Imelda Staunton

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Imelda Staunton

Staunton in 2019
Born
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton

(1956-01-09) 9 January 1956 (age 68)
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1976–present
Spouse
(m. 1983)
ChildrenBessie Carter
AwardsFull list

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton CBE (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.

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 Green. Her other stage appearances include The Beggar's Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Entertaining Mr Sloane, and Good People. She has been nominated for 13 Olivier Awards.

On film, Staunton's roles in the 1990s include Antonia and Jane, Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Sense and Sensibility, and Shakespeare in Love. She received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for playing the title role of Vera Drake. She gained a wider audience for her role as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1. She also appeared in the films Nanny McPhee, Another Year, Pride, Finding Your Feet, and Downton Abbey, and provided voice roles for Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas, and Paddington.

On television, Staunton starred in the sitcoms Up the Garden Path and Is it Legal?. Her performance in My Family and Other Animals earned her a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress, while her roles in Return to Cranford and The Girl earned her BAFTA TV Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. For the latter, she was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the final two seasons of The Crown, gaining nominations for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie (née McNicholas), a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a labourer.[3][4] They lived over Staunton's mother's salon.[5] Her parents were first-generation Catholic immigrants from County Mayo, Ireland;[6] her father from Ballyvary and her mother from Bohola.[7] Her mother was a musician who could not read music, but could play almost any tune by ear on the accordion or fiddle, and had played in Irish showbands.[6] Staunton's parents separated when she was in her teens, both later meeting new partners.

As a pupil at La Sainte Union Catholic School,[8] Staunton took drama classes with her elocution teacher and starred in school plays, including the role of Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera.[6][9] Encouraged by her teacher, she auditioned for drama schools and got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at age 18.[10] She also unsuccessfully auditioned for the Central School of Speech and Drama and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[9]

Acting career[edit]

Theatre[edit]

Staunton graduated from RADA in 1976,[11][12] 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.[13] 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[14] and the second in 1996 in which she played Miss Adelaide and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[15]

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.[16] She also played Dorothy Gale in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987 revival of The Wizard of Oz at the Barbican Centre,[17][18] which earned her another Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.[19] 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).[20]

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.[21] Both productions transferred to London for critically and commercially acclaimed runs.[22] Staunton won her second and third Olivier Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for the two productions in 2013 and 2016 respectively.[23]

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.[24] 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.[25][26] The show was broadcast through the National Theatre Live initiative on 16 November 2017.

Film[edit]

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".[27] She was nominated in the "British Actress in a Supporting Role" category at the London Film Critics Circle Awards.[28] 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.[29] 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.[30]

Television work[edit]

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.[31] 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.[32] 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.[33][34] Staunton's performance in the fifth season earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.[35]

Radio[edit]

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[edit]

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.[36]

Personal life[edit]

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.[37] They live in West Hampstead.[38]

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.[39]

Acting credits[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1986 Comrades Betsy Loveless [40]
1992 Peter's Friends Mary Charleston [41]
1993 Much Ado About Nothing Margaret [42]
1994 Deadly Advice Beth Greenwood [43]
1995 The Snow Queen Ivy / Angorra Voice; Direct-to-video [44]
Sense and Sensibility Charlotte Palmer [45]
1996 Twelfth Night Maria [46]
The Snow Queen's Revenge Elspeth / Rowena Voice; Direct-to-video [47]
1997 Remember Me? Lorna [48]
The Ugly Duckling Scruffy Voice; Direct-to-video [49]
1998 Shakespeare in Love Nurse [50]
1999 Jack & the Beanstalk Dilly Voice; Direct-to-video [51]
2000 Chicken Run Bunty Voice [52]
Rat Conchita Flynn [53]
2001 Another Life Ethel Graydon [54]
Crush Janine [55]
2002 The Strange Case of Penny Allison Penny Allison / Alison Ayling Short; Direct-to-video [56]
Ready Naomi Short[a] [58]
2003 The Virgin of Liverpool Sylvia Conlon [59]
Bright Young Things Lady Brown [60]
I'll Be There Dr. Bridget [61]
Blackball Bridget [62]
2004 Vera Drake Vera Drake [63]
2005 Nanny McPhee Mrs. Blatherwick [64]
2006 Shadow Man Ambassador Cochran Direct-to-video [65]
2007 Freedom Writers Margaret Campbell [66]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dolores Umbridge [67]
How About You Hazel Nightingale [68]
2008 Three and Out Rosemary Cassidy [69]
A Bunch of Amateurs Mary [70]
2009 Taking Woodstock Sonia Teichberg [71]
2010 Alice in Wonderland Tall Flower Faces Voice [72]
Another Year Janet [73]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Dolores Umbridge [74]
2011 The Awakening Maud Hill [75]
Arthur Christmas Mrs. Santa Voice [76]
2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Queen Victoria Voice [77]
2014 Pride Hefina Headon [78]
Maleficent Knotgrass [79]
Paddington Aunt Lucy Voice [80]
2017 Little Bird First Officer Simpkins Short [81]
[82]
Finding Your Feet Sandra Abbott [83]
Paddington 2 Aunt Lucy Voice [84]
2019 Downton Abbey Lady Maud Bagshaw [85]
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Knotgrass [86]
2020 Amulet Sister Claire [87]
2022 Downton Abbey: A New Era Lady Maud Bagshaw [88]
2023 The Canterville Ghost Mrs. Umney Voice [89]
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Bunty Voice [90]
2024 Paddington in Peru Aunt Lucy Voice; post-production [91]

Television[edit]

Year(s) Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1982 Playhouse Mary Price Episode: "Easy Money" [92]
1986 Ladies in Charge Edith Episode: "Double Act" [93]
The Singing Detective Staff Nurse White Miniseries; 5 episodes [93]
1988 Thompson Various roles Miniseries; 6 episodes [93]
1989 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Polly Flinders 3 episodes [93]
1990–1993 Up the Garden Path Izzy Comyn Main role; 18 episodes [93]
1990 ScreenPlay Jane Hartman
Stephanie[b]
Episode: "Antonia and Jane"
Episode: "The Englishman's Wife"
[94]
[95]
The Play on One Cheryl Newman Episode: "Yellowbacks" [96]
Masterpiece Louie Episode: "The Heat of the Day" [97]
1991 Screen Two The Producer Episode: "They Never Slept" [98]
1992 A Masculine Ending Bridget Bennet Television film [99]
Performance Jenny Beales Episode: "Roots" [100]
1993 Don't Leave Me This Way Bridget Bennet Television film [101]
If You See God, Tell Him Muriel Spry Miniseries; 4 episodes [93]
1994 Woodcock Edna Television film [102]
Frank Stubbs Promotes Susan Episode: "Charity" [93]
Mole's Christmas Various roles Voice; Television film [103]
1995 Citizen X Mrs. Burakov Television film [104]
Look at the State We're In! Councillor Johnson Miniseries; Episode: "Local Government" [93]
1995–1998 Is It Legal? Stella Phelps Main role; 21 episodes [93]
1995 The Adventures of Mole Various roles Voice; Television film [105]
1996 The Adventures of Toad Various roles Voice; Television film [106]
Tales from the Crypt Sarah Nevin Episode: "About Face" [93]
1998–2000 The Canterbury Tales The Prioress Miniseries; 3 episodes [107]
[108]
1999 Midsomer Murders Christine Cooper Episode: "Dead Man's Eleven" [93]
David Copperfield Emma Micawber Two-part television special [109]
2002 Murder DCI Billie Dory Miniseries; 4 episodes [110]
2003 Let's Write a Story Mrs. Twit Docuseries; Episode: "Humour" [111]
[112]
Cambridge Spies Queen Elizabeth Miniseries; Episodes 2 and 4 [93]
Strange Reverend Mary Truegood Miniseries; Episode: "Incubus" [93]
2005 Fingersmith Mrs. Sucksby 3 episodes [113]
ShakespeaRe-Told Polly Moon Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [114]
Little Britain Mrs. Mead Series 3, episode 6 [93]
My Family and Other Animals Louisa Durrell Television film [115]
2006 Dogtown Gwen Gregson Miniseries; Episode 4 [116]
The Wind in the Willows Barge Lady Television film [117]
2007 Where Have I Been All Your Life? Angela Television short [118]
Cranford Miss Octavia Pole Miniseries; 5 episodes [119]
2008 Clay Mary Doonan Television film [120]
Coming Up Mother Episode: "Lickle Bill Um" [121]
Big & Small Ruby / Twiba Voice; 12 episodes [122]
2009 Return to Cranford Miss Octavia Pole Episodes: "August 1844", "October 1844" [123]
2010–2011 Psychoville Grace Andrews Guest role (Halloween special)
main role (series 2); 7 episodes
[124]
[125]
2010 White Other Lynne McDermott Television short [126]
2011 Doctor Who The Interface Voice; Episode: "The Girl Who Waited" [93]
2012 The Girl Alma Reville Hitchcock Television film [127]
2013 Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time Various roles Voice; Television film [128]
2014 That Day We Sang Enid Television film [129]
2019 A Confession Karen Edwards Miniseries; 6 episodes [130]
2020 Flesh and Blood Mary Miniseries; 4 episodes [131]
Talking Heads Irene Ruddock Episode: "A Lady of Letters" [132]
2020–2021 Trying Penny 8 episodes [133]
2022–2023 The Crown Queen Elizabeth II Main role (Seasons 56);
20 episodes
[134]
2023 Brassic Aunt Edie Episode: "A Very Brassic Christmas" [135]

Theatre[edit]

Year(s) Title Role(s) Theatre(s) Notes Ref(s)
1982–1983 Guys and Dolls Mimi (Hot Box Girl)
Miss Adelaide[c]
Royal National Theatre [137]
1982–1983 The Beggar's Opera Molly Brazen / Lucy Lockit Royal National Theatre [138]
1982–1983 Schweyk in the Second World War Anna Royal National Theatre [139]
1984 A Mad World, My Masters Janet Claughton Theatre Royal Stratford East [140]
Us Good Girls Paulette Soho Theatre [141]
1985 The Corn Is Green Bessie Watty The Old Vic [142]
1985–1986 A Chorus of Disapproval Hannah Llewellyn Royal National Theatre [143]
1987 Venus and Adonis Venus Barbican Centre [144]
The Fair Maid of the West Bess Bridges Mermaid Theatre [145]
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Gloria Beatty Mermaid Theatre [146]
1987–1988 The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale Barbican Centre [147]
1988 Uncle Vanya Sonya Vaudeville Theatre [148]
1989 The Lady and the Clarinet Luba King's Head Theatre [149]
1990–1991 Into the Woods The Baker's Wife Phoenix Theatre [150]
1991 Bold Girls Cassie Hampstead Theatre [151]
1994 On Borrowed Time Southwark Playhouse Producer and director [152]
1994–1995 Slavs! Bonfila Hampstead Theatre [153]
1996 Habeas Corpus Mrs. Swabb Donmar Warehouse [154]
1996–1997 Guys and Dolls Miss Adelaide Royal National Theatre [155]
1998 Divas at the Donmar Donmar Warehouse Solo cabaret season [156]
2000–2001 Life x 3 Ines Royal National Theatre
The Old Vic[d]
[157]
[158]
2004 Calico Nora Barnacle Duke of York's Theatre [159]
2007 There Came a Gypsy Riding Margaret Almeida Theatre [160]
Follies in Concert Hattie Walker London Palladium Benefit concert [161]
2009 Entertaining Mr Sloane Kath Trafalgar Theatre [162]
2011 A Delicate Balance Claire Almeida Theatre [163]
2012 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Lovett Adelphi Theatre [164]
2013 Circle Mirror Transformation Marty Royal Court Theatre [165]
2014 Good People Margie Walsh Hampstead Theatre
Noël Coward Theatre[e]
[166]
[167]
2015 Gypsy Momma Rose Savoy Theatre [168]
2017 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Harold Pinter Theatre [169]
2017–2018 Follies Sally Durant Plummer Royal National Theatre [170]
2020 Talking Heads Irene Ruddock Bridge Theatre Segment: "A Lady of Letters" [171]
2024 Hello, Dolly! Dolly Gallagher Levi London Palladium [172]

Awards and honours[edit]

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 a Primetime Emmy Award. Staunton was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours[173] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.[174]

Discography[edit]

  • 1990: Into the Woods – Original London Cast; as baker's wife.
  • 2010: Julia Donaldson Audio Collection; as the narrator of the Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child, Highway Rat, Zog, and Charlie Cook's Favourite Book.
  • 2012: Sweeney Todd Revival Cast Recording; as Mrs. Lovett.
  • 2015: Gypsy – London Cast Recording; as Momma Rose.
  • 2019: Follies – London Cast Recording; as Sally.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Included as a segment of the direct-to-video anthology feature Guilty Hearts (2011)[57]
  2. ^ Staunton played separate characters in each episode.
  3. ^ Staunton replaced Julia McKenzie as Miss Adelaide since May 1983.[136]
  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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