Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham is an English actress whose screen debut, in A Taste of Honey (1961), began her film career. Born in the Garston area of Liverpool and raised in Hunt's Cross, she trained at the Shelagh Elliott-Clarke School and later served as an assistant stage manager for the Liverpool Playhouse. Her work in that film earned her the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival and newcomer awards from BAFTA and the Golden Globes. She went on to star in The Leather Boys (1964), Girl with Green Eyes (1964), The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Trap (1966), and The Bed Sitting Room (1969). In the 1960s she also appeared at the Royal Court Theatre with the English Stage Company. Later credits include Last Night in Soho (2021), The Human Factor (1975), and Being Julia (2004). She has also appeared on television, including in In The Flesh in 2014.