Vera star Brenda Blethyn has been candid about her mortality as she prepares to run a half-marathon.

For veteran actor Brenda Blethyn, playing the heroine in the new dramatization of 1980s blockbuster A Woman of Substance had a poignant resonance. Blethyn, who plays Emma Harte in Barbara Taylor ...

Vera star Brenda Blethyn is presently appearing in Channel 4's A Woman of Substance, a television adaptation of a bestselling novel regularly cited among the "best-selling books of all time". Starring ...

The pair play Emma Harte at different stages of her rags-to-riches story The original TV show was broadcast in the U.S. in 1985 following Barbara Taylor Bradford's bestselling novel For veteran actor ...