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

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Score: 7.3

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Score: 7.3

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Score: 7.2

Vera Drake

Score: 7.2

Citizen X

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

The Far Traveller

Score: 7.0

Another Year

Score: 7.0

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Score: 7.0

Twelfth Night

Score: 6.9

Comrades

Score: 6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

Score: 6.9

Shakespeare in Love

Score: 6.9

Paddington in Peru

Score: 6.8

Chicken Run

Score: 6.8

Jack and the Beanstalk

Score: 6.8

That Day We Sang

Score: 6.8

Arthur Christmas

Score: 6.8

The Canterville Ghost

Score: 6.7

Nanny McPhee

Score: 6.7

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.6

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Score: 6.5

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

Score: 6.5

London: The Modern Babylon

Score: 6.5

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Score: 6.5

Peter's Friends

Score: 6.5

My Family and Other Animals

Score: 6.4

The Wind in the Willows

Score: 6.4

The Awakening

Score: 6.4

Bright Young Things

Score: 6.3

Taking Woodstock

Score: 6.2

The Snow Queen

Score: 6.2

How About You...

Score: 6.2

Another Life

Score: 6.2

The Ugly Duckling

Score: 6.1

Rat

Score: 6.1

The Girl

Score: 6.1

White Other

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Mole

Score: 6.0

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Score: 6.0

Crush

Score: 5.7

Three and Out

Score: 5.7

Guilty Hearts

Score: 5.6

The Snow Queen's Revenge

Score: 5.5

Antonia and Jane

Score: 5.5

I'll Be There

Score: 5.5

A Bunch of Amateurs

Score: 5.4

Blackball

Score: 5.3

Amulet

Score: 5.3

Clay

Score: 5.2

Mole's Christmas

Score: 4.8

Deadly Advice

Score: 4.6

Shadow Man

Score: 4.4

Remember Me?

Score: 4.0

The Virgin of Liverpool

Score: 2.3

The Wind in the Willows

Score: 0.0

Victorian Britain on Film

Score: 0.0

& Sons

Score: 0.0

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

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

Brassic

Score: 8.5

The Crown

Score: 8.2

Cranford

Score: 8.1

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Score: 8.1

Cranford

Score: 8.1

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Score: 7.9

The Singing Detective

Score: 7.7

Big & Small

Score: 7.7

Trying

Score: 7.7

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Doctor Who

Score: 7.5

ShakespeaRe-Told

Score: 7.5

Fingersmith

Score: 7.3

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Little Britain

Score: 7.1

Natural World

Score: 7.1

David Copperfield

Score: 7.1

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Lily's Driftwood Bay

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

A Confession

Score: 6.9

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.8

Psychoville

Score: 6.8

Up the Garden Path

Score: 6.8

If You See God, Tell Him

Score: 6.7

Cambridge Spies

Score: 6.4

Flesh and Blood

Score: 6.3

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Score: 6.2

The Play on One

Score: 6.0

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Score: 6.0

Strange

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: 4.5

Murder

Score: 4.0

Thompson

Score: 1.0

Look at the State We're In!

Score: 0.0

The Michael Ball Show

Score: 0.0

Live!Girls! present Dogtown

Score: 0.0