Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

Birthday: 1956-01-09

Place of birth: Archway, London, England, UK

Also known as: Ιμέλντα Στόντον, Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, 艾美达·斯丹顿

imdb_id: nm0001767

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.

Played in movies:

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

Score: 10.0

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

Score: 8.8

Little Bird

Score: 8.5

National Theatre Live: Follies

Score: 8.0

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Score: 8.0

Freedom Writers

Score: 7.9

Gypsy

Score: 7.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Score: 7.7

Pride

Score: 7.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Score: 7.7

Paddington 2

Score: 7.5

Sense and Sensibility

Score: 7.4

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Score: 7.4

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Score: 7.3

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Score: 7.2

Citizen X

Score: 7.2

Vera Drake

Score: 7.2

Downton Abbey

Score: 7.1

Paddington

Score: 7.1

Finding Your Feet

Score: 7.1

Maleficent

Score: 7.1

Don't Leave Me This Way

Score: 7.0

Yellowbacks

Score: 7.0

Twelfth Night

Score: 7.0

Another Year

Score: 7.0

The Far Traveller

Score: 7.0

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Score: 6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

Score: 6.9

Paddington in Peru

Score: 6.9

Shakespeare in Love

Score: 6.9

Jack and the Beanstalk

Score: 6.8

Comrades

Score: 6.8

That Day We Sang

Score: 6.8

The Canterville Ghost

Score: 6.8

Arthur Christmas

Score: 6.8

Chicken Run

Score: 6.8

Nanny McPhee

Score: 6.7

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.6

Peter's Friends

Score: 6.5

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Score: 6.5

London: The Modern Babylon

Score: 6.5

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Score: 6.5

My Family and Other Animals

Score: 6.5

The Awakening

Score: 6.4

Bright Young Things

Score: 6.3

How About You...

Score: 6.2

Taking Woodstock

Score: 6.2

The Snow Queen

Score: 6.2

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

Score: 6.2

The Girl

Score: 6.1

Rat

Score: 6.1

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

Score: 6.0

White Other

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Mole

Score: 6.0

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Score: 6.0

Another Life

Score: 6.0

The Wind in the Willows

Score: 5.8

A Bunch of Amateurs

Score: 5.7

Crush

Score: 5.6

The Ugly Duckling

Score: 5.6

Three and Out

Score: 5.5

Antonia and Jane

Score: 5.5

Guilty Hearts

Score: 5.5

The Snow Queen's Revenge

Score: 5.4

I'll Be There

Score: 5.4

Amulet

Score: 5.3

Clay

Score: 5.2

Blackball

Score: 5.2

Mole's Christmas

Score: 4.8

Deadly Advice

Score: 4.6

Shadow Man

Score: 4.3

Remember Me?

Score: 4.0

The Virgin of Liverpool

Score: 2.3

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

Score: 0.0

Adapting Austen

Score: 0.0

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

Score: 0.0

The Wind in the Willows

Score: 0.0

Victorian Britain on Film

Score: 0.0

& Sons

Score: 0.0

The Pen

Score: 0.0

Ready

Score: 0.0

The Adventures of Toad

Score: 0.0

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Score: 0.0

The Heat of the Day

Score: 0.0

Easy Money

Score: 0.0

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

Score: 0.0

A Masculine Ending

Score: 0.0

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Score: 0.0

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

Score: 0.0

A Confession As Told By ITV News

Score: 0.0

Psychoville Halloween Special

Score: 0.0

The Englishman's Wife

Score: 0.0

They Never Slept

Score: 0.0

Roots

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Score: 10.0

The Crown

Score: 8.2

Cranford

Score: 8.2

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Score: 8.1

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Score: 7.9

Big & Small

Score: 7.7

Trying

Score: 7.7

The Singing Detective

Score: 7.6

Doctor Who

Score: 7.6

ShakespeaRe-Told

Score: 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Fingersmith

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Little Britain

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Natural World

Score: 7.1

David Copperfield

Score: 7.1

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Lily's Driftwood Bay

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

A Confession

Score: 6.9

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Psychoville

Score: 6.8

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.8

Up the Garden Path

Score: 6.8

If You See God, Tell Him

Score: 6.7

Strange

Score: 6.5

Cambridge Spies

Score: 6.4

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Score: 6.3

Flesh and Blood

Score: 6.3

The Play on One

Score: 6.0

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Score: 6.0

Performance

Score: 6.0

Is It Legal?

Score: 5.5

Ladies in Charge

Score: 5.0

Ladies in Charge

Score: 5.0

The One Show

Score: 4.6

Murder

Score: 4.0

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Score: 2.7

Thompson

Score: 1.0

The Story of Musicals

Score: 0.0

Look at the State We're In!

Score: 0.0

The Michael Ball Show

Score: 0.0

Live! Girls! Present Dogtown

Score: 0.0