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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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Storage | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
| 35% |
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Back to Black | Cynthia (Character) | $6.0M | 2024 |
| 45% | No Score Yet | The Critic | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 94% |
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | Ada Harris (Character) | $10.3M | 2022 |
| 85% |
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Let Him Go | Blanche Weboy (Character) | $9.4M | 2020 |
| 87% |
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Misbehaviour | Dolores Hope (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 93% |
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Ordinary Love | Joan (Character) | $321.4K | 2019 |
| 39% |
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Flittle (Character) | $113.9M | 2019 |
| 43% |
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Hampstead | Fiona (Character) | $146.4K | 2017 |
| 91% |
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Phantom Thread | Cyril (Character) | $20.9M | 2017 |
| 18% |
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Rupture | Dr. Nyman (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 29% |
|
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% |
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Mr. Turner | Mary Somerville (Character) | $4.2M | 2014 |
| 54% |
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Maleficent | Flittle (Character) | $241.4M | 2014 |
| 62% |
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I Travel Alone | Kate Sherman (Character) | $306.4K | 2013 |
| 96% |
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An Adventure in Space and Time | Heather Hartnell (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 21% |
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The Christmas Candle | Bea Haddington (Character) | $2.1M | 2013 |
| 24% |
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Romeo & Juliet | Nurse (Character) | $1.2M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
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Ashes | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 43% |
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Spike Island | Margaret (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 35% |
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Womb | Judith (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 92% |
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Another Year | Mary (Character) | $3.2M | 2010 |
| 52% |
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Disney's A Christmas Carol | Mrs. Cratchit (Voice) | $137.9M | 2009 |
| 78% | No Score Yet | Sparkle | Jill (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
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Perfect Parents | Sister Antonia (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Agatha Christie's Poirot: Cards on the Table | Mrs. Lorrimer (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 40% |
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael | Sarah Carmichael (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 93% |
|
Vera Drake | Mrs. Wells (Character) | $3.8M | 2004 |
| 82% |
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All or Nothing | Penny (Character) | $112.9K | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Plain Jane | Dora Bruce (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
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Milk | Fiona (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 90% |
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Topsy-Turvy | Lucy Gilbert ('Kitty') (Character) | $6.2M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
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Painted Lady | Susie Peel (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silent Witness: Fallen Idol | Suzy Franklin (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 96% |
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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 |
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The Firm | Sue (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 92% |
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High Hopes | Laetitia Boothe-Brain (Character) | $28.0K | 1988 |
| 67% |
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High Season | Carol (Character) | $29.2K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet |
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Grown-Ups | Mandy (Character) | - | 1980 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disclaimer | Nancy (Character) | 2024 |
| 100% | 71% | 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% | 51% | World on Fire | Robina Chase (Character) | 2019 2023 |
| 51% | 63% | 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% | 83% | Life After Life | Narrator | 2022 |
| 100% | 79% | 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% | 74% | 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% | 85% | 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 | 89% | North and South | Maria Hale (Character) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | North & 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 |