Imelda Staunton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
140
Gender
Female
Birthday
1956-01-09 (70 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
Doctor Who
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Graham Norton Show
The Crown
The One Show
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The Oscars
Playhouse
Alice in Wonderland
Natural World
Maleficent
Tales from the Crypt
Vera Drake
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sense and Sensibility
Little Britain
Performance
Shakespeare in Love
Taking Woodstock
Pride
Clay
Screen Two
Rat
Amulet
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The Girl
Chicken Run
Trying
Blackball
Paddington in Peru
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Roots
Comrades
Crush
& Sons
Paddington
Nanny McPhee
Paddington 2
My Family and Other Animals
The Michael Ball Show
Cranford
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
The Adventures of Toad
I'll Be There
Freedom Writers
David Copperfield
Downton Abbey: A New Era
A Bunch of Amateurs
Peter's Friends
Ready
Remember Me?
Downton Abbey
The Awakening
The Snow Queen
Is It Legal?
A Confession
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Arthur Christmas
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Fingersmith
Psychoville
Much Ado About Nothing
Lily's Driftwood Bay
The Ugly Duckling
Big & Small
The Play on One
ShakespeaRe-Told
They Never Slept
Strange
The Story of Musicals
The Canterville Ghost
White Other
Mole's Christmas
Citizen X
The Singing Detective
Shadow Man
Cambridge Spies
Bright Young Things
Antonia and Jane
The Adventures of Mole
Psychoville Halloween Special
Look at the State We're In!
Another Year
Flesh and Blood
Twelfth Night
Murder
Three and Out
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Finding Your Feet
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
London: The Modern Babylon
Thompson
Ladies in Charge
Ladies in Charge
The Wind in the Willows
Testimony
Up the Garden Path
Don't Leave Me This Way
Another Life
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
If You See God, Tell Him
How About You...
Victorian Britain on Film
National Theatre Live: Follies
Yellowbacks
Deadly Advice
That Day We Sang
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Adapting Austen
Little Bird
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Masculine Ending
The Snow Queen's Revenge
A Confession As Told By ITV News
Guilty Hearts
Gypsy
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
The Wind in the Willows
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
The Heat of the Day
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
Easy Money
The Far Traveller
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
The Virgin of Liverpool
The Englishman's Wife
The Pen
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Jack and the Beanstalk
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
