Doreen Broadbent

Biography

Roy Broadbent and Doreen Broadbent: The Quiet Theatre Makers Who Shaped Jim Broadbent’s Career

Jim Broadbent is widely recognised for films such as Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yet the story behind the actor begins well away from London studios and Hollywood premieres. It starts in rural Lincolnshire, where his parents, Roy Broadbent and Doreen “Dee” Findlay, built an artistic community that gave their son…