Marion Bailey

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Marion Bailey
Marion Bailey at Mr Turner premiere.jpg
Bailey in 2014
Born (1951-05-05) 5 May 1951 (age 72)
Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Alma mater Guildhall School of Music and Drama
OccupationActress

Marion Bailey (born 5 May 1951) is an English actress. [1] She is best known for her work with her partner, filmmaker Mike Leigh, [2] including the films Meantime (1983), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Mr. Turner (2014), for which she was nominated Supporting Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle, and Peterloo (2018). In 2019 and 2020, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown on Netflix, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild award winner for best ensemble in 2020 and 2021.

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Personal life

Bailey was born in Bushey Hospital, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, to Rose (née Timberlake) and William Bailey.[ citation needed ] She grew up in Harrow, Middlesex, and attended Pinner County Grammar School. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. With writer Terry Johnson, she has a daughter, actress Alice Bailey Johnson, who she acted with in an episode of This is Going to Hurt as the mother to Alice's pregnant character. [3]

Career

Film

As well as Leigh's films, Bailey has appeared as Mrs Peach in Debbie Isitt's Nasty Neighbours (2000), Mary in the Craig Ferguson film I'll Be There and Mrs Adams in S.J.Clarkson's "Toast" (2010). Bailey starred as Mrs Booth in Mr. Turner (2014) and appeared in The Lady in the Van (2015), Allied (2016), Dead in a Week or Your Money Back (2018), Lady Conyngham in Leigh's Peterloo (2018) and played Dinah in Stephen Cookson's "Brighton"(2019).

Television

Bailey's television work includes Inspector Morse , Casualty , The Bill , Holby City , Midsomer Murders , Agatha Christie's Poirot , A Touch of Frost , Dalziel and Pascoe , Big Deal , Boon , The Bretts, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries , No More Dying Then , Stay Lucky , Heat of the Sun , Micawber , New Tricks , Monday Monday , Being Human and Case Histories . In 1995, she had a recurring role as Avis in the long-running ITV series Shine on Harvey Moon . She also played leading roles in several popular 1980s TV series, including To Have and to Hold , Jury and Charlie.

In 2000, she played Wendy in Carlton's comedy-drama series The Thing About Vince . She has also appeared in many single TV dramas and films including Woyzeck, Way Upstream, Zackharov, Raspberry, Coppers, Derailed, Toast and Jane Austen's Persuasion . She played Jill in the BBC Three comedy series Him and Her, Sue in The Trials of Jimmy Rose, Ingrid in Temple, Cara in Britannia for Sky. She played Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in seasons 3 and 4 of international Netflix series The Crown , [4] for which she was the recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Television Drama Series.[ citation needed ] She has most recently appeared in Shakespeare and Hathaway and Endeavour.

Theatre

Bailey has worked extensively in British theatre, including at the Chichester and the Hampstead Theatre, and at the Bristol Old Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, London's West End, the Royal Court, the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the Arts Theatre and the Tricycle Theatre. In 1981 she performed in Mike Leigh's West End theatre play Goosepimples, for which she received a Plays and Players Award nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. [5] In 2007, with the Shared Experience company she received a TMA nomination as Best Supporting Performance for her role in Kindertransport . [6]

Bailey appeared in Mike Leigh's Grief at the National Theatre (2011/12). [7] In 2013 she played the Queen in Handbagged at the Tricycle Theatre and in the production's subsequent West End transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre. [8] She returned to the National Theatre to appear in Carrie Cracknell's productions Blurred Lines (2015) and The Deep Blue Sea (2016).

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1994 Don't Get Me Started Gill Lane
1999Nasty NeighboursJean Peach
2000 Offending Angels False Mentor
2002 All or Nothing Carol
2003 I'll Be There Mary
2004 Vera Drake Mrs. Fowler
2006The SickieCarolShort
2008Domestic FlightSusanShort
2010ToastMrs. AdamsShort
2014 Mr. Turner Sophia Booth
2015Fuel to FireDena Monk
2015 The Lady in the Van Housekeeper in Convent
2015 National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea Mrs Elton
2016 Allied Mrs. Sinclair
2016FirstJuliaShort
2018 Dead in a Week or Your Money Back Penny
2018 Peterloo Lady Conyngham
2018The TherapistShort
2019BrightonDinah
2022TommiesMrs. WillisShort
2023 Good Boy JackieShort
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1975 The Girls of Slender Means Dormitory GirlMiniseries (3 episodes)
1983JuryChloe McCormackSeries 1, episodes 3 & 4
1983 Meantime BarbaraTV movie
1984All the World's a StageExtract from WoyzeckMiniseries (1 episode)
1984RaspberryChrisTV movie
1984 Miracles Take Longer Juliet Arnold3 episodes
1984CharlieSusan AlexanderMiniseries (4 episodes)
1984 Sakharov Ludmilla KovalovTV movie
1984 Scene Mrs. PiperSeries 17, episode 3
1984 Big Deal Alison DiamondSeries 1 (3 episodes)
1985Summer SeasonJoanna PotterSeries 1, episode 17
1985Summer SeasonHotel ReceptionistSeries 1, episode 25
1986 To Have and to Hold Ann FletcherMiniseries (8 episodes)
1987 Way Upstream JuneTV movie
1988 Worlds Beyond Norma MoranSeries 1, episode 12
1988CoppersJuliaTV movie
1988The BrettsAgnesSeries 2, episode 5
1989 Inspector Morse Fran PierceSeries 3, episode 4
1989 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Ros SwanSeries 1, (3 episodes)
1990 Stay Lucky Jane RowlandsSeries 2, episode 5
1990 Casualty Joy WaddingtonSeries 5, episode 5
1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot Jane MasonSeries 3, episode 4
1992 The Bill Dorothy StraffordSeries 8, episode 26
1992 Boon SheilaSeries 7, episode 10
1993 The Chief Isabelle MellySeries 3, episode 4
1994 A Touch of Frost Eileen GrantSeries 2, episode 3
1994 The Bill Elizabeth DreyfonSeries 10, episode 17
1994 Casualty Anna LongfordSeries 9, episode 10
1995 Dangerfield Angie MillwoodSeries 1, episode 3
1995 Shine on Harvey Moon AvisSeries 5 (7 episodes)
1997 Dalziel and Pascoe Lorraine WildgooseSeries 2, episode 2
1998 Heat of the Sun Gwladys CarstairsMiniseries (1 episode)
1998 The Bill Delia ShawSeries 14, episode 32
2000 The Thing About Vince... Wendy SkinnerMiniseries (3 episodes)
2001 Shades Caroline MacIntyreSeries 1, episode 6
2001 Micawber Lady MacefieldSeries 1, episode 2
2005 Cherished Marion HardingTV movie
2005DerailedDiana KellowTV movie
2007 The Bill Jess ParkerSeries 23, episode 20
2007 Persuasion Mrs. CroftTV movie
2007 New Tricks BrendaSeries 4, episode 7
2008 Holby City Lesley BinghamSeries 10, episode 13
2008 Midsomer Murders Alyssa BradleySeries 11, episode 3
2009 Monday Monday ClaraSeries 1, episode 6
2010–13 Him & Her JillSeries 1–4 (4 episodes)
2010 Toast Mrs. AdamsTV movie
2011 Being Human RuthSeries 3, episode 6
2011 Case Histories Gloria HatterSeries 1, episodes 3 & 4
2015 The Trials of Jimmy Rose Sue AndersonMiniseries (3 episodes)
2017 SS-GB Joan WoodsMiniseries (1 episode)
2019 Temple IngridSeries 1, episode 4
2019 Britannia CaraSeries 2 (3 episodes)
2019–20 The Crown Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Series 3–4 (18 episodes)
2021 Endeavour Hilda Bruce-PotterSeries 8, episode 3
2022 This Is Going to Hurt Callie's MotherSeries 1, episode 1
2022 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Edie BrosnanSeries 4, episode 7
2022DrømmerenLady IslingtonSeries 1, episode 2
2023 All the Light We Cannot See Madame ManecSeries 1, episode 1-4
2023 Obsession ElizabethMiniseries (3 episodes)

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