Linda Bassett

Acting

Linda Bassett

Born 1950-02-04 Pluckley, Kent, England, UK 38 films

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 ma…

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Filmography

38 films
Bare Roots poster

AMY reluctantly returns home to the windy clifftop in North Cornwall where she grew up, after a bre…

Bare Roots

★ 0.0 2026

Effie Gray poster

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage brid…

Effie Gray

★ 6.0 2014

West Is West poster

Salford, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family cont…

West Is West

★ 6.4 2010

The Reader poster

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with…

The Reader

★ 7.5 2008

Cass poster

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and…

Cass

★ 5.9 2008