Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1940, Liverpool, England) is an English actress.
She started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey in 1961, the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. She had memorable performances in The Leather Boys (1963), The Girl with Green Eyes (1964), The Knack...And How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Smashing Time (1967).
She was an icon of 1960s Britain, and was popularised again in the 1980s by her appearance in Carla Lane's Bread.
Clips from her performance in The Leather Boys appear in The Smiths' video for the single, "Girlfriend in a Coma", in 1987. She is also mentioned in the Franz Ferdinand song "L. Wells".
She was in a recent film, Being Julia (2005) as Annette Bening's aunt.
Breast cancer activist
Tushingham became a breast cancer activist when her 33-year-old daughter, Aisha Bicknell, was diagnosed with the disease in April, 2005. [1] She and her daughter support Cancer Research UK's Relay for Life and have given a number interviews for raising breast cancer awareness.[2]
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