Imelda Staunton

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Dame
Imelda Staunton
DBE
Imelda Staunton, October 2019.jpg
Staunton in 2019
Born
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton

(1956-01-09) 9 January 1956 (age 68)
Archway, London, England
Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1976–present
Spouse
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(m. 1983)​
Children Bessie Carter
Awards Full list

Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton DBE (born 9 January 1956) [1] 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. Over her career, she has received several awards including a British Academy Film Award, and four Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three British Academy Television Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Emmy Awards.

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Known for her many roles on the West End stage, Staunton has received thirteen Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning the Best Supporting Role in a Play for her work in both A Chorus of Disapproval / The Corn Is Green (1985) followed by three wins for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in the musicals Into the Woods (1991), Sweeney Todd (2013), and Gypsy (2016). She was also Olivier-nominated for The Beggar's Opera (1982), The Wizard of Oz (1988), Uncle Vanya (1988), Guys and Dolls (1997), Entertaining Mr Sloane (2010), Good People (2015), and Follies (2018).

On film, Staunton took early roles in films such as Peter's Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Staunton won a BAFTA Award for playing the title role of a working class woman in Vera Drake (2004). She later gained a wider audience for her role as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films The Order of the Phoenix (2007) and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2011). She also acted in Nanny McPhee , Another Year (2010), Pride (2014), and Downton Abbey (2019), and provide voiced roles in Chicken Run (2000), Arthur Christmas (2011), and Paddington (2014).

On television, Staunton starred in the sitcoms Up the Garden Path from (1990–1993) and Is it Legal? (1995–1998). She received Primetime Emmy Award and British Academy Television Award nominations for her portrayals of Alma Hitchcock in the HBO television film The Girl (2012) and Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix historical series The Crown (2022–2023). [2] [3] Staunton also took roles in Antonia and Jane (1990), Citizen X (1995), David Copperfield (1999), My Family and Other Animals (2005), Return to Cranford (2007), and Flesh and Blood (2020).

Early life and education

Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie (née McNicholas), a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a labourer. [4] [5] They lived over Staunton's mother's salon. [6] Her parents were immigrants from County Mayo, Ireland; [7] her father from Ballyvary and her mother from Bohola. [8] Her mother, a musician, had played in Irish showbands; while she could not read music, she could play almost any tune by ear on the accordion or fiddle. [7] When Staunton was in her teens, her parents separated, both later meeting new partners.

As a pupil at La Sainte Union Catholic School, [9] Staunton took drama classes with her elocution teacher and had starring roles in school plays, including that of Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera . [7] [10] Encouraged by her teacher, she auditioned for drama schools: while the Central School of Speech and Drama and Guildhall School of Music and Drama did not extend offers to her, [10] she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at age 18. [11]

Acting career

Theatre

Staunton graduated from RADA in 1976, [12] [13] then spent six years in British repertory theatre, including a period at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, where she had the title role in Shaw's Saint Joan (1979). She then moved on to roles the National Theatre, including Lucy Lockit in The Beggar's Opera (1982), which earned her Olivier Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical and Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre. [14] She also appeared in two revivals of Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre; the first in 1982 in which she met her husband Jim Carter [15] and the second in 1996 in which she played Miss Adelaide and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. [16]

In 1985, Staunton won her first Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her work in both The Corn Is Green at The Old Vic and A Chorus of Disapproval at the National Theatre. [17] She also played Dorothy Gale in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987 revival of The Wizard of Oz at the Barbican Centre, [18] [19] which earned her another Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. [20] Staunton won her first Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for playing the Baker's Wife in the original London production of Into the Woods (1990). [21]

In the ensuing 20 years, Staunton mainly had roles in plays, including Sonya in Uncle Vanya (1988), Kath in Entertaining Mr Sloane (2009) and Good People (2014), for which she received Olivier nominations for Best Actress in a Play. She also appeared in two productions at the Almeida Theatre, firstly in the premiere of Frank McGuinness's There Came a Gypsy Riding in 2007 and secondly in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance in 2011.

Most recently, Staunton has appeared in two Chichester Festival Theatre productions, taking on the role of Mrs. Lovett in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd between 2011 and 2012, starring opposite Michael Ball, before starring as Rose in a revival of Gypsy between 2014 and 2015. [22] Both productions transferred to London for critically and commercially acclaimed runs. [23] Staunton won her second and third Olivier Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for the two productions in 2013 and 2016 respectively. [24]

Staunton returned to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London West End in 2017 as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , starring alongside Conleth Hill, Luke Treadaway and Imogen Poots at the Harold Pinter Theatre. [25] This play was broadcast in National Theatre Live on 18 May 2017.

Staunton performed the role of Sally in the 2017 National Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies , alongside Janie Dee as Phyllis, and Philip Quast as Ben. [26] [27] The show was broadcast through the National Theatre Live initiative on 16 November 2017.

Film

Staunton at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 in 2011 Imelda Staunton.jpg
Staunton at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011

Staunton's first big-screen role came in a 1986 film Comrades . She then appeared in the 1991 film Antonia and Jane , and in the 1992 film Peter's Friends . Other film roles include performances in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Deadly Advice (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) Twelfth Night (1996), Chicken Run (2000), Another Life (2001), Bright Young Things (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Freedom Writers (2007) and How About You (2007).

Staunton shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love. In 2004, she received the Best Actress honours at the European Film Awards, the BAFTAs, and the Venice Film Festival for her performance of the title role in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake , which also won Best Picture. For the same role, she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Staunton portrayed Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), a performance described as "coming close to stealing the show". [28] She was nominated in the "British Actress in a Supporting Role" category at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. [29] Staunton reprised her role as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in 2010.

Other film roles include the 2008 movie A Bunch of Amateurs , in which she starred alongside Burt Reynolds, Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond, and the character of Sonia Teichberg in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock (2009). Staunton provided the voice of the Talking Flowers in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and played one of the lead roles in the ghost film The Awakening in 2011. [30] In 2012, she voiced Queen Victoria in the Aardman film The Pirates! Band of Misfits , where she serves as the main antagonist. In 2014, she co-starred in Maleficent as well as the British comedy-drama Pride .

In late 2014, she had a voice role in Paddington , a film based on the Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond. Staunton and her Harry Potter co-star Michael Gambon voiced Paddington's Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pastuzo, respectively.

An August 2018 announcement revealed that Staunton would be among the new cast to join the original actors in Downton Abbey which started principal photography at about the same time. [31]

Television work

In 1993, she appeared on television alongside Richard Briers and Adrian Edmondson in If You See God, Tell Him . Staunton also played the wife of Detective Burakov in the 1995 HBO movie, Citizen X , which recounted the pursuit and capture of Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. She has had other television parts in The Singing Detective (1986), Midsomer Murders , and the sitcom Is It Legal? (1995–98), as well as A Bit of Fry and Laurie . She was a voice artist on Mole's Christmas (1994). She had a guest role playing Mrs. Mead in Little Britain in 2005, and in 2007 played the free-thinking gossip, Miss Pole, in Cranford, the five-part BBC series based on Mrs Gaskell's novels. In 2011, she played Grace Andrews in the second series of Psychoville .

In 2011, she was the Voice of the Interface in the highly acclaimed and nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) episode of Doctor Who  – "The Girl Who Waited". In 2012, she portrayed Alma Reville, the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, in the HBO television movie The Girl , which also starred Toby Jones and Sienna Miller. Her performance saw her nominated for a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Since May 2020, Staunton stars in the Apple TV+ comedy series Trying. The first season premiered on 1 May 2020 and the second-season premieres on 14 May 2021, with the show already renewed for a third season. [32] On 31 January 2020, it was announced that she would be portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the fifth season of the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown . [33] On 9 July 2020, it was announced that the series had been extended to a sixth and final season, with Staunton again to reprise her role of the Queen. [34] [35] Staunton's performance in the fifth season earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. [36] Her performance in the sixth season earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. [37]

Radio

On radio, she has appeared in the title role of the detective drama series Julie Enfield Investigates , as the lead "Izzy Comyn" in the comedy Up the Garden Path (which later moved to ITV with Staunton reprising the role), in Diary of a Provincial Lady (from 1999), as "Courageous Kate" in Series 1 of Elephants to Catch Eels and as "Xanthippe" in Series 2 of Acropolis Now .

She starred opposite Anna Massey in the post-World War II mystery series Daunt and Dervish, and opposite Patrick Barlow in The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience . She played the role of a schoolboy as the lead character in the five part (15 minutes each): "The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth" for BBC Radio 4.

Other work

Staunton has narrated unabridged audio-book versions of many of Julia Donaldson's children's books, including The Gruffalo , The Gruffalo's Child , Monkey Puzzle , The Snail and the Whale , Stick Man and Zog , as well as other children's books. In 2014 she collaborated with her husband, Jim Carter, and Show of Hands on Centenary: Words and Music of the Great War, an album of songs and poetry from and inspired by World War I.

Staunton is also a patron for the Milton Rooms, a new arts centre in Malton, North Yorkshire along with Bill Nighy, Jools Holland and Kathy Burke. [38]

Personal life

Staunton and her husband, actor Jim Carter, have a daughter, Bessie, born in 1993. In 2007, they appeared in the BBC series Cranford , with Carter as Captain Brown and Bessie as a maid. [39] They live in West Hampstead. [40]

In 2014, Staunton's dog, Molly, appeared as Chowsie the dog in Gypsy at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 6 October to 8 November. Staunton played the leading role of Mama Rose. [41]

Staunton endorsed the Labour Party in the 2024 United Kingdom general election. [42]

Acting credits

Film

YearTitleRole(s)NotesRef(s)
1986 Comrades Betsy Loveless [43]
1992 Peter's Friends Mary Charleston [44]
1993 Much Ado About Nothing Margaret [45]
1994 Deadly Advice Beth Greenwood [46]
1995 The Snow Queen Ivy / Angorra Voice; Direct-to-video [47]
Sense and Sensibility Charlotte Palmer [48]
1996 Twelfth Night Maria [49]
The Snow Queen's Revenge Elspeth / RowenaVoice; Direct-to-video [50]
1997 Remember Me? Lorna [51]
The Ugly DucklingScruffyVoice; Direct-to-video [52]
1998 Shakespeare in Love Nurse [53]
1999Jack & the BeanstalkDillyVoice; Direct-to-video [54]
2000 Chicken Run BuntyVoice [55]
Rat Conchita Flynn [56]
2001 Another Life Ethel Graydon [57]
Crush Janine [58]
2002The Strange Case of Penny AllisonPenny Allison / Alison Ayling Short; Direct-to-video [59]
ReadyNaomiShort [a] [61]
2003The Virgin of LiverpoolSylvia Conlon [62]
Bright Young Things Lady Brown [63]
I'll Be There Dr. Bridget [64]
Blackball Bridget [65]
2004 Vera Drake Vera Drake [66]
2005 Nanny McPhee Mrs. Blatherwick [67]
2006 Shadow Man Ambassador CochranDirect-to-video [68]
2007 Freedom Writers Margaret Campbell [69]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dolores Umbridge [70]
How About You Hazel Nightingale [71]
2008 Three and Out Rosemary Cassidy [72]
A Bunch of Amateurs Mary [73]
2009 Taking Woodstock Sonia Teichberg [74]
2010 Alice in Wonderland Tall Flower FacesVoice [75]
Another Year Janet [76]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Dolores Umbridge [77]
2011 The Awakening Maud Hill [78]
Arthur Christmas Mrs. Santa Voice [79]
2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Queen Victoria Voice [80]
2014 Pride Hefina Headon [81]
Maleficent Knotgrass [82]
Paddington Aunt LucyVoice [83]
2017Little BirdFirst Officer SimpkinsShort [84]
[85]
Finding Your Feet Sandra Abbott [86]
Paddington 2 Aunt LucyVoice [87]
2019 Downton Abbey Lady Maud Bagshaw [88]
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Knotgrass [89]
2020 Amulet Sister Claire [90]
2022 Downton Abbey: A New Era Lady Maud Bagshaw [91]
2023 The Canterville Ghost Mrs. UmneyVoice [92]
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget BuntyVoice [93]
2024 Paddington in Peru Aunt LucyVoice [94]

Television

Year(s)TitleRole(s)NotesRef(s)
1982 Playhouse Mary PriceEpisode: "Easy Money" [95]
1986 Ladies in Charge EdithEpisode: "Double Act" [96]
The Singing Detective Staff Nurse White Miniseries; 5 episodes [96]
1988 Thompson Various rolesMiniseries; 6 episodes [96]
1989 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Polly Flinders3 episodes [96]
1990–1993 Up the Garden Path Izzy ComynMain role; 18 episodes [96]
1990 ScreenPlay Jane Hartman
Stephanie [b] 		Episode: "Antonia and Jane"
Episode: "The Englishman's Wife"		 [97]
[98]
The Play on One Cheryl NewmanEpisode: "Yellowbacks" [99]
Masterpiece LouieEpisode: "The Heat of the Day" [100]
1991 Screen Two The ProducerEpisode: "They Never Slept" [101]
1992 A Masculine Ending Bridget Bennet Television film [102]
Performance Jenny BealesEpisode: "Roots" [103]
1993Don't Leave Me This WayBridget BennetTelevision film [104]
If You See God, Tell Him Muriel SpryMiniseries; 4 episodes [96]
1994WoodcockEdnaTelevision film [105]
Frank Stubbs Promotes SusanEpisode: "Charity" [96]
Mole's Christmas Various roles Voice; Television film [106]
1995 Citizen X Mrs. BurakovTelevision film [107]
Look at the State We're In!Councillor JohnsonMiniseries; Episode: "Local Government" [96]
1995–1998 Is It Legal? Stella PhelpsMain role; 21 episodes [96]
1995The Adventures of MoleVarious rolesVoice; Television film [108]
1996The Adventures of ToadVarious rolesVoice; Television film [109]
Tales from the Crypt Sarah NevinEpisode: "About Face" [96]
1998–2000The Canterbury TalesThe PrioressMiniseries; 3 episodes [110]
[111]
1999 Midsomer Murders Christine CooperEpisode: "Dead Man's Eleven" [96]
David Copperfield Emma MicawberTwo-part television special [112]
2002 Murder DCI Billie DoryMiniseries; 4 episodes [113]
2003Let's Write a StoryMrs. Twit Docuseries; Episode: "Humour" [114]
[115]
Cambridge Spies Queen Elizabeth Miniseries; Episodes 2 and 4 [96]
Strange Reverend Mary TruegoodMiniseries; Episode: "Incubus" [96]
2005 Fingersmith Mrs. Sucksby3 episodes [116]
ShakespeaRe-Told Polly Moon Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [117]
Little Britain Mrs. MeadSeries 3, episode 6 [96]
My Family and Other Animals Louisa Durrell Television film [118]
2006DogtownGwen GregsonMiniseries; Episode 4 [119]
The Wind in the Willows Barge LadyTelevision film [120]
2007Where Have I Been All Your Life?Angela Television short [121]
Cranford Miss Octavia PoleMiniseries; 5 episodes [122]
2008 Clay Mary DoonanTelevision film [123]
Coming Up MotherEpisode: "Lickle Bill Um" [124]
Big & Small Ruby / TwibaVoice; 12 episodes [125]
2009 Return to Cranford Miss Octavia PoleEpisodes: "August 1844", "October 1844" [126]
2010–2011 Psychoville Grace AndrewsGuest role (Halloween special)
main role (series 2); 7 episodes		 [127]
[128]
2010White OtherLynne McDermottTelevision short [129]
2011 Doctor Who The InterfaceVoice; Episode: "The Girl Who Waited" [96]
2012 The Girl Alma Reville Hitchcock Television film [130]
2013Mouse and Mole at Christmas TimeVarious rolesVoice; Television film [131]
2014 That Day We Sang EnidTelevision film [132]
2019A ConfessionKaren EdwardsMiniseries; 6 episodes [133]
2020 Flesh and Blood MaryMiniseries; 4 episodes [134]
Talking Heads Irene RuddockEpisode: "A Lady of Letters" [135]
2020–2021 Trying Penny8 episodes [136]
2022–2023 The Crown Queen Elizabeth II Main role (Seasons 5–6);
20 episodes		 [137]
2023 Brassic Aunt EdieEpisode: "A Very Brassic Christmas" [138]

Theatre

Year(s)TitleRole(s)Theatre(s)NotesRef(s)
1982–1983 Guys and Dolls Mimi (Hot Box Girl)
Miss Adelaide [c] 		Royal National Theatre [140]
1982–1983 The Beggar's Opera Molly Brazen / Lucy Lockit Royal National Theatre [141]
1982–1983 Schweyk in the Second World War Anna Royal National Theatre [142]
1984 A Mad World, My Masters Janet Claughton Theatre Royal Stratford East [143]
Us Good GirlsPaulette Soho Theatre [144]
1985 The Corn Is Green Bessie Watty The Old Vic [145]
1985–1986 A Chorus of Disapproval Hannah Llewellyn Royal National Theatre [146]
1987 Venus and Adonis Venus Barbican Centre [147]
The Fair Maid of the West Bess Bridges Mermaid Theatre [148]
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Gloria Beatty Mermaid Theatre [149]
1987–1988 The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale Barbican Centre [150]
1988 Uncle Vanya Sonya Vaudeville Theatre [151]
1989The Lady and the ClarinetLuba King's Head Theatre [152]
1990–1991 Into the Woods The Baker's Wife Phoenix Theatre [153]
1991Bold GirlsCassie Hampstead Theatre [154]
1994On Borrowed Time— Southwark Playhouse Producer and director [155]
1994–1995 Slavs! Bonfila Hampstead Theatre [156]
1996 Habeas Corpus Mrs. Swabb Donmar Warehouse [157]
1996–1997 Guys and Dolls Miss Adelaide Royal National Theatre [158]
1998 Divas at the Donmar — Donmar Warehouse Solo cabaret season [159]
2000–2001 Life x 3 Ines Royal National Theatre
The Old Vic [d] 		[160]
[161]
2004Calico Nora Barnacle Duke of York's Theatre [162]
2007There Came a Gypsy RidingMargaret Almeida Theatre [163]
Follies in Concert Hattie Walker London Palladium Benefit concert [164]
2009 Entertaining Mr Sloane Kath Trafalgar Theatre [165]
2011 A Delicate Balance Claire Almeida Theatre [166]
2012 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Lovett Adelphi Theatre [167]
2013 Circle Mirror Transformation Marty Royal Court Theatre [168]
2014 Good People Margie Walsh Hampstead Theatre
Noël Coward Theatre [e] 		[169]
[170]
2015 Gypsy Momma Rose Savoy Theatre [171]
2017 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Harold Pinter Theatre [172]
2017–2018 Follies Sally Durant Plummer Royal National Theatre [173]
2020 Talking Heads Irene Ruddock Bridge Theatre Segment: "A Lady of Letters" [174]
2024 Hello, Dolly! Dolly Gallagher Levi London Palladium [175]

Other

YearTitleRoleRef(s)
2025 Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry Dolores Umbridge [176]

Awards and honours

Staunton has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, four Olivier Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Staunton was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 Birthday Honours, all for services to drama, and the last additionally for charity. [177] [178] [179]

Discography

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Included as a segment of the direct-to-video anthology feature Guilty Hearts (2011) [60]
  2. ↑ Staunton played separate characters in each episode.
  3. ↑ Staunton replaced Julia McKenzie as Miss Adelaide since May 1983. [139]
  4. ↑ The production transferred to the Old Vic in February 2001.
  5. ↑ The production transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre in April 2014.

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