Menna Trussler

Menna Trussler


in Swansea, Wales, UK

Movies for Menna Trussler...

Affairs of the Art
Title: Affairs of the Art
Character: Beryl (voice)
Released: January 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.
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Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Title: Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent, including Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon, with some contributions from the local community.
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Golden Years
Title: Golden Years
Character: Iris
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
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Title: The Casual Vacancy
Character: Betty
Released: February 15, 2015
Type: TV
The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Gwen
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Mrs Evans
Released: January 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Old Woman
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Dreams and Desires: Family Ties
Title: Dreams and Desires: Family Ties
Character: Beryl (voice)
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Beryl acquires a new Digi Video camera and becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts in a video diary. As “cineaste par excellence” she agrees to film her friend’s wedding, seizing the opportunity to “strut her stuff filmically” with disastrous and often hilarious results.
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Otherworld
Title: Otherworld
Character: Midwife (voice)
Released: June 26, 2003
Type: Movie
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
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Undertaking Betty
Title: Undertaking Betty
Character: Dilys Rhys-Jones
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
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Human Traffic
Title: Human Traffic
Character: Lulu's Auntie Violet
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Five twenty-something friends spend a drug-fueled weekend in Cardiff, Wales.
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Title: Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Bethlehem Women (voice)
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: TV
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
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August
Title: August
Character: Gwen
Released: August 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Rebecca's Daughters
Title: Rebecca's Daughters
Character: Lady with Teapot
Released: March 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.