Highest rated movie: Sweeney! (1977)
Lowest rated movie: Stand up, Virgin Soldiers (1977)
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Movies starring Lynda Bellingham have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 52%.
Sweeney! - released in 1977 - is Lynda Bellingham's highest rated movie, with a score of 58% based on 6 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lynda Bellingham is Stand up, Virgin Soldiers - released in 1977 - with a score of 46% based on 1 reviews.
Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum".
During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about how her career turned out, summarising its trajectory thus on her website: "Arrived in London at the Central School [for Speech and Drama] in 1966 and never looked back. I had a ball!"
Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth's damned spot, left an indelible mark. "In many ways I was very proud of what we did, but there is no doubt that my credibility as an actress was knocked," she reflected. "Certain people in the industry would never employ me as a serious actress after it. On the other hand, it gave me the financial security to go off and work in the theatre for very little money." Her performances as Mrs Oxo were reportedly responsible for a 10% increase in stock cube sales.
Lynda Bellingham has acted in films with Miriam Margolyes, Ian Bannen, John Le Mesurier and Edward Woodward.
Lynda Bellingham has worked with these film directors: Norman Cohen and David Wickes.
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