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