Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress. She is best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera Drake. For the latter, she drew widespread critical acclaim as Vera Drake, earning her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a number of wins including the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Awards for best actress in a leading role. Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie, a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a road-worker and labourer. The family lived over Staunton's mother's hair dressing salon while Staunton’s father worked on the roads. Staunton met her husband, English actor Jim Carter, in Richard Eyre's landmark early Eighties production of Guys And Dolls at the National Theatre. They have a daughter, Bessie, born 1993. Staunton lives with her family in West Hampstead, northwest London, and is long time friends with actor Stephen Fry, actor Hugh Laurie and actress Emma Thompson, her neighbor.
Movie | Paddington in Peru | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2024-11-07 |
Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Mrs Umney (voice) | 2023-09-22 |
Movie | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Bunty (voice) | 2023-12-08 |
Movie | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Maud Bagshaw | 2022-04-27 |
Movie | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
Movie | Amulet | Sister Claire | 2020-07-24 |
Movie | The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Knotgrass | 2019-10-16 |
Series | A Confession | Karen Edwards | 2019-09-02 |
Movie | Downton Abbey | Maud Bagshaw | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | 2017-05-18 |
Movie | Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Narrator | 2017-10-28 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Follies | Sally Durant Plummer | 2017-11-16 |
Movie | Finding Your Feet | Sandra Abbott | 2017-12-26 |
Movie | Paddington 2 | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2017-11-09 |
Series | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Gypsy | Rose | 2015-12-27 |
Movie | Pride | Hefina | 2014-09-12 |
Movie | Maleficent | Knotgrass | 2014-05-28 |
Movie | Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made | 2014-12-26 | |
Movie | Paddington | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2014-11-24 |
Movie | That Day We Sang | Enid | 2014-12-26 |
Movie | Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time | Shrew (voice) | 2013-12-16 |
Movie | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Mrs. Lovett | 2012-03-10 |
Movie | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Queen Victoria (voice) | 2012-03-12 |
Movie | The Girl | Alma Reville Hitchcock | 2012-10-22 |
Movie | London: The Modern Babylon | Spoken Quotations (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
Movie | The Awakening | Maud Hill | 2011-08-17 |
Movie | Arthur Christmas | Mrs Santa (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Tall Flower Faces (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
Series | The Michael Ball Show | Unknown | 2010-08-16 |
Movie | Another Year | Janet | 2010-11-05 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Dolores Umbridge | 2010-11-17 |
Series | Psychoville | 2009-06-18 | |
Movie | Taking Woodstock | Sonia Teichberg | 2009-08-26 |
Movie | Clay | Mary Doonan | 2008-03-30 |
Series | Big & Small | 2008-10-06 | |
Movie | A Bunch of Amateurs | Mary | 2008-11-17 |
Movie | Three and Out | Rosemary Cassidy | 2008-10-12 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Herself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Dolores Umbridge | 2007-07-08 |
Movie | Freedom Writers | Margaret Campbell | 2007-01-05 |
Movie | How About You... | Hazel Nightingale | 2007-11-16 |
Series | Cranford | Miss Pole | 2007-11-18 |
Movie | Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image | Herself | 2006-06-18 |
Movie | Guilty Hearts | Naomi | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Shadow Man | Ambassador Cochran | 2006-09-05 |
Series | Live!Girls! present Dogtown | Unknown | 2006-10-04 |
Movie | The Wind in the Willows | Barge Lady | 2006-12-18 |
Series | Fingersmith | Mrs. Sucksby | 2005-03-27 |
Series | Doctor Who | Voice of Interface | 2005-03-26 |
Series | ShakespeaRe-Told | Unknown | 2005-11-07 |
Movie | My Family and Other Animals | Mother | 2005-12-27 |
Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mrs. Blatherwick | 2005-10-21 |
Movie | Vera Drake | Vera Drake | 2004-10-22 |
Series | Cambridge Spies | The Queen | 2003-05-09 |
Movie | The Virgin of Liverpool | Sylvia Conlon | 2003-03-15 |
Movie | Blackball | Bridget | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | I'll Be There | Dr. Bridget | 2003-06-13 |
Movie | Bright Young Things | Lady Brown | 2003-10-03 |
Series | Strange | Unknown | 2003-05-31 |
Series | Little Britain | 2003-09-16 | |
Movie | Murder | DCI Billie Dory | 2002-05-01 |
Movie | Rat | Conchita Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | Another Life | Ethel Graydon | 2001-06-15 |
Movie | Crush | Janine | 2001-08-19 |
Movie | Chicken Run | Bunty (voice) | 2000-06-23 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
Movie | Jack and the Beanstalk | Dilly | 1999-10-11 |
Series | David Copperfield | Mrs. Micawber | 1999-12-25 |
Movie | Shakespeare in Love | Nurse | 1998-12-11 |
Movie | Remember Me? | 1997-01-02 | |
Movie | The Ugly Duckling | Scruffy (voice) | 1997-09-04 |
Series | Midsomer Murders | Unknown | 1997-03-23 |
Movie | Twelfth Night | Maria | 1996-10-25 |
Movie | Citizen X | Mrs. Burakov | 1995-02-25 |
Movie | The Snow Queen | Ivy / Angorra | 1995-01-01 |
Series | Look at the State We're In! | Councillor Johnson | 1995-05-20 |
Movie | Sense and Sensibility | Charlotte Jennings Palmer | 1995-12-13 |
Series | Is It Legal? | 1995-09-12 | |
Movie | The Adventures of Mole | Voice | 1995-12-24 |
Movie | Deadly Advice | Beth Greenwood | 1994-04-29 |
Movie | Mole's Christmas | (voices) | 1994-12-25 |
Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Margaret | 1993-05-07 |
Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | Bridget Bennet | 1993-05-30 |
Series | If You See God, Tell Him | Muriel Spry | 1993-11-11 |
Movie | A Masculine Ending | Bridget Bennet | 1992-04-12 |
Movie | Peter's Friends | Mary Charleston | 1992-09-18 |
Movie | They Never Slept | The Producer | 1991-01-20 |
Movie | Antonia and Jane | Jane Hartman | 1990-01-01 |
Series | Up the Garden Path | 1990-05-02 | |
Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
Series | A Bit of Fry & Laurie | Unknown | 1989-01-13 |
Series | Thompson | Self | 1988-11-10 |
Series | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Unknown | 1987-08-02 |
Movie | Comrades | Betsy Loveless | 1987-08-23 |
Series | Ladies in Charge | Edith | 1986-05-06 |
Series | The Singing Detective | Staff Nurse White | 1986-11-16 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Movie | Easy Money | Mary Price | 1982-05-28 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |