Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom. Staunton has performed in a variety of plays and musicals in London throughout her career, winning four Laurence Olivier Awards; three for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her roles in the musicals Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Gypsy, and one for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play for her work in both A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is Green. Her other stage appearances include The Beggar's Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Entertaining Mr Sloane, and Good People. She has been nominated for 13 Olivier Awards. On film, Staunton starred in Antonia and Jane; in several supporting roles in Kenneth Branagh's comedy Peter's Friends, his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing; Ang Lee's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility; and the costume romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love. She drew critical acclaim for her performance in the title role in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actress, in addition to being nominated for Best Actress by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She later gained a wider audience for her portrayal as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1. She continued supporting roles in Nanny McPhee, reunited with Leigh in Another Year, and the film continuation of Downton Abbey. She portrayed human rights activist Hefina Headon in the historical film Pride, and starred in the British comedy Finding Your Feet. She also provided voice acting roles for the films Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas, and Paddington. On television, Staunton starred in the sitcoms Up the Garden Path and Is it Legal?. Her performance in My Family and Other Animals earned her a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress, while her roles in Return to Cranford and The Girl earned her BAFTA TV Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. For the latter, she was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the final two seasons of The Crown.

Known For: Acting

Born: Archway, London, England, UK, 1956-01-09

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Easy Money	Mary Price	0
2	1987	Comrades	Betsy Loveless	68
3	1989	The Heat of the Day	Louie	0
4	1990	Antonia and Jane	Jane Hartman	55
5	1990	The Englishman's Wife	Stephanie	0
6	1990	Yellowbacks	Cheryl Newman	70
7	1991	They Never Slept	The Producer	0
8	1992	A Masculine Ending	Bridget Bennet	0
9	1992	Peter's Friends	Mary Charleston	65
10	1992	Roots	Jenny Beales	0
11	1993	Much Ado About Nothing	Margaret	69
12	1993	Don't Leave Me This Way	Bridget Bennet	70
13	1994	Deadly Advice	Beth Greenwood	46
14	1994	Mole's Christmas	(voices)	48
15	1995	The Snow Queen	Ivy / Angorra	62
16	1995	Citizen X	Mrs. Burakov	72
17	1995	The Pen		0
18	1995	Sense and Sensibility	Charlotte Jennings Palmer	74
19	1995	The Adventures of Mole	Voice	60
20	1995	The Wind in the Willows	Mother Squirrel	0
21	1996	The Snow Queen's Revenge	Elspeth / Rowena (voice)	54
22	1996	The Adventures of Toad	Voice	0
23	1996	Twelfth Night	Maria	69
24	1997	Remember Me?		40
25	1997	The Ugly Duckling	Scruffy (voice)	56
26	1998	Shakespeare in Love	Nurse	69
27	1999	Jack and the Beanstalk	Dilly (voice)	68
28	2000	Chicken Run	Bunty (voice)	68
29	2000	Rat	Conchita Flynn	61
30	2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Mrs. Cottisloe	65
31	2001	Another Life	Ethel Graydon	60
32	2002	Ready	Naomi	0
33	2002	Crush	Janine	56
34	2003	The Virgin of Liverpool	Sylvia Conlon	23
35	2003	Blackball	Bridget	52
36	2003	I'll Be There	Dr. Bridget	54
37	2003	Bright Young Things	Lady Brown	63
38	2004	Vera Drake	Vera Drake	72
39	2005	Nanny McPhee	Mrs. Blatherwick	67
40	2005	My Family and Other Animals	Mother	64
41	2006	Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image	Herself	88
42	2006	Shadow Man	Ambassador Cochran	44
43	2006	The Wind in the Willows	Barge Lady	58
44	2007	Freedom Writers	Margaret Campbell	79
45	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Dolores Umbridge	77
46	2007	Guilty Hearts	Naomi	55
47	2007	Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out	Self	0
48	2007	How About You...	Hazel Nightingale	62
49	2008	Clay	Mary Doonan	52
50	2008	Three and Out	Rosemary Cassidy	56
51	2008	A Bunch of Amateurs	Mary	54
52	2009	Taking Woodstock	Sonia Teichberg	62
53	2010	Alice in Wonderland	Talking Flowers (voice)	66
54	2010	Psychoville Halloween Special	Grace Andrews	0
55	2010	Another Year	Janet	70
56	2010	White Other	Lynne McDermott	60
57	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Dolores Umbridge	77
58	2011	The Awakening	Maud Hill	64
59	2011	Arthur Christmas	Mrs Santa (voice)	68
60	2012	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Mrs. Lovett	0
61	2012	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!	Queen Victoria (voice)	65
62	2012	London: The Modern Babylon	Spoken Quotations (voice)	65
63	2012	The Girl	Alma Reville Hitchcock	61
64	2013	Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time	Shrew (voice)	60
65	2014	Maleficent	Knotgrass	71
66	2014	Pride	Hefina	77
67	2014	Paddington	Aunt Lucy (voice)	71
68	2014	That Day We Sang	Enid	68
69	2014	Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made		0
70	2015	Gypsy	Rose	78
71	2016	Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me	Self	0
72	2017	Little Bird	First Officer Simpkins	85
73	2017	National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Martha	62
74	2017	Harry Potter: A History Of Magic	Narrator	73
75	2017	Paddington 2	Aunt Lucy (voice)	75
76	2017	National Theatre Live: Follies	Sally Durant Plummer	80
77	2017	Finding Your Feet	Sandra Abbott	71
78	2019	Downton Abbey	Maud Bagshaw	71
79	2019	A Confession As Told By ITV News	Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards	0
80	2019	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	Knotgrass	73
81	2020	The Far Traveller	Narrator	70
82	2020	Amulet	Sister Claire	53
83	2020	The Magical World of Julia Donaldson	Self - Readings	0
84	2020	The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson	reader	100
85	2021	Victorian Britain on Film	Narrator	0
86	2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Maud Bagshaw	72
87	2022	Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends	Self	80
88	2023	The Canterville Ghost	Mrs Umney (voice)	66
89	2023	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Bunty (voice)	70
90	2024	Paddington in Peru	Aunt Lucy (voice)	69
91		& Sons		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1974	Playhouse	Mary Price	70
4	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
5	1985	Screen Two	The Producer	68
6	1986	Ladies in Charge		50
7	1986	Ladies in Charge	Edith	50
8	1986	The Singing Detective	Staff Nurse White	76
9	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Polly Flinders	62
10	1988	The Play on One	Cheryl Newman	60
11	1988	Thompson	Self	10
12	1989	A Bit of Fry & Laurie		79
13	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Sarah	80
14	1990	Up the Garden Path		68
15	1991	Performance	Jenny Beales	60
16	1993	Frank Stubbs Promotes	Susan	60
17	1993	If You See God, Tell Him	Muriel Spry	67
18	1995	Look at the State We're In!	Councillor Johnson	0
19	1995	Is It Legal?		55
20	1997	Midsomer Murders	Christine Cooper	75
21	1999	David Copperfield	Mrs. Micawber	71
22	2002	Murder	DCI Billie Dory	40
23	2003	Cambridge Spies	The Queen	63
24	2003	Strange	Reverend Mary Truegood	65
25	2003	Little Britain	Mrs. Mead	72
26	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
27	2005	Doctor Who	Interface (voice)	76
28	2005	Fingersmith	Mrs. Sucksby	73
29	2005	ShakespeaRe-Told		75
30	2006	The One Show	Self	45
31	2006	Live!Girls! present Dogtown		0
32	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
33	2007	Cranford	Miss Pole	81
34	2008	Big & Small		77
35	2009	Psychoville		68
36	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Dolores Umbridge'	100
37	2010	The Michael Ball Show	Self	0
38	2014	Lily's Driftwood Bay	Rowena Rabbit (voice)	70
39	2016	The Crown	Queen Elizabeth II	82
40	2019	A Confession	Karen Edwards	69
41	2020	Flesh and Blood	Mary Bennett	63
42	2020	Trying	Penny	77
43	2020	Alan Bennett's Talking Heads	Irene Ruddock	81
44	2022	Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg	Self	27

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