Linda Bassett
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| Born | Linda Bassett 4 February 1950 Kent, England |
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| Occupation | Actress | ||||||
| Years active | 1987-present | ||||||
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Linda Bassett (born 4 February 1950) is an award-winning English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career.
Bassett was born in Kent, England to a typist mother and a policeman father.[1] Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East. Other roles include Mrs Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turill in Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass, and Mrs Brenner in the in-production American-German film The Reader.
