Rita Tushingham

. During her marriage, she used the name Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. The Knack (and how to get it) was filmed in the Southam Street area of Notting Hill. She was married to actor Val Kilmer from 1988 to 1996 and has two children. She was an icon of 1960s Britain, and was popularised again in the 1980s by Morrissey. Her most significant roles on British television were as Emma Craven in Troy Kennedy Martin's Edge of Darkness (1985), and Nurse Mills in the Dennis Potter-penned serial The Singing Detective (1986) both for BBC Television. She had memorable performances in The Leather Boys (1963), The Knack...And How to Get It (1965) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). Her film roles include an early, unspeaking part in Pink Floyd's The Wall; Willow and the part of Christine Keeler in Scandal, about the Profumo Affair.

Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey in 1961, the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. Born in Salford, she made her name in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She was born on 14 March 1940 in Liverpool, and started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1964) is a British actress. Rita Tushingham is an English actress.