Brenda Blethyn has been a firm favourite on our screens since her early roles dating back to 1980. Four decades later, and she’s still a fixture - thanks in part to her role in the crime series Vera, which ran for 14 years.
Brenda has always done things her own way - not least including her unique living arrangements with her husband - and this applies to how her illustrious career got started, which was a little bit of luck, a little bit of self-belief, and proof that "you can be really good at something you’ve not even tried yet" as she revealed recently.
