Brenda Blethyn with John Hurt in "A Story Short"
Brenda Blethyn (b. 1946) is an English actress and two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress (Secrets & Lies in 1997 and Little Voice in 1999). She guest starred on The StoryTeller, playing The Storyteller's wife in "A Story Short", and co-starred as Mrs. Jenkins in The Witches.
Other film credits include Pride and Prejudice, Beyond the Sea, The Wild Thornberrys' Movie, and the 2004 remake of Wodehouse's Picadilly Jim.