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My Take
Rita Tushingham burst onto the scene in 1961 with A Taste of Honey, and the haul she collected for it still impresses me: Best Actress at Cannes plus Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes. That is a remarkable debut by any measure. What I appreciate about her run through the British New Wave is how she embodied a more ordinary, unglamorous kind of screen presence at a time when that felt genuinely fresh. She also turned up in Doctor Zhivago, proving she could move between gritty kitchen-sink dramas and sweeping epics. Decades on, she remains an underrated cornerstone of 1960s British cinema to me.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rita Tushingham
- Name (Japanese)
- リタ・トゥシンハム
- Reading
- りた・とぅしんはむ
- Born
- March 14, 1942 (age 84)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Horse
- Origin
- Garston, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Stage actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.