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Personal Info

Birth date

1950-02-04 (75 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Pluckley, Kent, England, UK

Also known as

لیندا باست

Linda Bassett

Biography

Linda Bassett was born in the Kentish village of Pluckley - location for the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991). She was brought up in Pimlico, South London, by her typist mother and police officer father. She became interested in acting as a child when she was frequently taken to see plays in London, most notably at the Old Vic, the famous classical theater. On leaving school, Linda went to work at the Old Vic as an usherette and catering manager, before going to read English at Leeds University. However, she dropped out after a year and became involved in a local drama group which put on plays in community-based locations, such as schools. She regards this as her theatrical schooling, having had no formal training. She made her London stage debut at the age of 32 in 1982 and, in 1991, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although she was a well-regarded stage performer, it was the 1999 film version of the play East Is East (1999) (in which she had been an original stage cast member) which brought her to a larger audience and, throughout the 2000s, she has been a familiar face in a variety of films and television series. In the late 1980s, she returned to live in Pluckley.

Filmography

Acting

2023The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as Queenie

2018Careful How You Go as Unknown

2017Strike (4 Episodes) as Joan Nancarrow

2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Dr Yasmine Vondenburg

2014Effie Gray as Anna

2013National Theatre Live: People as Iris

2013Spies of Warsaw (2 Episodes) as Malka Rosen

2012The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (5 Episodes) as Mrs. Smike

2012Call the Midwife (79 Episodes) as Phyllis Crane

2010West Is West as Ella Khan

2010Grandma's House (12 Episodes) as Grandma

2008The Reader as Ms. Brenner

2008Lark Rise to Candleford (40 Episodes) as Queenie Turrill

2008Cass as Doll

2008Sense and Sensibility (3 Episodes) as Mrs. Jennings

2005The English Harem as Monica Pringle

2005Colour Me Kubrick as Trolley Lady

2005Separate Lies as Maggie

2005Kinky Boots as Mel

2004Spivs as Auntie Vee

2004The Brief (8 Episodes) as Maureen Tyler

2003Calendar Girls as Cora

2003This Little Life as Nurse Nina

2002The Hours as Nelly Boxall

2001The Martins as Anthea

2000Don Quixote as Housekeeper

2000Lounge Act as Unknown

1999Beautiful People as Sister

1999East Is East as Ella Khan

1998dinnerladies (1 Episode) as Peggy

1998Far from the Madding Crowd as Maryann Money

1998Spoonface Steinberg as Mrs. Spud

1998Our Mutual Friend (4 Episodes) as Unknown

1998The Life and Crimes of William Palmer as Mary Thornton

1997Oscar and Lucinda as Betty Stratton

1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Eileen Carnack

1996Alive and Kicking as Doctor

1996No Bananas (10 Episodes) as Ellen Slater

1996Mary Reilly as Mary's Mother

1995Haunted as Madame Brontski

1995Loved Up as Mum

1995Bramwell (1 Episode) as Maud

1995A Village Affair as Gwen

1995Kavanagh Q.C. (1 Episode) as Miss Haddon QC

1994In The Cold Light Of Day as Mrs. Loveless

1994Skallagrigg as Susan

1993Frank Stubbs Promotes (1 Episode) as Eileen

1992A Touch of Frost (1 Episode) as Unknown

1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Beryl Palmer

1991A Small Dance as Sandra Matkin

1991Let Him Have It as Mrs. Miles

1990News Hounds as Virginia Lyddon

1989Paris by Night as Janet Swanton

1987Waiting for the Moon as Gertrude Stein

1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Olwyn Humphries

1984The Bill (1 Episode) as Unknown

1983Dramarama (1 Episode) as Unknown