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles i...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
The Athena Syndrome
0/0
Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be teste...
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The Athena Syndrome
1994
Gospel According to Harry
5.2/5
Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get ever...
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Gospel According to Harry
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
0/0
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1999
Swing
5.5/2
When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returnin...
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Swing
1998
Spending Nights with Joan
2/1
A drama directed by Horst Königstein.
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Spending Nights with Joan
1990
Hard Days, Hard Nights
0/0
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
1965
Doctor Zhivago
7.5/1148
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship dur...
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Doctor Zhivago
1977
Green Eyes
0/0
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
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Green Eyes
2011
Seamonsters
3/1
Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart an...
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Seamonsters
2004
Being Julia
6.449/108
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...
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Being Julia
2006
Angel Cake
0/0
A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially...
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Angel Cake
2012
Outside Bet
5.6/4
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
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Outside Bet
2000
Out of Depth
6/1
Based on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth, Out of Depth is a hard hitting, contemporary character based thriller. A g...
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Out of Depth
1977
Black Journal
5.3/15
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow ten...
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Black Journal
1990
Sunday Pursuit
4/1
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new idea...
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Sunday Pursuit
2008
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
5.6/30
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who en...
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
1973
Red Riding Hood
8/1
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might...
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Red Riding Hood
2017
My Name Is Lenny
5.8/21
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
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My Name Is Lenny
1992
Paper Marriage
4/3
Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in n...
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Paper Marriage
2021
Last Night in Soho
7.303/3397
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1...
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Last Night in Soho
1972
Slaughter Day
0/0
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part...
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Slaughter Day
1992
The Rapture of Deceit
0/0
Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential bu...
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The Rapture of Deceit
2020
The Owners
5.62/389
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there com...
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The Owners
1976
Ragazzo di borgata
0/0
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Ragazzo di borgata
2002
The Stretford Wives
0/0
The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Man...
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The Stretford Wives
2024
The American Backyard
6/1
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel...
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The American Backyard
2008
Broken Lines
6/1
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
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Broken Lines
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
0/0
The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer Ca...
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