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Biography of Rita Tushingham - Actress
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Rita Tushingham is an England|English actor|actress. She was born on 14 March 1940 in Liverpool, and started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey in 1961, the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. She had memorable performances in The Leather Boys (1963), The Knack...And How to Get It (1965) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). She was an icon of 1960s Britain, and was popularised again in the 1980s by Morrissey. The Knack (and how to get it) was filmed in the Roger Mayne|Southam Street area of Notting Hill. ==External links== *imdb name|id=0878240|name=Rita Tushingham

