Imelda Staunton
Acteur·rice
9 janvier 1956 · 70 years old
Archway, London, England, UK
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
As an actor
West the Road
& Sons
2026 · Isabel
Tommy & Tuppence
2026 · Aunt Ada
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
2025 · Mrs Peggy Warren
Testimony
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Paddington in Peru
2024 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023 · Bunty (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
2023 · Mrs Umney (voice)
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Maud Bagshaw
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022 · Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self
Victorian Britain on Film
2021 · Narrator
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
2021 · Self
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
2021 · Self - Narrator
The Far Traveller
2020 · Narrator
Amulet
2020 · Sister Claire
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020 · reader
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020 · Self - Readings
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Irene Ruddock
Trying
2020 · Penny
Flesh and Blood
2020 · Mary Bennett
A Confession As Told By ITV News
2019 · Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
Downton Abbey
2019 · Maud Bagshaw
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Knotgrass
A Confession
2019 · Karen Edwards
Finding Your Feet
2017 · Sandra Abbott
Paddington 2
2017 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017 · Martha
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: Follies
2017 · Sally Durant Plummer
Little Bird
2017 · First Officer Simpkins
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
2016 · Self
The Crown
2016 · Queen Elizabeth II
Gypsy
2015 · Rose
Maleficent
2014 · Knotgrass
Pride
2014 · Hefina
Paddington
2014 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
That Day We Sang
2014 · Enid
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014 · Self
Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014 · Rowena Rabbit (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 · Shrew (voice)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012 · Queen Victoria (voice)
The Girl
2012 · Alma Reville Hitchcock
London: The Modern Babylon
2012 · Spoken Quotations (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2012 · Mrs. Lovett
The Story of Musicals
2012 · Self – Narrator (voice)
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Mrs Santa (voice)
The Awakening
2011 · Maud Hill
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Talking Flowers (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Dolores Umbridge
Another Year
2010 · Janet
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010 · Grace Andrews
White Other
2010 · Lynne McDermott
The Michael Ball Show
2010 · Self
Taking Woodstock
2009 · Sonia Teichberg
Adapting Austen
2009 · Self
Psychoville
2009 · Grace Andrews
Three and Out
2008 · Rosemary Cassidy
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · Mary
Clay
2008 · Mary Doonan
Big & Small
2008 · Twiba / Ruby (voice), Twiba (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Dolores Umbridge
Freedom Writers
2007 · Margaret Campbell
How About You...
2007 · Hazel Nightingale
Guilty Hearts
2007 · Naomi
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007 · Self
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
2007 · Angela
Cranford
2007 · Miss Pole
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
Shadow Man
2006 · Ambassador Cochran
The Wind in the Willows
2006 · Barge Lady
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
2006 · Herself
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
2006
The One Show
2006 · Self
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Mrs. Blatherwick
My Family and Other Animals
2005 · Mother
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Fingersmith
2005 · Mrs. Sucksby
Doctor Who
2005 · Interface (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Vera Drake
2004 · Vera Drake
Blackball
2003 · Bridget
I'll Be There
2003 · Dr. Bridget
Bright Young Things
2003 · Lady Brown
The Virgin of Liverpool
2003 · Sylvia Conlon
Strange
2003 · Reverend Mary Truegood
Cambridge Spies
2003 · The Queen
Little Britain
2003 · Mrs. Mead
Crush
2002 · Janine
Ready
2002 · Naomi
Murder
2002 · DCI Billie Dory
Another Life
2001 · Ethel Graydon
Chicken Run
2000 · Bunty (voice)
Rat
2000 · Conchita Flynn
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Mrs. Cottisloe
Jack and the Beanstalk
1999 · Dilly (voice)
David Copperfield
1999 · Mrs. Micawber
Shakespeare in Love
1998 · Nurse
Remember Me?
1997 · Lorna
The Ugly Duckling
1997 · Scruffy (voice)
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Christine Cooper
Twelfth Night
1996 · Maria
The Adventures of Toad
1996 · Voice
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996 · Elspeth / Rowena (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Charlotte Jennings Palmer
Citizen X
1995 · Mrs. Burakov
The Adventures of Mole
1995 · Voice
The Snow Queen
1995 · Ivy / Angorra
The Pen
1995
The Wind in the Willows
1995 · Mother Squirrel
Is It Legal?
1995
Look at the State We're In!
1995 · Councillor Johnson
Deadly Advice
1994 · Beth Greenwood
Mole's Christmas
1994 · (voices)
Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Margaret
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993 · Bridget Bennet
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 · Muriel Spry
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993 · Susan
Peter's Friends
1992 · Mary Charleston
Roots
1992 · Jenny Beales
A Masculine Ending
1992 · Bridget Bennet
They Never Slept
1991 · The Producer
Performance
1991 · Jenny Beales
Yellowbacks
1990 · Cheryl Newman
Antonia and Jane
1990 · Jane Hartman
The Englishman's Wife
1990 · Stephanie
Up the Garden Path
1990
The Heat of the Day
1989 · Louie
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Sarah
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
Thompson
1988 · Self
The Play on One
1988 · Cheryl Newman
Comrades
1987 · Betsy Loveless
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Polly Flinders
The Singing Detective
1986 · Staff Nurse White
Ladies in Charge
1986 · Edith
ScreenPlay
1986 · Jane Hartman, Stephanie
Screen Two
1985 · The Producer
Natural World
1983 · Narrator
Easy Money
1982 · Mary Price
Playhouse
1974 · Mary Price
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee