Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

Birthdate
January 9, 1956 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Archway, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
January 9, 1956 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Archway, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting

Biography

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.

Imelda Staunton's LGBTQ+ Titles

Pride
Pride
Hefina

Acting (129)

2024
Paddington in Peru as Aunt Lucy (voice)
2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Bunty (voice)
2023
The Canterville Ghost as Mrs Umney (voice)
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era as Maud Bagshaw
2020
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
2020
Amulet as Sister Claire
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Irene Ruddock (1 episode)
2020
Trying as Penny (2 episodes)
2020
The Far Traveller as Narrator
2020
Flesh and Blood as Mary Bennett (4 episodes)
2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Knotgrass
2019
A Confession As Told By ITV News as Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
2019
Downton Abbey as Maud Bagshaw
2019
A Confession as Karen Edwards (6 episodes)
2019
Brassic as Edie (1 episode)
2017
Finding Your Feet as Sandra Abbott
2017
National Theatre Live: Follies as Sally Durant Plummer
2017
Paddington 2 as Aunt Lucy (voice)
2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic as Narrator
2017
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
2017
Little Bird as First Officer Simpkins
2016
The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II (20 episodes)
2016
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me as Self
2015
Gypsy as Rose
2014
That Day We Sang as Enid
2014
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014
Paddington as Aunt Lucy (voice)
2014
Pride as Hefina
2014
Maleficent as Knotgrass
2014
Lily's Driftwood Bay as Rowena Rabbit (voice) (1 episode)
2013
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time as Shrew (voice)
2012
The Girl as Alma Reville Hitchcock
2012
London: The Modern Babylon as Spoken Quotations (voice)
2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! as Queen Victoria (voice)
2012
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
2011
Arthur Christmas as Mrs Santa (voice)
2011
The Awakening as Maud Hill
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Dolores Umbridge
2010
White Other as Lynne McDermott
2010
Another Year as Janet
2010
Psychoville Halloween Special as Grace Andrews
2010
The Michael Ball Show as Self (1 episode)
2010
Alice in Wonderland as Tall Flower Faces (voice)
2009
Taking Woodstock as Sonia Teichberg
2009
Psychoville (6 episodes)
2008
A Bunch of Amateurs as Mary
2008
Three and Out as Rosemary Cassidy
2008
Big & Small (78 episodes)
2008
Clay as Mary Doonan
2007
Cranford as Miss Pole (7 episodes)
2007
Cranford as Self/Miss Octavia Pole (1 episode)
2007
How About You... as Hazel Nightingale
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Dolores Umbridge
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (3 episodes)
2007
Freedom Writers as Margaret Campbell
2006
The Wind in the Willows as Barge Lady
2006
Live!Girls! present Dogtown (1 episode)
2006
Shadow Man as Ambassador Cochran
2006
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image as Herself
2006
Guilty Hearts as Naomi
2005
My Family and Other Animals as Mother
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told (1 episode)
2005
Nanny McPhee as Mrs. Blatherwick
2005
Fingersmith as Mrs. Sucksby (3 episodes)
2005
Doctor Who as Interface (voice) (1 episode)
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self (1 episode)
2004
Vera Drake as Vera Drake
2003
Bright Young Things as Lady Brown
2003
Little Britain (1 episode)
2003
Little Britain as Mrs. Mead (1 episode)
2003
I'll Be There as Dr. Bridget
2003
Strange (1 episode)
2003
Blackball as Bridget
2003
Cambridge Spies as The Queen (2 episodes)
2003
The Virgin of Liverpool as Sylvia Conlon
2002
Crush as Janine
2002
Murder as DCI Billie Dory (4 episodes)
2002
Murder as DCI Billie Dory
2001
Another Life as Ethel Graydon
2001
Rat as Conchita Flynn
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Mrs. Cottisloe
2000
Chicken Run as Bunty (voice)
1999
David Copperfield as Mrs. Micawber (2 episodes)
1999
Jack and the Beanstalk as Dilly
1998
Shakespeare in Love as Nurse
1997
The Ugly Duckling as Scruffy (voice)
1997
Midsomer Murders as Christine Cooper (1 episode)
1997
Remember Me?
1996
Twelfth Night as Maria
1996
The Adventures of Toad as Voice
1995
The Adventures of Mole as Voice
1995
Sense and Sensibility as Charlotte Jennings Palmer
1995
Is It Legal? (21 episodes)
1995
Look at the State We're In! as Councillor Johnson (6 episodes)
1995
Citizen X as Mrs. Burakov
1995
The Snow Queen as Ivy / Angorra
1994
Mole's Christmas as (voices)
1994
Deadly Advice as Beth Greenwood
1993
If You See God, Tell Him as Muriel Spry (4 episodes)
1993
Frank Stubbs Promotes as Susan (1 episode)
1993
Don't Leave Me This Way as Bridget Bennet
1993
Much Ado About Nothing as Margaret
1992
Roots as Jenny Beales
1992
Peter's Friends as Mary Charleston
1992
A Masculine Ending as Bridget Bennet
1991
Performance as Jenny Beales (1 episode)
1991
They Never Slept as The Producer
1990
Yellowbacks as Cheryl Newman
1990
Up the Garden Path (18 episodes)
1990
The Englishman's Wife as Stephanie
1990
Antonia and Jane as Jane Hartman
1989
Tales from the Crypt as Sarah (1 episode)
1989
The Heat of the Day as Louie
1989
A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1 episode)
1988
Thompson as Self (6 episodes)
1988
The Play on One as Cheryl Newman (1 episode)
1987
Comrades as Betsy Loveless
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Polly Flinders (3 episodes)
1986
The Singing Detective as Staff Nurse White (6 episodes)
1986
Ladies in Charge (1 episode)
1986
Ladies in Charge as Edith (6 episodes)
1985
Screen Two as The Producer (1 episode)
1983
Natural World as Narrator (1 episode)
1982
Easy Money as Mary Price
1982
Easy Money as Mary Price
1953
The Oscars as Self (1 episode)
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)