Imelda Staunton
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born January 9, 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.
Born: 09 January 1956
Played In
Tommy & Tuppence
Aunt Ada
Testimony
Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
Mrs Peggy Warren
& Sons
Isabel
Paddington in Peru
Aunt Lucy (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Bunty (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs Umney (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Maud Bagshaw
Victorian Britain on Film
Narrator
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
Self
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
Self - Narrator
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
reader
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Self - Readings
Amulet
Sister Claire
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Irene Ruddock
Trying
Penny
The Far Traveller
Narrator
Flesh and Blood
Mary Bennett
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Knotgrass
A Confession As Told By ITV News
Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
Downton Abbey
Maud Bagshaw
A Confession
Karen Edwards
Finding Your Feet
Sandra Abbott
National Theatre Live: Follies
Sally Durant Plummer
Paddington 2
Aunt Lucy (voice)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha
Little Bird
First Officer Simpkins
The Crown
Queen Elizabeth II
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
Self
Gypsy
Rose
That Day We Sang
Enid
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
Self
Paddington
Aunt Lucy (voice)
Pride
Hefina
Maleficent
Knotgrass
Lily's Driftwood Bay
Rowena Rabbit (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Shrew (voice)
The Girl
Alma Reville Hitchcock
London: The Modern Babylon
Spoken Quotations (voice)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Queen Victoria (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
The Story of Musicals
Self – Narrator (voice)
Arthur Christmas
Mrs Santa (voice)
The Awakening
Maud Hill
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Dolores Umbridge
White Other
Lynne McDermott
Another Year
Janet
Psychoville Halloween Special
Grace Andrews
The Michael Ball Show
Self
Alice in Wonderland
Talking Flowers (voice)
Taking Woodstock
Sonia Teichberg
Psychoville
Grace Andrews
Adapting Austen
Self
A Bunch of Amateurs
Mary
Big & Small
Twiba / Ruby (voice)
Big & Small
Twiba (voice)
Three and Out
Rosemary Cassidy
Clay
Mary Doonan
Cranford
Miss Pole
How About You...
Hazel Nightingale
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
Angela
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
Guilty Hearts
Naomi
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dolores Umbridge
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Freedom Writers
Margaret Campbell
The Wind in the Willows
Barge Lady
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
Shadow Man
Ambassador Cochran
The One Show
Self
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Herself
My Family and Other Animals
Mother
ShakespeaRe-Told
Nanny McPhee
Mrs. Blatherwick
Fingersmith
Mrs. Sucksby
Doctor Who
Interface (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Vera Drake
Vera Drake
Bright Young Things
Lady Brown
Little Britain
Mrs. Mead
I'll Be There
Dr. Bridget
Strange
Reverend Mary Truegood
Blackball
Bridget
Cambridge Spies
The Queen
The Virgin of Liverpool
Sylvia Conlon
Crush
Janine
Murder
DCI Billie Dory
Ready
Naomi
Another Life
Ethel Graydon
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Mrs. Cottisloe
Rat
Conchita Flynn
Chicken Run
Bunty (voice)
David Copperfield
Mrs. Micawber
Jack and the Beanstalk
Dilly (voice)
Shakespeare in Love
Nurse
The Ugly Duckling
Scruffy (voice)
Midsomer Murders
Christine Cooper
Remember Me?
Lorna
Twelfth Night
Maria
The Adventures of Toad
Voice
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Elspeth / Rowena (voice)
The Wind in the Willows
Mother Squirrel
The Adventures of Mole
Voice
Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Jennings Palmer
Is It Legal?
The Pen
Look at the State We're In!
Councillor Johnson
Citizen X
Mrs. Burakov
The Snow Queen
Ivy / Angorra
Mole's Christmas
(voices)
Deadly Advice
Beth Greenwood
If You See God, Tell Him
Muriel Spry
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Susan
Don't Leave Me This Way
Bridget Bennet
Much Ado About Nothing
Margaret
Roots
Jenny Beales
Peter's Friends
Mary Charleston
A Masculine Ending
Bridget Bennet
Performance
Jenny Beales
They Never Slept
The Producer
Yellowbacks
Cheryl Newman
Antonia and Jane
Jane Hartman
Up the Garden Path
The Englishman's Wife
Stephanie
Tales from the Crypt
Sarah
The Heat of the Day
Louie
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Thompson
Self
The Play on One
Cheryl Newman
Comrades
Betsy Loveless
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Polly Flinders
The Singing Detective
Staff Nurse White
ScreenPlay
Jane Hartman
ScreenPlay
Stephanie
Ladies in Charge
Edith
Screen Two
The Producer
Natural World
Narrator
Easy Money
Mary Price
Playhouse
Mary Price
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
West the Road