Biography
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), a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The American Backyard
2025
as Flora
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first ...
Boudica
2023
as Green Druid
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 ...
Elicit
2023
as Felicity
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major...
Last Night in Soho
2021
as Peggy Turner
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...
The Owners
2020
as Ellen Huggins
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...
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
'Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties' is an exploration of the 1960s Western cultural revolution as it ushers in our contemporary society. 'Revoluti...
My Name Is Lenny
2017
as Reenie Joyce
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
The Wee Man
2013
as Rita Thompson
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Outside Bet
2012
as Martha
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Seamonsters
2011
as Rose
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...
The Calling
2010
as Sister Gertrude
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
Broken Lines
2008
as Rae
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
2008
as Medium
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...
The Hideout
2007
as Paula Hardyn
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...
Puffball
2007
as Molly
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
Angel Cake
2006
as Millie
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 ...
Being Julia
2004
as Aunt Carrie
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...
The Stretford Wives
2002
as Marilyn Massey
The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Man...
Out of Depth
2000
as Margaret Nixon
Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker a beating. Lenny however has also been co...
Swing
1999
as Mags Luxford
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...
Spending Nights with Joan
1998
as Bette Davis
A drama directed by Horst Königstein.
Under the Skin
1997
as Mum
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...
The Boy from Mercury
1996
as May Cronin
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...
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
as Aunt Lily
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 ...
Gospel According to Harry
1994
as Myrna
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...
Paper Marriage
1992
as Lou, gospodyni Alicji
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...
The Rapture of Deceit
1992
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...
Sunday Pursuit
1990
as Alice Fletcher
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...
Hard Days, Hard Nights
1990
as Rita
Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the land of the economic miracle with...
Resurrected
1989
as Mrs. Deakin
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Alice Toklas
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...
Flying
1986
as Jean Stoller
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...
A Judgment in Stone
1986
as Eunice
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...
Spaghetti House
1982
as Kathy Ceccacci
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Mysteries
1978
as Martha Gude
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...
Black Journal
1977
as Maria
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...
Pane, burro e marmellata
1977
as Vera De Virdis
Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is br...
Green Eyes
1977
as Margaret Sheen
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
Rachel's Man
1976
as Leah
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...
Ragazzo di borgata
1976
The Human Factor
1975
as Janice
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
Fischia Il Sesso
1974
as Carol Houston
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...
Red Riding Hood
1973
as Grace
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might ...
Straight On Till Morning
1972
as Brenda Thompson
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...
Slaughter Day
1972
as Rita
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...
The Bed Sitting Room
1969
as Penelope
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the no...
The Guru
1969
as Jenny
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.
Diamonds for Breakfast
1968
as Bridget Rafferty
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns t...
Smashing Time
1967
as Brenda
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
The Trap
1966
as Eve
A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
Moscow in Madrid
1965
as Self
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...
Doctor Zhivago
1965
as The Girl
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...
The Knack... and How to Get It
1965
as Nancy Jones
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...
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
1965
as Self
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...
Girl with Green Eyes
1964
as Kathleen "Kate" Brady
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
The Leather Boys
1964
as Dot
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...
A Place to Go
1963
as Catherine Donovan
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...
A Taste of Honey
1961
as Jo
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...
The Athena Syndrome
N/A
as Vivian
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...
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
N/A
as Miss Clutterbuck
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...