Imelda Staunton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-01-09 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Archway, London, England, UK

Imelda Staunton

Biography

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 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 a Supporting Role in a Play for her work in both A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is G...

Acting

2007

Freedom Writers

as Margaret Campbell

1995

Sense and Sensibility

as Charlotte Jennings Palmer

2004

Vera Drake

as Vera Drake

2005

Nanny McPhee

as Mrs. Blatherwick

2000

Chicken Run

as Bunty (voice)

1992

Peter's Friends

as Mary Charleston

1993

2010

Alice in Wonderland

as Talking Flowers (voice)

2009

Taking Woodstock

as Sonia Teichberg

2020

2006

Shadow Man

as Ambassador Cochran

2007

How About You...

as Hazel Nightingale

2006

2008

Three and Out

as Rosemary Cassidy

2003

Blackball

as Bridget

2010

Another Year

as Janet

1996

1992

Roots

as Jenny Beales

2002

Crush

as Janine

2003

I'll Be There

as Dr. Bridget

1990

Yellowbacks

as Cheryl Newman

2007

2011

Arthur Christmas

as Mrs Santa (voice)

2001

Another Life

as Ethel Graydon

1990

Antonia and Jane

as Jane Hartman

2024

Paddington in Peru

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

2011

The Awakening

as Maud Hill

2014

Maleficent

as Knotgrass

2022

2012

The Girl

as Alma Reville Hitchcock

2000

Rat

as Conchita Flynn

1994

Deadly Advice

as Beth Greenwood

2014

Pride

as Hefina

1991

They Never Slept

as The Producer

1990

2010

2023

The Canterville Ghost

as Mrs Umney (voice)

2014

Paddington

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

2014

2019

A Confession As Told By ITV News

as Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards

2003

Bright Young Things

as Lady Brown

2015

Gypsy

as Rose

2003

The Virgin of Liverpool

as Sylvia Conlon

1993

Don't Leave Me This Way

as Bridget Bennet

1994

Mole's Christmas

as (voices)

1995

Citizen X

as Mrs. Burakov

1992

A Masculine Ending

as Bridget Bennet

2012

London: The Modern Babylon

as Spoken Quotations (voice)

2017

Finding Your Feet

as Sandra Abbott

1997

The Ugly Duckling

as Scruffy (voice)

1987

Comrades

as Betsy Loveless

2017

Paddington 2

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

2008

Clay

as Mary Doonan

2017

National Theatre Live: Follies

as Sally Durant Plummer

2019

Downton Abbey

as Maud Bagshaw

1982

Easy Money

as Mary Price

2017

Little Bird

as First Officer Simpkins

2010

White Other

as Lynne McDermott

2020

Amulet

as Sister Claire

1995

The Snow Queen

as Ivy / Angorra

2002

Ready

as Naomi

1996

The Snow Queen's Revenge

as Elspeth / Rowena (voice)

1995

The Wind in the Willows

as Mother Squirrel

1999

Jack and the Beanstalk

as Dilly (voice)

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