Rita Tushingham

Q: What awards has Rita Tushingham won?

Rita Tushingham received several awards, including the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for 'A Taste of Honey'. She has also been nominated for BAFTA and Academy Awards throughout her career.

Q: When did Rita Tushingham start her acting career?

Rita Tushingham began her acting career in the early 1960s, with her breakout role in 'A Taste of Honey' in 1961, which garnered her critical acclaim.

Q: Has Rita Tushingham worked in television?

Yes, Rita Tushingham has worked in television, appearing in various series and TV movies, showcasing her versatility as an actress beyond her film career.

Q: What is Rita Tushingham's estimated net worth?

Rita Tushingham's estimated net worth is around $3 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television over several decades.

Q: What defining characteristics does Rita Tushingham have as an actress?

Rita Tushingham is known for her distinctive voice and strong presence on screen. Her acting style combines emotional depth with authenticity, making her performances memorable.

Q: What was Rita Tushingham's first film?

Rita Tushingham's first film was 'A Taste of Honey', released in 1961, where she played the lead role and received widespread recognition.

Q: What recent projects has Rita Tushingham been involved in?

Rita Tushingham appeared in 'Streets of Colour' in 2023, showcasing her enduring talent and presence in contemporary cinema.

Known for

Last Night in Soho (2021)

IMDb 7 / 10

2021 / Drama, Horror / 116 min

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But...

The Owners (2020)

2020 / Comedy, Crime / 92 min

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the...

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

IMDb 7.9 / 10

1965 / Drama, Romance / 199mins

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...

Name

Rita Tushingham

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

14 March 1942, Liverpool, England

Spouses

Peter O'Toole (1978–1980)

Children

1 child, named Kate

Parents

John Tushingham, Margaret Tushingham

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie The American Backyard A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the...	Flora	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	Movie Mystery at the Prospect Hotel The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen...	Miss Clutterbuck	Not rated
2024	TV The Marlow Murder Club Retired archaeologist and crossword setter Judith Potts believes that a brutal murder has taken place in the sleepy town of...	Mrs Eddingham	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	Movie Boudica Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband...	Green Druid	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2023	Movie Elicit About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.	Felicity	Not rated
2022	TV The Responder Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save...	June Carson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Last Night in Soho A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a...	Peggy Turner	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	TV Ridley Road During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life...	Nettie Jones	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie The Owners A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of...	Ellen Huggins	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2020	TV The Pale Horse After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins...	Bella Webb	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2017	Movie Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties 'Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties' is an exploration of the 1960s Western cultural revolution as it ushers in our...	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie My Name Is Lenny The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".	Reenie Joyce	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	TV Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories An anthology for Sky Arts, adapting four standalone, surreal, and dark fantasy short stories by Neil Gaiman.	Effie Corvier	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2014	TV Still Open All Hours Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open...	Annie	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Wee Man The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.	Rita Thompson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2012	Movie Outside Bet Set against the turbulent mid 1980s of money, privatisation, unions and dramatic media evolution: A lifelong group of friends find...	Martha	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2011	Movie Seamonsters Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them...	Rose	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2011	TV Vera A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in...	Audrey Latham	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2010	Movie The Calling Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.	Sister Gertrude	Not rated
2008	Movie Broken Lines After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.	Rae	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2008	Movie Telstar: The Joe Meek Story Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe...	Medium	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Hideout A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she...	Paula Hardyn	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2007	Movie Puffball Architect Liffey moves to the Irish countryside with her American fiancé, Richard, to refurbish a long-abandoned cottage. Their neighbours are...	Molly	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2006	Movie Angel Cake A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven...	Millie	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	TV Angel Cake A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven...	Millie	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2004	TV Agatha Christie's Marple The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During...	Miss Elizabeth Percehouse	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2004	Movie Being Julia Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband...	Aunt Carrie	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	TV New Tricks New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2002	Movie The Stretford Wives The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson –...	Marilyn Massey	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Out of Depth Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker...	Margaret Nixon	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1999	Movie Swing When Martin Luxford leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by...	Mags Luxford	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1998	Movie Spending Nights with Joan Four stages in the life of the aging Joan Crawford. 1954: A beautiful woman of a “certain age” drives alone...	Bette Davis	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1997	Movie Under the Skin Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up...	Mum	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1996	Movie The Boy from Mercury Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's...	May Cronin	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie An Awfully Big Adventure Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool....	Aunt Lily	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1994	TV The World of Hammer The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Gospel According to Harry Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any...	Myrna	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	TV Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Paper Marriage Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance...	Lou, gospodyni Alicji	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1992	TV Love at First Sight	Alice Fletcher	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie The Rapture of Deceit Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1990	Movie Sunday Pursuit Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald,...	Alice Fletcher	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie Hard Days, Hard Nights Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the...	Rita	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1989	Movie Resurrected A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.	Mrs. Deakin	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	Movie The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to...	Alice Toklas	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Flying Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics...	Jean Stoller	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1986	TV Bread Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1...	Celia Higgins	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie A Judgment in Stone An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job...	Eunice	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1982	Movie Spaghetti House Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.	Kathy Ceccacci	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1980	TV Lady Killers Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood...	Charlotte Bryant	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1978	Movie Mysteries In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence...	Martha Gude	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1977	Movie Black Journal A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims...	Maria	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1977	Movie Pane, burro e marmellata Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to...	Vera De Virdis	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1977	Movie Green Eyes Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son...	Margaret Sheen	Not rated
1976	Movie Ragazzo di borgata	Lucia, madre di Ettore	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie Rachel's Man The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait...	Leah	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1975	Movie The Human Factor After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.	Janice	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1974	TV No Strings In BBC sitcom No Strings mismatched Leonara (Rita Tushingham) and Derek (Keith Barron) share a flat. This early Carla Lane...	Unknown character	Not rated
1974	Movie Fischia Il Sesso A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her...	Carol Houston	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1973	Movie Red Riding Hood A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the...	Grace	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1972	Movie Straight On Till Morning Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little...	Brenda Thompson	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1972	Movie Slaughter Day Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about...	Rita	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1969	Movie The Bed Sitting Room In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the...	Penelope	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1969	Movie The Guru Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned...	Jenny	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1968	Movie Diamonds for Breakfast Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution...	Bridget Rafferty	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1967	Movie Smashing Time Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame...	Brenda	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1966	Movie The Trap A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin...	Eve	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1965	Movie Moscow in Madrid When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1965	Movie Doctor Zhivago The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's...	The Girl	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1965	Movie The Knack... and How to Get It A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women....	Nancy Jones	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1965	Movie Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1964	Movie Girl with Green Eyes A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.	Kathleen "Kate" Brady	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1964	Movie The Leather Boys Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other....	Dot	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1963	Movie A Place to Go Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in...	Catherine Donovan	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1963	TV The Human Jungle The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company...	Joy	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1962	TV The Merv Griffin Show	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1961	Movie A Taste of Honey While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves...	Jo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1956	TV Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956...	Grace	TMDB 6.0 / 10
TBA	Movie The Athena Syndrome Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They...	Vivian	Not rated

The American Backyard

2025 / TMDB 6.4

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel

2024

Boudica

2023 / TMDB 5.8

Elicit

2023

Last Night in Soho

2021 / TMDB 7.3

The Owners

2020 / TMDB 5.6

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Got a question about Rita Tushingham?

What are Rita Tushingham's most successful films?

Rita Tushingham's most successful films include 'A Taste of Honey', 'The Knack... and How to Get It', and 'The Leather Boys'. These films established her as a leading actress in the 1960s.

What awards has Rita Tushingham won?

When did Rita Tushingham start her acting career?

Has Rita Tushingham worked in television?

What is Rita Tushingham's estimated net worth?

What defining characteristics does Rita Tushingham have as an actress?

What was Rita Tushingham's first film?

What recent projects has Rita Tushingham been involved in?