Brenda Blethyn News

Two fine performances by two veteran actors make up this quietly touching and powerful drama that serves as a wonderful showcase for the talents of Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate.

A newhopeful in the best actress race has just surfaced. Although the independent drama"London River" had successful screenings at Telluride and Toronto and previously won the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival, itstill has no U.S distributor willing to sign on.

There may be early Oscar buzz surrounding Brenda Blethyn's latest role, but the British actress is having none of it.

By all accounts this year's best actress race has been looking awfully thin with few surefire contenders.

Brenda Blethyn to be detective inspector in ITV adaptation of Ann Cleeves's Hidden Depths, set in Northumberland Brenda Blethyn is to star in a new ITV murder mystery based on the novel Hidden Depths by crime writer Ann Cleeves.

The play, originally produced by the National Theatre in its smallest auditorium the Cottesloe , has previously been seen in the West End when that production transferred to the West End's Alwych Theatre.