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Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress. She is best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera Drake. For the latter, she drew widespread critical acclaim as Vera Drake, earning her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a number of wins including the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Awards for best actress in a leading role. Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie, a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a road-worker and labourer. The family lived over Staunton's mother's hair dressing salon while Staunton’s father worked on the roads. Staunton met her husband, English actor Jim Carter, in Richard Eyre's landmark early Eighties production of Guys And Dolls at the National Theatre. They have a daughter, Bessie, born 1993. Staunton lives with her family in West Hampstead, northwest London, and is long time friends with actor Stephen Fry, actor Hugh Laurie and actress Emma Thompson, her neighbor.
Movie | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Bunty (voice) | 2023-12-08 |
Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Mrs Umney (voice) | 2023-09-22 |
Movie | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
Movie | Amulet | Sister Claire | 2020-07-24 |
Movie | The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
Series | A Confession | Karen Edwards | 2019-09-02 |
Movie | Downton Abbey | Maud Bagshaw | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Knotgrass | 2019-10-16 |
Movie | Little Bird | First Officer Simpkins | 2017-04-22 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | 2017-05-18 |
Movie | Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Narrator | 2017-10-28 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Follies | Sally Durant Plummer | 2017-11-16 |
Movie | Paddington 2 | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2017-11-09 |
Movie | Finding Your Feet | Sandra Abbott | 2017-12-26 |
Series | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Gypsy | Rose | 2015-12-27 |
Movie | Maleficent | Knotgrass | 2014-05-28 |
Movie | Pride | Hefina | 2014-09-12 |
Movie | Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made | 2014-12-26 | |
Movie | Paddington | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2014-11-24 |
Movie | That Day We Sang | Enid | 2014-12-26 |
Movie | Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time | Shrew (voice) | 2013-12-16 |
Movie | London: The Modern Babylon | Spoken Quotations (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
Movie | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Queen Victoria (voice) | 2012-03-12 |
Movie | The Girl | Alma Reville Hitchcock | 2012-10-22 |
Movie | The Awakening | Maud Hill | 2011-08-17 |
Movie | Arthur Christmas | Mrs Santa (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Tall Flower Faces (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
Series | The Michael Ball Show | Unknown | 2010-08-16 |
Movie | Another Year | Janet | 2010-11-05 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Dolores Umbridge | 2010-11-17 |
Series | Psychoville | 2009-06-18 | |
Movie | Taking Woodstock | Sonia Teichberg | 2009-08-26 |
Series | Big & Small | 2008-10-06 | |
Movie | Clay | Mary Doonan | 2008-03-30 |
Movie | Three and Out | Rosemary Cassidy | 2008-10-12 |
Movie | A Bunch of Amateurs | Mary | 2008-11-17 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Herself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Dolores Umbridge | 2007-07-08 |
Movie | Freedom Writers | Margaret Campbell | 2007-01-05 |
Movie | How About You... | Hazel Nightingale | 2007-11-16 |
Series | Cranford | Miss Pole | 2007-11-18 |
Movie | Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image | Herself | 2006-06-18 |
Movie | Guilty Hearts | Naomi | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Shadow Man | Ambassador Cochran | 2006-09-05 |
Series | Live!Girls! present Dogtown | Unknown | 2006-10-04 |
Movie | The Wind in the Willows | Barge Lady | 2006-12-18 |
Series | Fingersmith | Mrs. Sucksby | 2005-03-27 |
Series | Doctor Who | Voice of Interface | 2005-03-26 |
Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mrs. Blatherwick | 2005-10-21 |
Movie | My Family and Other Animals | Mother | 2005-12-27 |
Series | ShakespeaRe-Told | Unknown | 2005-11-07 |
Movie | Vera Drake | Vera Drake | 2004-10-22 |
Series | Cambridge Spies | The Queen | 2003-05-09 |
Movie | The Virgin of Liverpool | Sylvia Conlon | 2003-03-15 |
Movie | Blackball | Bridget | 2003-05-18 |
Series | Strange | Unknown | 2003-05-31 |
Movie | Bright Young Things | Lady Brown | 2003-10-03 |
Series | Little Britain | 2003-09-16 | |
Movie | I'll Be There | Dr. Bridget | 2003-06-13 |
Movie | Murder | DCI Billie Dory | 2002-05-01 |
Series | Murder | DCI Billie Dory | 2002-05-29 |
Movie | Rat | Conchita Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | Crush | Janine | 2001-08-19 |
Movie | Another Life | Ethel Graydon | 2001-06-15 |
Movie | Chicken Run | Bunty (voice) | 2000-06-21 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
Movie | Jack and the Beanstalk | Dilly | 1999-10-11 |
Series | David Copperfield | Mrs. Micawber | 1999-12-25 |
Movie | Shakespeare in Love | Nurse | 1998-12-11 |
Movie | The Ugly Duckling | Scruffy (voice) | 1997-09-04 |
Movie | Remember Me? | 1997-01-02 | |
Series | Midsomer Murders | Unknown | 1997-03-23 |
Movie | Twelfth Night | Maria | 1996-10-25 |
Movie | The Snow Queen | Ivy / Angorra | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | Citizen X | Mrs. Burakov | 1995-02-25 |
Movie | The Adventures of Mole | Voice | 1995-12-24 |
Series | Is It Legal? | 1995-09-12 | |
Movie | Sense and Sensibility | Charlotte Jennings Palmer | 1995-12-13 |
Movie | Deadly Advice | Beth Greenwood | 1994-04-29 |
Movie | Mole's Christmas | (voices) | 1994-12-25 |
Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Margaret | 1993-05-07 |
Series | If You See God, Tell Him | Muriel Spry | 1993-11-11 |
Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | Bridget Bennet | 1993-05-30 |
Movie | A Masculine Ending | Bridget Bennet | 1992-04-12 |
Movie | Peter's Friends | Mary Charleston | 1992-09-18 |
Movie | Antonia and Jane | Jane Hartman | 1990-01-01 |
Series | Up the Garden Path | 1990-05-02 | |
Series | A Bit of Fry & Laurie | Unknown | 1989-01-13 |
Movie | The Heat of the Day | Louie | 1989-06-09 |
Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
Series | Thompson | Self | 1988-11-10 |
Series | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Unknown | 1987-08-02 |
Movie | Comrades | Betsy Loveless | 1987-08-23 |
Series | Ladies in Charge | Edith | 1986-05-06 |
Series | The Singing Detective | Staff Nurse White | 1986-11-16 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Movie | Easy Money | Mary Price | 1982-05-28 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |