Lesley Manville 1956 69
Lesley Manville 1956 69
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).
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2026 Winter of the Crow as Joan Andrews
2025 Monster: The Ed Gein Story as Bernice Worden
2025 Cold Storage
2025 Midwinter Break as Stella
2025 Mr. Burton as Ma Smith
2024 Queer as Doctor Cotter
2024 The Critic as Annabel Land
2024 Back to Black as Cynthia
2022 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Ada Harris Executive Producer
2022 Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as The Mother
2020 Let Him Go as Blanche Weboy
2020 Misbehaviour as Dolores Hope
2019 Ordinary Love as Joan
2019 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Flittle
2018 LOVE as Herself/Introduced By
2018 To Provide All People as Consultant Psychiatrist
2017 Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
2017 The Agency as Anthea
2017 Hampstead as Fiona
2017 A Very British Brothel 2 as Narrator (Voice)
2016 Rupture as Dr. Nyman
2016 The Crown as Princess Margaret
2016 Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2015 The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
2015 A Very British Brothel as Herself - Narrator (voice)
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Adderstone
2014 The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2014 Mr. Turner as Mary Somerville
2014 Ghosts as Helene Alving
2014 Maleficent as Flittle
2013 The Christmas Candle as Bea Haddington
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time as Heather Hartnell
2013 Romeo & Juliet as The Nurse
2013 A Five Star Life as Kate Sherman
2012 Spike Island as Margaret
2012 Ashes as Cath
2010 14 Actors Acting as Self
2010 Another Year as Mary
2010 Womb as Judith
2009 A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
2007 Sparkle as Jill
2006 Perfect Parents as Sister Antonia
2005 The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael as Sarah
2004 Vera Drake as Mrs. Wells
2003 Promoted to Glory as Capt. Annie Sullivan
2002 All or Nothing as Penny
2002 Plain Jane as Dora Bruce
2001 David Copperfield as Mrs. Micawber
1999 Topsy-Turvy as Lucy Gilbert
1999 Toy Boys as Mrs. Allen
1999 Milk as Fiona
1997 Dual Balls as Joanna
1996 Secrets & Lies as The Social Worker
1994 O Mary This London as Sophie
1993 A Statement of Affairs as Carol
1992 Bad Girl as Penny Armitage
1991 Top Girls as Marlene
1989 The Firm as Sue Bissell
1989 High Hopes as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Margy
1987 High Season as Carol
1985 Christmas Present as Judy Tall
1985 The Moon Over Soho as Sally Spencer
1985 Dance with a Stranger as Maryanne
1984 Angels in the Annexe as Jenny Bailey
1984 Dog Ends as Vivienne
1982 Our Winnie as Liz
1982 Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
1980 Grown-Ups as Mandy