Lesley Manville

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-03-12 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Brighton, England, UK

Lesley Manville

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).

Acting

2024

Back to Black

as Cynthia

1996

Secrets & Lies

as The Social Worker

2004

Vera Drake

as Mrs. Wells

2002

1985

2007

Sparkle

as Jill

1999

Milk

as Fiona

2010

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

-

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

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

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

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

LOVE

as Herself/Introduced By

2020

Misbehaviour

as Dolores Hope

2010

2019

2017

The Agency

as Anthea

2020

Let Him Go

as Blanche Weboy

2002

Plain Jane

as Dora Bruce

2001

David Copperfield

as Emma Micawber

1994

1999

Toy Boys

as Mrs. Allen

2022

1992

Bad Girl

as Penny Armitage

1982

Production

2022

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

as Executive Producer

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