Rita Tushingham

Was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Liverpool John Moores University in 2009.

Since the mid 1990s, she has divided her time between London and Germany, with her partner Hans-Heinrich Ziemann.

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1972

About 1971/2 started filming 'Where Do You Go To From Here; with a Norwegian cast but it was canceled after 3 weeks.

She reached her high-water mark in 1965 when she reprised her stage role in the film version of The Knack. . .

and How to Get It (1965) and played Omar Sharif (Yuri) and Julie Christie (Lara)'s love child in Doctor Zhivago (1965). While The Knack. . .

In 1964, Tushingham starred in Girl with Green Eyes (1964), an adaptation of an Edna O'Brien novel about a young Irish woman's affair with an older man, co-starring Peter Finch and Lynn Redgrave. She next starred as a working class woman married to a biker in Sidney J.

Furie's cult classic The Leather Boys (1964), a film released at a time where Marlon Brando's biker opus The Wild One (1953) was still banned in Britain. She originated the role of Nancy in Ann Jellicoe's "The Knack. . .

In 1963, she followed those up with a Golden Globe Award as most promising newcomer. In the first half of the Sixties, Tushingham became a symbol of the kitchen sink school of theater, which told stories about working class folk, people who had been ignored previously in class conscious England. It was a decade that saw the rise of a generation of actors born and raised outside Metropolitan London who refused to let go of their accents or adopt posh manners. She became one of the faces of the English New Wave.

and How to Get It" at the Royal Court Theatre in 1962.

In 1961, she made her film debut as a teenager in Tony Richardson's adaption of Shelagh Delaney's kitchen sink drama, A Taste of Honey (1961). For her work in that film, she won a BAFTA and the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Royal Court was ground zero for the revolution in the British theater that started there in 1956 with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1959).

Rita Tushingham was born in Liverpool on March 14, 1942, and did her professional apprenticeship with the Liverpool Playhouse.