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Linda Bassett (born 4 February 1950) is an English actress. Her television credits include Victoria Wood 's dinnerladies (1999), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–11), Grandma's House (2010–12) and Call the Midwife (2015–present). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1999 film East Is East and for ...
Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Ben Caplan, Daniel Laurie, Emerald Fennell, Victoria ...
BBC Two. Release. 9 August 2010. ( 2010-08-09) –. 24 May 2012. ( 2012-05-24) Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long-term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning in his life.
Budget. £2.5 million. Box office. £4.9 million [ 1] West Is West is a 2010 British comedy-drama film directed by Andy DeEmmony and starring Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Aqib Khan, Ila Arun and Jimi Mistry. A sequel to the 1999 comedy film East Is East, it was written by Ayub Khan-Din and produced by Leslee Udwin for Assassin Films and BBC Films .
Dinnerladies (stylised as dinnerladies) is a British television sitcom created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood. Two series were broadcast on BBC One from 1998 to 2000, with sixteen episodes in total. The programme is repeated on Gold, [ 2] and Drama. The complete series was released on DVD in November 2004.
East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester ), in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George ( Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella ( Linda Bassett ). East Is East is based on Khan-Din's ...
Bassett first met her husband, Courtney B. Vance, during their time studying at Yale’s School of Drama in the 1980s but didn’t spark a romantic connection until 1994. They tied the knot three ...
United States. West Germany. Language. English. Box office. $751,555 [ 1] Waiting for the Moon is a 1987 internationally co-produced drama film starring Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill, Jacques Boudet and Andrew McCarthy. [ 2] The film was written by Mark Magill and directed by Jill Godmilow.