Lesley Manville
- Acting
- March 12, 1956 · 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
Filmography
- Marble Hall Murders · Susan Ryeland
- National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses · Marquise de Merteuil
- Midwinter Break · Stella
- Winter of the Crow · Joan Andrews
- Cold Storage · Trini Romano
- Monster: The Ed Gein Story · Bernice Worden
- Mr. Burton · Ma Smith, Executive producer
- Queer · Doctor Cotter
- Moonflower Murders · Susan Ryeland
- Disclaimer · Nancy Brigstocke
- Grotesquerie · Nurse Redd
- Grotesquerie · Enfermera
- The Critic · Annabel Land
- Back to Black · Cynthia
- Citadel · Dahlia Archer
- Dangerous Liaisons · Genevieve de Merteuil
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris · Ada Harris, Executive producer
- Sherwood · Julie Jackson
- Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men · The Mother
- Life After Life · Narrator
- Magpie Murders · Susan Ryeland, Executive producer
- Let Him Go · Blanche Weboy
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads · Susan
- Love Life · Narrator (Voice)
- Misbehaviour · Dolores Hope
- Ordinary Love · Joan
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil · Flittle
- World on Fire · Robina Chase
- I Am... · Maria, Writer
- National Theatre Live: LOVE · Herself/Introduced By
- To Provide All People · Consultant Psychiatrist
- Save Me · Jennifer Charles
- Phantom Thread · Cyril Woodcock
- The Agency · Anthea
- Hampstead · Fiona
- Harlots · Lydia Quigley
- A Very British Brothel 2 · Narrator (Voice)
- Rupture · Dr. Nyman
- The Crown · Princess Margaret
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light · Self
- Mum · Cathy
- River · Chrissie Read
- The Go-Between · Mrs. Maudsley
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- A Very British Brothel · Self
- Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism · Miss Adderstone
- The One and Only Mike Leigh · Self
- Mr. Turner · Mary Somerville
- Ghosts · Helene Alving
- Maleficent · Flittle
- Fleming · Evelyn Fleming
- The Christmas Candle · Bea Haddington
- An Adventure in Space and Time · Heather Hartnell
- Romeo & Juliet · The Nurse
- A Five Star Life · Kate Sherman
- Mayday · Gail Spicer
- Spike Island · Margaret
- Ashes · Cath
- Another Year · Mary
- Womb · Judith
- The Queen · Margaret Thatcher
- A Christmas Carol · Mrs. Cratchit (Voice)
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Law & Order: UK · Phyllis Gladstone
- Cranford · Mrs. Rose
- Sparkle · Jill
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Perfect Parents · Sister Antonia
- The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael · Sarah
- North & South · Mrs. Maria Hale
- Vera Drake · Mrs. Wells
- Promoted to Glory · Capt. Annie Sullivan
- All or Nothing · Penny
- Bodily Harm · Mandy Greenfield
- Rose and Maloney · Professor Diane Marquis
- Plain Jane · Dora Bruce
- David Copperfield · Emma Micawber
- The Cazalets · Villy Cazalet
- David Copperfield · Emma Micawber
- Other People's Children · Nadine