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Rita Tushingham

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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), and Being Julia (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

A Taste of Honey

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Last Night in Soho

As Peggy Turner

Mysteries

As Martha Gude

The Pale Horse

As Bella Webb

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

As Medium

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Growing Up Is No Picnic

From the Yorkshire coalfields to the banlieues of Paris, these films capture adolescence as it truly is: messy, unglamorous, and achingly real.

8 films

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Identity Resilience Coming of Age

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Last Night in Soho

2021 · Peggy Turner

The Pale Horse

2020 · Bella Webb

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

2008 · Medium