Imelda Staunton
After years of toiling in supporting roles, often taking whatever came her way, actress Imelda Staunton finally received the chance to display her considerable talents when she starred as the titular character in director Mike Leigh's period drama, "Vera Drake" (2004), a role that earned the British thespian a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Prior to her critical success on both sides of the pond, Staunton worked hard to gain prominence in her native England, spending almost three decades in small supporting roles on stage, television and in film. Though she considered herself a serious actress, Staunton relied on song and dance in the early days of her career, establishing a small degree of success for her leading role in "Guys and Dolls." Over the course of the theatre portion of her career, she managed to win several Olivier Awards, though she found her transition to the screen slow and arduous. But with "Vera Drake," Staunton blew the Hollywood doors wide open, leading to bigger and better roles in films like "Nanny McPhee" (2006), "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007) and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), proving that talent always wins out in the end no matter how long the struggle.
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Imelda Staunton
Filmography
Movies
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94% | No Score Yet | Paddington in Peru | Aunt Lucy (Voice) | - | 2024 |
83% |
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Bunty (Voice) | - | 2023 |
57% |
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The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Umney (Voice) | - | 2023 |
86% |
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Downton Abbey: A New Era | Maud Bagshaw (Character) | $43.3M | 2022 |
93% |
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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | - | 2022 |
73% |
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Amulet | Sister Claire (Character) | - | 2020 |
40% |
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Knotgrass (Character) | $113.9M | 2019 |
84% |
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Downton Abbey | Lady Bagshaw (Character) | $96.8M | 2019 |
70% |
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Finding Your Feet | Sandra (Character) | $1.4M | 2017 |
99% |
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Paddington 2 | Aunt Lucy (Voice) | $38.4M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Bird | First Officer Simpkins (Character) | - | 2017 |
97% |
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Paddington | Aunt Lucy (Voice) | - | 2014 |
93% |
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Pride | Hefina (Character) | $1.4M | 2014 |
54% |
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Maleficent | Knotgrass (Character) | $241.4M | 2014 |
87% |
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Queen Victoria (Voice) | $375.9K | 2012 |
70% |
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The Girl | Alma Hitchcock (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pirates! An Adventure With Scientists | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
64% |
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The Awakening | Maud Hill (Character) | $90.3K | 2011 |
92% |
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Arthur Christmas | Mrs. Santa (Voice) | $46.4M | 2011 |
93% |
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Another Year | Janet (Character) | $3.2M | 2010 |
77% |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Dolores Umbridge (Character) | $295.0M | 2010 |
48% |
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Taking Woodstock | Sonia Teichberg (Character) | $7.4M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clay | Mary Doonan (Character) | - | 2008 |
17% |
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Three and Out | Rosemary Cassidy (Character) | - | 2008 |
64% |
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How About You | Hazel (Character) | $77.6K | 2007 |
78% |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Dolores Umbridge (Character) | $292.0M | 2007 |
70% |
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Freedom Writers | Margaret Campbell (Character) | $36.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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3 & 3 | Naomi (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Wind in the Willows | Barge Lady (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadow Man | Ambassador Cochran (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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My Family and Other Animals | Mother (Character) | - | 2005 |
74% |
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Nanny McPhee | Mrs. Blatherwick (Character) | $47.1M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Fingersmith | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
93% |
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Vera Drake | Vera Drake (Character) | $3.8M | 2004 |
60% |
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I'll Be There | Dr. Bridget (Character) | - | 2003 |
38% |
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Blackball | Bridget (Character) | - | 2003 |
66% |
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Bright Young Things | Lady Brown (Character) | $931.8K | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ready | Naomi (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Another Life | Ethel Graydon (Character) | - | 2001 |
36% |
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Crush | Janine (Character) | $1.1M | 2001 |
97% |
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Chicken Run | Bunty (Voice) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Rat | Conchita (Character) | $3.0K | 2000 |
92% |
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Shakespeare in Love | Nurse (Character) | $100.2M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Remember Me? | Lorna (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ugly Duckling | Scruffy (Voice) | - | 1997 |
76% |
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Twelfth Night | Maria (Character) | $551.5K | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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The Snow Queen |
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- | 1995 |
86% |
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Citizen X | Mrs. Burakova (Character) | - | 1995 |
97% |
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Sense and Sensibility | Charlotte Palmer (Character) | $42.0M | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Advice | Beth Greenwood (Character) | - | 1994 |
90% |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Margaret (Character) | $22.5M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Leave Me This Way | Bridget Bennet (Character) | - | 1993 |
65% |
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Peter's Friends | Mary Charleston (Character) | $4.1M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Masculine Ending | Bridget Bennet (Character) | - | 1992 |
100% |
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Antonia and Jane | Jane Hartman (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They Never Slept | The Producer (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heat of the Day | Louie (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Sleeping Life | Polly Flinders (Character) | - | 1988 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 89% | Brassic | Edie (Character) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2018 2020 2023 |
81% | 92% | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II (Character) | 2022-2023 |
95% | 91% | Trying | Penny (Character) | 2020-2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Talking Heads | Irene Ruddock (Character) | 2020 |
90% | No Score Yet | Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece | Mary (Character) | 2020 |
93% | 85% | A Confession | Karen Edward (Character) | 2019 |
90% | 64% | Doctor Who | Interface (Guest Voice) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Classic | Unknown (Character) | 2008 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return to Cranford on Masterpiece | Miss Octavia Pole (Character) | 2007 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Barge Lady (Character) | 2006-2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fingersmith | Mrs. Sucksby (Character) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Midsomer Murders | Christine Cooper (Character) | 1999 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bit of Fry & Laurie | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Singing Detective | Staff Nurse White (Character) | 1986 |