"Linda Bassett" is an England/English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career.

Bassett was born in Kent, England, to a typist mother and a police officer father.[http://www.filmreference.com/film/60/Linda-Bassett.html Linda Bassett Biography (1950-)] Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 United Kingdom/British comedy film East is East (film)/East is East. Other roles include Mrs. Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility (2008 miniseries)/Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turrill in Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)/Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass (2008 film)/Cass.

In film she appeared as Mrs. Brenner, the prison official in the 2008 film The Reader (2008 film)/The Reader and as Cora in Calendar Girls. She was March.

More recently she played Grandma in the BBC Two comedy Grandma's House.

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I wouldn't do it without family involvement.

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I'm somewhat of a control freak. I told (Jason) it was such a good compliment that I wasn't over there all the time.

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