Linda Bassett
Also Known As: لیندا باست
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
Birthday: February 04, 1950
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Gender: Female
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The Hours
Overview: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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East Is East
Overview: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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Calendar Girls
Overview: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Overview: Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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Lounge Act
Overview: Have you ever wondered what happens with your pet when you are not at home? A dog worried about its future, a lazy parrot and an aquarium full of fish with strong religious beliefs, show us what really happens, since they share an uncertain future with the old age of its owner.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Spivs
Overview: Jack, Steve and Goat are East-End Spivs. They spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. It's not until Jack and the others get involved with a guy called Villa, and they are landed with a big payday they have been waiting for, when they realise what a mess they are into. At the back of the lorry they have smuggled goods in, they find illegal immigrants. Most of them escape but they are left with 2 kids; a boy and a girl, and have to decide what to do with them... Are they going to look after them and feed them, clothe them, love them, etc. or are they going to leave them on the streets of East-End London?
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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West Is West
Overview: Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Kinky Boots
Overview: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-30
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The Martins
Overview: Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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A Small Dance
Overview: In the emptiness of the Lincolnshire fens, rural teenager Donna feels trapped in a joyless life with a domineering father and a dull job at the food factory. She grasps at the illusion of affection offered by a passing stranger - and must then cope in lonely terror with pregnancy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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In The Cold Light Of Day
Overview: It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-15
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Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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The English Harem
Overview: Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian restaurateur, Sam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-27
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National Theatre Live: People
Overview: People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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Beautiful People
Overview: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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News Hounds
Overview: Every cub reporter wants a front page 'splash' and the journalists from The Brit, a top-selling daily tabloid, are no exception. They're on the trail of a sensational story and their jobs depend on it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-02
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Loved Up
Overview: Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scene. The girl falls in love with the raver, played splendidly by Ian Hart, but - when fired from her cafe job - she becomes involved with the seedier world of dealing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-21
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Mary Reilly
Overview: A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-23
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Spoonface Steinberg
Overview: Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-30
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The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
Overview: Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-03
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Alive and Kicking
Overview: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Effie Gray
Overview: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Let Him Have It
Overview: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Overview: This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-10
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A Village Affair
Overview: An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-17
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Overview: It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-19
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Cass
Overview: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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Colour Me Kubrick
Overview: The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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Separate Lies
Overview: Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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The Reader
Overview: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Careful How You Go
Overview: A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Skallagrigg
Overview: Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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This Little Life
Overview: A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Oscar and Lucinda
Overview: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Paris by Night
Overview: Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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Haunted
Overview: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Genres: Mystery Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Don Quixote
Overview: Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-09
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