Phyllis Logan is a Actor British born on 11 january 1956 at Paisley (United-kingdom)
Phyllis Logan
Phyllis Logan participated to
16 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actress
, 2h15
Directed by Mike LeighOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about adoption,
Films about children,
Films about familiesActors Timothy Spall,
Brenda Blethyn,
Phyllis Logan,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste,
Claire Rushbrook,
Liz SmithRoles Monica Purley
Rating79%
The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black middle class optometrist in London, who is adopted and has chosen to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother. After being warned by public officials about the troubles she could face by tracking her birth mother down, she continues her investigation and is baffled to learn that her birth mother is white but does not resent her and wants to know more about her past. Her birth mother, Cynthia Purley, is working class and downwardly mobile. Hortense meets her and later meets Cynthia's brother, Maurice Purley, a photographer, his wife Monica, and Cynthia's daughter Roxanne, a street cleaner.