Imelda Staunton
Born in Archway, London, England, UK — Jan 09 1956
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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…
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Doctor Who
Interface (voice)
Midsomer Murders
Christine Cooper
The Crown
Queen Elizabeth II
Playhouse
Mary Price
Screen Two
The Producer
Natural World
Narrator
Tales from the Crypt
Sarah
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dolores Umbridge
Performance
Jenny Beales
The Oscars
Self
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Polly Flinders
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Dolores Umbridge
Little Britain
Mrs. Mead
Maleficent
Knotgrass
Alice in Wonderland
Talking Flowers (voice)
Trying
Penny
Cranford
Miss Pole
Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Jennings Palmer
The Play on One
Cheryl Newman
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Knotgrass
Chicken Run
Bunty (voice)
Paddington 2
Aunt Lucy (voice)
Strange
Reverend Mary Truegood
Paddington
Aunt Lucy (voice)
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Psychoville
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Bunty (voice)
Paddington in Peru
Aunt Lucy (voice)
Nanny McPhee
Mrs. Blatherwick
Cambridge Spies
The Queen
Big & Small
Twiba / Ruby (voice, British version)
ShakespeaRe-Told
Lily's Driftwood Bay
Rowena Rabbit (voice)
The Singing Detective
Staff Nurse White
Fingersmith
Mrs. Sucksby
The Michael Ball Show
Self
Freedom Writers
Margaret Campbell
David Copperfield
Mrs. Micawber
A Confession
Karen Edwards
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Maud Bagshaw
Pride
Hefina
Downton Abbey
Maud Bagshaw
The Awakening
Maud Hill
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Susan
Murder
DCI Billie Dory
Shakespeare in Love
Nurse
Arthur Christmas
Mrs Santa (voice)
Flesh and Blood
Mary Bennett
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Irene Ruddock
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Queen Victoria (voice)
The Story of Musicals
Self – Narrator (voice)
Ladies in Charge
Edith
Thompson
Self
Much Ado About Nothing
Margaret
Twelfth Night
Maria
Look at the State We're In!
Councillor Johnson
Amulet
Sister Claire
Taking Woodstock
Sonia Teichberg
Bright Young Things
Lady Brown
The Girl
Alma Reville Hitchcock
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs Umney (voice)
Shadow Man
Ambassador Cochran
Vera Drake
Vera Drake
Another Year
Janet
Citizen X
Mrs. Burakov
Is It Legal?
Peter's Friends
Mary Charleston
Blackball
Bridget
Rat
Conchita Flynn
& Sons
Isabel
Comrades
Betsy Loveless
Don't Leave Me This Way
Bridget Bennet
The Snow Queen
Ivy / Angorra
My Family and Other Animals
Mother
Antonia and Jane
Jane Hartman
Gypsy
Rose
Finding Your Feet
Sandra Abbott
Deadly Advice
Beth Greenwood
Crush
Janine
If You See God, Tell Him
Muriel Spry
Clay
Mary Doonan
Remember Me?
Lorna
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
Three and Out
Rosemary Cassidy
Another Life
Ethel Graydon
Yellowbacks
Cheryl Newman
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Narrator
The Wind in the Willows
Barge Lady
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Elspeth / Rowena (voice)
London: The Modern Babylon
Spoken Quotations (voice)
The Ugly Duckling
Scruffy (voice)
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Self - Readings
A Bunch of Amateurs
Mary
Up the Garden Path
Guilty Hearts
Naomi
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Mrs. Cottisloe
I'll Be There
Dr. Bridget
The Adventures of Toad
Voice
A Masculine Ending
Bridget Bennet
Psychoville Halloween Special
Grace Andrews
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
How About You...
Hazel Nightingale
National Theatre Live: Follies
Sally Durant Plummer
That Day We Sang
Enid
Little Bird
First Officer Simpkins
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
Angela
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
reader
The Heat of the Day
Louie
Jack and the Beanstalk
Dilly (voice)
The Virgin of Liverpool
Sylvia Conlon
They Never Slept
The Producer
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha
Roots
Jenny Beales
The Wind in the Willows
Mother Squirrel
Adapting Austen
Self
The Adventures of Mole
Voice
The Pen
The Englishman's Wife
Stephanie
Easy Money
Mary Price
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
Mrs Peggy Warren
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Herself
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
Self
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
Self
White Other
Lynne McDermott
Testimony
Narrator (voice)
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
Self
A Confession As Told By ITV News
Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
Ready
Naomi
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Shrew (voice)
Mole's Christmas
(voices)
Victorian Britain on Film
Narrator
The Far Traveller
Narrator
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
Self - Narrator
Tommy & Tuppence
Aunt Ada