Imelda Staunton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
139
Gender
Female
Birthday
1956-01-09 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Archway, London, England, UK
Imelda Staunton
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.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
The Graham Norton Show
Doctor Who
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The One Show
Golden Globe Awards
The Crown
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Alice in Wonderland
Tales from the Crypt
Natural World
Trying
Maleficent
Playhouse
Paddington in Peru
The Oscars
Screen Two
Performance
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Freedom Writers
Paddington
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Little Britain
Chicken Run
Nanny McPhee
The Canterville Ghost
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Paddington 2
The Ugly Duckling
Sense and Sensibility
Bright Young Things
The Wind in the Willows
Downton Abbey
Big & Small
Finding Your Feet
Cranford
Jack and the Beanstalk
Citizen X
Much Ado About Nothing
Arthur Christmas
How About You...
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Creating the World of Harry Potter
The Wind in the Willows
David Copperfield
Vera Drake
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
& Sons
The Play on One
The Michael Ball Show
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
The Adventures of Mole
A Masculine Ending
Psychoville
Rat
Three and Out
Easy Money
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Peter's Friends
Shadow Man
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
Pride
Victorian Britain on Film
Psychoville Halloween Special
Shakespeare in Love
Deadly Advice
The Singing Detective
ShakespeaRe-Told
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
A Confession
Amulet
That Day We Sang
Fingersmith
Guilty Hearts
The Pen
London: The Modern Babylon
The Virgin of Liverpool
Lily's Driftwood Bay
Cambridge Spies
Twelfth Night
The Awakening
Another Life
Clay
Crush
Another Year
Gypsy
Comrades
Strange
Blackball
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
The Story of Musicals
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Taking Woodstock
Up the Garden Path
The Heat of the Day
Look at the State We're In!
The Adventures of Toad
Flesh and Blood
Is It Legal?
Murder
A Confession As Told By ITV News
Don't Leave Me This Way
If You See God, Tell Him
My Family and Other Animals
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
I'll Be There
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
Ladies in Charge
Ladies in Charge
The Girl
Roots
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Thompson
The Snow Queen
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
Mole's Christmas
They Never Slept
Yellowbacks
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Remember Me?
White Other
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Adapting Austen
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
A Bunch of Amateurs
Ready
Antonia and Jane
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
The Far Traveller
National Theatre Live: Follies
Little Bird
The Englishman's Wife
