Name |
Linda Bassett |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
4-February-1950 |
Place of Birth |
Kent, England |
Famous for |
Acting |
Linda Bassett is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career. Bassett was born in Kent, England to a typist mother and a police officer father. Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East. Other roles include Mrs Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turrill in Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass, and Mrs. Brenner in the American-German film The Reader. She was also in Calendar Girls and played Cora, who was March. Bassett currently plays Grandma in the BBC comedy Grandma's House.