Imelda Staunton

Acting · 2.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 9, 1956
From: Archway, London, England, UK

Biography

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.

Works

98 films

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Alice in Wonderland

20106.6

Paddington in Peru

20246.8

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

20197.3

Maleficent

20147.1

Chicken Run

20006.8

Paddington 2

20177.5

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Nanny McPhee

20056.7

Paddington

20147.1

Freedom Writers

20077.9

Arthur Christmas

20116.8

Downton Abbey

20197.1

Shakespeare in Love

19986.8

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

20236.9

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

20126.5

Downton Abbey: A New Era

20227.2

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

Citizen X

19957.2

Pride

20147.7

The Canterville Ghost

20236.7

The Awakening

20116.4

Vera Drake

20047.2

Taking Woodstock

20096.2

Shadow Man

20064.3

Another Year

20107.0

Amulet

20205.2

& Sons

2026

Finding Your Feet

20177.0

Remember Me?

19976.5

The Girl

20126.1

Twelfth Night

19967.0

Peter's Friends

19926.6

Bright Young Things

20036.3

Testimony

2025

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

20177.3

My Family and Other Animals

20056.4

Adapting Austen

2009

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

Blackball

20035.2

I'll Be There

20035.4

Rat

20006.0

A Bunch of Amateurs

20085.7

The Ugly Duckling

19975.7

Ready

200210.0

Guilty Hearts

20075.8

Crush

20025.6

The Snow Queen

19956.5

The Wind in the Willows

20065.8

Don't Leave Me This Way

19937.3

How About You...

20076.3

London: The Modern Babylon

20126.4

Roots

1992

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

20228.0

Three and Out

20085.5

Where Have I Been All Your Life?

2007

Antonia and Jane

19905.4

National Theatre Live: Follies

20178.0

Pride: The True Story

2015

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010

The Far Traveller

20207.5

Deadly Advice

19944.7

The Virgin of Liverpool

20033.5

The Adventures of Toad

1996

The Englishman's Wife

1990

Little Bird

20179.0

Gypsy

20157.8

Another Life

20015.7

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

20078.0

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

202010.0

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

2021

Victorian Britain on Film

20218.0

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

20136.0

The Snow Queen's Revenge

19965.7

Comrades

19876.9

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

20206.0

The Adventures of Mole

19957.5

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

2014

White Other

20106.0

West the Road

2026

The Heat of the Day

19898.0

The Wind in the Willows

19956.0

Mole's Christmas

19945.4

Jack and the Beanstalk

19996.8

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2012

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

20176.2

Clay

20085.2

Easy Money

1982

A Confession As Told By ITV News

2019

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

20068.8

They Never Slept

1991

A Masculine Ending

19928.0

That Day We Sang

20146.8

Yellowbacks

19908.0

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

2016

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

2025

The Pen

1995