Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Today, February 20th , is the 74th birthday  of  two-time Academy Award Award Nominee   Brenda Blethyn , best known to us  P&P fans  as  Mrs. Bennet , the five  Bennet girls '  mother  in the 2005  Pride & Prejudice  film. After twenty years of hard work on stage and both television and films, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which  Brenda Blethyn  has now achieved. Recently seen on ITV's Vera series, which just finished its 10th season  and will be filming its 11th season in April! Born in (February 20th) 1946 in Ramsgate in Kent, England, she started her career at British Rail in the 1960s. Saving money during her time there, she took a risk and enrolled herself at the at The Guildford School of Acting in Guildford, Surrey, England and then left her British Rail years behind. Her risk had paid off, by the mid-1970s she was working on stage, eventually joining the National Theatre Company in 1975. ( Read mo

The teaser trailer has been released late January for HBO's upcoming thriller and limited series, The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman , Hugh Grant , Edgar Ramirez , and Donald Sutherland . From writer David E. Kelley ( Big Little Lies ) and director Susanne Bier ( The Night Manager ), the new limited series focuses on Nicole Kidman’s Grace Fraser, a successful therapist, and her devoted husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), and their young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. A chasm opens in Grace's seemingly perfect life: a violent death, a missing spouse and a chain of terrible revelations. Donald Sutherland plays Grace’s father Franklin Reinhardt: a retired financier and loving grandfather, tasked with protecting his family when turbulent revelations come to light. The Undoing is set to premiere in May. Watch The Undoing teaser trailer, read more info. and more below...