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Name
Lesley Manville

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1956-03-12 (70 years old)

Place of Birth
Brighton, England, UK

Biography

Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2024 Back to Black as Cynthia
1996 Secrets & Lies as The Social Worker
2004 Vera Drake as Mrs. Wells
2022 Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men as The Mother
2002 All or Nothing as Penny
1985 Dance with a Stranger as Maryanne
1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Margy
2026 Cold Storage as Trini Romano
2007 Sparkle as Jill
1999 Milk as Fiona
2010 Another Year as Mary
2005 The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael as Sarah
1999 Topsy-Turvy as Lucy Gilbert
1989 High Hopes as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
2024 Queer as Doctor Cotter
2009 A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
1989 The Firm as Sue Bissell
2026 Midwinter Break as Stella
2013 Romeo & Juliet as The Nurse
2010 Womb as Judith
2014 Maleficent as Flittle
1987 High Season as Carol
2012 Spike Island as Margaret
2013 A Five Star Life as Kate Sherman
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time as Heather Hartnell
1991 Top Girls as Marlene
2013 The Christmas Candle as Bea Haddington
2024 The Critic as Annabel Land
2014 Mr. Turner as Mary Somerville
2014 Ghosts as Helene Alving
1984 Angels in the Annexe as Jenny Bailey
2012 Ashes as Cath
1997 Dual Balls as Joanna
2026 Winter of the Crow as Joan Andrews
2025 Mr. Burton as Ma Smith
2016 Rupture as Dr. Nyman
1980 Grown-Ups as Mandy
2015 The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Adderstone
2015 A Very British Brothel as Herself - Narrator (voice)
2006 Perfect Parents as Sister Antonia
2017 A Very British Brothel 2 as Narrator (Voice)
1985 The Moon Over Soho as Sally Spencer
1982 Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
2003 Promoted to Glory as Capt. Annie Sullivan
2014 The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2017 Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
2017 Hampstead as Fiona
1984 Dog Ends as Vivienne
1985 Christmas Present as Judy Tall
2018 To Provide All People as Consultant Psychiatrist
2018 National Theatre Live: LOVE as Herself/Introduced By
2020 Misbehaviour as Dolores Hope
2019 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Flittle
2019 Ordinary Love as Joan
2017 The Agency as Anthea
2020 Let Him Go as Blanche Weboy
2002 Plain Jane as Dora Bruce
2001 David Copperfield as Emma Micawber
1993 A Statement of Affairs as Carol
1994 O Mary This London as Sophie
1999 Toy Boys as Mrs. Allen
2022 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Ada Harris
1992 Bad Girl as Penny Armitage
1982 Our Winnie as Liz
2016 Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
Soon Jack of Spades
2026 National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as Marquise de Merteuil

1994 Ain't Misbehavin' ( 6 episodes ) as Melissa Quigley
1980 The Gentle Touch ( 2 episodes )
1996 Silent Witness ( 1 episode )
2009 Law & Order: UK ( 2 episodes )
2000 Other People's Children ( 4 episodes ) as Nadine
1996 The Bite ( 2 episodes ) as Ellie Shannon
2007 Cranford ( 7 episodes ) as Mrs. Rose
2022 Magpie Murders ( 6 episodes ) as Susan Ryeland
2001 The Cazalets ( 6 episodes ) as Villy Cazalet
1997 Painted Lady ( 2 episodes ) as Susie Peel
2009 The Queen ( 5 episodes ) as Margaret Thatcher
2014 Fleming ( 4 episodes ) as Evelyn Fleming
2019 I Am... ( 1 episode ) as Maria
2013 Mayday ( 5 episodes ) as Gail Spicer
2016 The Crown ( 20 episodes ) as Princess Margaret
2015 River ( 6 episodes ) as Chrissie Read
2020 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads ( 1 episode ) as Susan
2016 Mum ( 18 episodes ) as Cathy
2022 Sherwood ( 12 episodes ) as Julie Jackson
2022 Dangerous Liaisons ( 8 episodes ) as Genevieve de Merteuil
2024 Disclaimer ( 7 episodes ) as Nancy Brigstocke
2017 Harlots ( 16 episodes ) as Lydia Quigley
1995 Kavanagh Q.C. ( 1 episode ) as Lucy Cartwright
1977 King Cinder ( 6 episodes ) as Nikki
2022 Life After Life ( 4 episodes ) as Narrator
2002 Bodily Harm ( 2 episodes ) as Mandy Greenfield
1993 Goggle Eyes ( 4 episodes ) as Rosalind Killin
1995 Tears Before Bedtime ( 4 episodes ) as Beattie Freeman
2024 Moonflower Murders ( 6 episodes ) as Susan Ryeland
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2019 World on Fire ( 13 episodes ) as Robina Chase
1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Lorrimer
2024 Grotesquerie ( 10 episodes ) as Nurse Redd
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1991 Soldier Soldier ( 2 episodes ) as Rachel Elliot
1991 Soldier Soldier ( 3 episodes ) as Rachel Fortune
1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Vivienne
1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Phoebe Archbold
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Marlene
1960 Coronation Street ( 2 episodes ) as Jill Mason
2023 Citadel ( 13 episodes ) as Dahlia Archer
1999 Loose Women ( 1 episode ) as Self
1982 Objects of Affection ( 1 episode ) as Liz
2020 Love Life ( 10 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
1993 The Mushroom Picker ( 3 episodes ) as Margot
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Sophie
2004 North & South ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs. Maria Hale
Soon Marble Hall Murders ( 1 episode ) as Susan Ryeland
1974 Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mandy
1977 A Bunch of Fives ( 14 episodes ) as Helen Wyatt
2025 Monster: The Ed Gein Story ( 3 episodes ) as Bernice Worden
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2000 Black Cab ( 1 episode ) as Yvonne
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Sue
1994 Little Napoleons ( 4 episodes ) as Judith Silver
1997 Holding On ( 7 episodes ) as Hilary
2000 David Copperfield ( 2 episodes ) as Emma Micawber
1986 ScreenPlay ( 1 episode ) as Penny Armitage
2002 Rose and Maloney ( 2 episodes ) as Professor Diane Marquis
Soon Escorted ( 1 episode ) as Mother
1984 Sharing Time ( 1 episode ) as June

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