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Lesley Manville

Highest Rated: 97% Mr. Turner (2014)

Lowest Rated: 18% Rupture (2016)

Birthday: Mar 12, 1956

Birthplace: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

A versatile character actress and occasional lead in British films and television, Lesley Manville was an important member of Mike Leigh's improvisational acting company, with committed and deeply moving turns in films like "All Or Nothing" (2002), "Vera Drake" (2004)" and "Another Year" (2010). Manville's career began as a teenager on television and the English stage, but after meeting Leigh in 1979, she soon became a regular in his features after 1988's "High Hopes." Though her feature appearances were sporadic - she was found more frequently on television, most notably in "The Firm" (BBC, 1988) with her one-time husband, Gary Oldman, and on stage - her work with Leigh, as well as in other films like "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" (1987) and "Sparkle" (2009), marked her as an exceptional talent whose true star quality was yet to be fully discovered.

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Highest rated movies

97% 56% Mr. Turner
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96% 91% Secrets & Lies
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96% 92% An Adventure in Space and Time
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94% 93% Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Watchlist 93% 69% Ordinary Love Watchlist
93% 84% Vera Drake
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93% 74% Another Year
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92% 85% High Hopes
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91% 70% Phantom Thread Watchlist
90% 79% Topsy-Turvy
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cold Storage Unknown (Character) - 2025
76% 58% Queer Dr. Cotter (Character) - 2024
35% 85% Back to Black Cynthia (Character) $6.0M 2024
49% 67% The Critic Annabel Land (Character) - 2023
94% 93% Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Ada Harris (Character) $10.3M 2022
85% 76% Let Him Go Blanche Weboy (Character) $9.4M 2020
87% 58% Misbehaviour Dolores Hope (Character) - 2020
93% 69% Ordinary Love Joan (Character) $321.4K 2019
40% 95% Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Flittle (Character) $113.9M 2019
43% 41% Hampstead Fiona (Character) $146.4K 2017
91% 70% Phantom Thread Cyril (Character) $20.9M 2017
18% 17% Rupture Dr. Nyman (Character) - 2016
29% 40% Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism Miss Adderstone (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Go-Between Mrs Maudsley (Character) - 2015
97% 56% Mr. Turner Mary Somerville (Character) $4.2M 2014
54% 70% Maleficent Flittle (Character) $241.4M 2014
62% 48% I Travel Alone Kate Sherman (Character) $306.4K 2013
96% 92% An Adventure in Space and Time Heather Hartnell (Character) - 2013
22% 74% The Christmas Candle Bea Haddington (Character) $2.1M 2013
24% 46% Romeo & Juliet Nurse (Character) $1.2M 2013
No Score Yet 18% Ashes Unknown (Character) - 2012
43% 44% Spike Island Margaret (Character) - 2012
35% 46% Womb Judith (Character) - 2010
93% 74% Another Year Mary (Character) $3.2M 2010
52% 58% Disney's A Christmas Carol Mrs. Cratchit (Voice) $137.9M 2009
78% No Score Yet Sparkle Jill (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 80% Perfect Parents Sister Antonia (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Agatha Christie's Poirot: Cards on the Table Mrs. Lorrimer (Character) - 2005
33% 31% The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael Sarah Carmichael (Character) - 2005
93% 84% Vera Drake Mrs. Wells (Character) $3.8M 2004
82% 81% All or Nothing Penny (Character) $112.9K 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Plain Jane Dora Bruce (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 29% Milk Fiona (Character) - 1999
90% 79% Topsy-Turvy Lucy Gilbert ('Kitty') (Character) $6.2M 1999
No Score Yet 62% Painted Lady Susie Peel (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Silent Witness: Fallen Idol Suzy Franklin (Character) - 1997
96% 91% Secrets & Lies Social Worker (Character) $13.4M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mushroom Picker Margot (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Girl Penny Armitage (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Real Women Karen (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Top Girls Unknown (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 81% The Firm Sue (Character) - 1988
92% 85% High Hopes Laetitia Boothe-Brain (Character) $28.0K 1988
67% 12% High Season Carol (Character) $29.2K 1987
No Score Yet 72% Grown-Ups Mandy (Character) - 1980

TV

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76% 62% Disclaimer Nancy (Character) 2024
75% 54% Grotesquerie Nurse Redd (Character) 2024
100% No Score Yet Moonflower Murders Susan Ryeland (Character) 2024
96% 74% Sherwood Julie Jackson (Character) 2022 2024
81% 92% The Crown Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Character) 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Self 2023
92% 52% World on Fire Robina Chase (Character) 2019 2023
51% 62% Citadel Dahlia Archer (Character) 2023
47% 75% Dangerous Liaisons Marquise de Merteuil (Character) 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2022
100% 88% Life After Life Narrator 2022
100% 81% Magpie Murders Susan Ryeland (Character) 2022
88% No Score Yet I Am Maria (Character) 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Talking Heads Susan (Character) 2020
79% 75% Love Life Narrator 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2020
97% 91% Harlots Lydia Quigley (Character) 2017-2019
100% 87% Mum Cathy (Character) 2016 2018-2019
100% 95% River Unknown (Character) 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Timeshift Narrator 2015
57% No Score Yet Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Evelyn St. Croix Fleming (Character) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mayday Unknown (Character) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to Cranford on Masterpiece Mrs Rose (Character) 2007 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Queen Unknown (Character) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet North & South Maria Hale (Character) 2004
No Score Yet 92% North and South Maria Hale (Character) 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cazalets Villy Cazalet (Character) 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 1998