Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

1956-01-09 Archway, London, England, UK 92 Credits

Biography

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) 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 Wood...

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National Theatre Live : Mrs. Warren's Profession

National Theatre Live : Mrs. Warren's Profession

2025

as Mrs Peggy Warren

Acting

Five-time Olivier Award-winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time...

Paddington in Peru

Paddington in Peru

2024

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

6.9
Acting

Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling ad...

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

as Bunty (voice)

7.0
Acting

A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

2023

as Mrs Umney (voice)

6.7
Acting

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

2022

as Self

8.0
Acting

On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged pro...

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

as Maud Bagshaw

7.2
Acting

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...

Victorian Britain on Film

Victorian Britain on Film

2021

as Narrator

Acting

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

2020

as reader

10.0
Acting

The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have ...

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

2020

as Self - Readings

6.0
Acting

This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC in Christmas animations for the last few years, and...

Amulet

Amulet

2020

as Sister Claire

5.3
Acting

Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he st...

The Far Traveller

The Far Traveller

2020

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

When she died around 1050 AD, a littleknown Viking explorer had become the most traveled woman of the Middle Ages. She had sailed across the Atlantic ...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2019

as Knotgrass

7.3
Acting

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...

A Confession As Told By ITV News

2019

as Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards

Acting

Reporter Robert Murphy looks at how the real story of the Halliwell murders unfolded on ITV News and inspired those behind the television drama titled...

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

2019

as Maud Bagshaw

7.1
Acting

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...

Finding Your Feet

Finding Your Feet

2017

as Sandra Abbott

7.1
Acting

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

National Theatre Live: Follies

National Theatre Live: Follies

2017

as Sally Durant Plummer

8.0
Acting

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final ...

Paddington 2

Paddington 2

2017

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

7.5
Acting

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

as Narrator

7.3
Acting

A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story ...

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2017

as Martha

6.2
Acting

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professo...

Little Bird

Little Bird

2017

as First Officer Simpkins

8.5
Acting

A young woman seeks to expand her limited horizons, set against a backdrop of wartime London.

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

2016

as Self

Acting

Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

Gypsy

Gypsy

2015

as Rose

7.8
Acting

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the ...

That Day We Sang

That Day We Sang

2014

as Enid

6.8
Acting

TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the c...

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

2014

Acting

That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film sh...

Paddington

Paddington

2014

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

7.1
Acting

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, w...

Pride

Pride

2014

as Hefina

7.7
Acting

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one p...

Maleficent

Maleficent

2014

as Knotgrass

7.1
Acting

A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

2013

as Shrew (voice)

6.0
Acting

Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream, Sno...

The Girl

The Girl

2012

as Alma Reville Hitchcock

6.1
Acting

Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’...

London: The Modern Babylon

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

as Spoken Quotations (voice)

6.5
Acting

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012

as Queen Victoria (voice)

6.5
Acting

The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. The chaotic adventure takes them from exotic shores ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2012

as Mrs. Lovett

Acting

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justic...

Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

2011

as Mrs Santa (voice)

6.8
Acting

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each...

The Awakening

The Awakening

2011

as Maud Hill

6.4
Acting

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Dolores Umbridge

7.7
Acting

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

White Other

White Other

2010

as Lynne McDermott

6.0
Acting

In the dead of night a troubled youth from an East London estate, Ray Marsden stalks into a hospital ward demanding to see the patient. The attendant ...

Another Year

Another Year

2010

as Janet

7.0
Acting

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Psychoville Halloween Special

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010

as Grace Andrews

Acting

Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the aban...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Talking Flowers (voice)

6.6
Acting

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

2009

as Sonia Teichberg

6.2
Acting

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...

A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008

as Mary

5.4
Acting

Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believe...

Three and Out

Three and Out

2008

as Rosemary Cassidy

5.6
Acting

A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.

Clay

Clay

2008

as Mary Doonan

5.2
Acting

Adaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up against Mouldy, the town bully. Turning Crazy Mary s garde...

How About You...

How About You...

2007

as Hazel Nightingale

6.2
Acting

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007

as Self

Acting

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftiet...

Guilty Hearts

Guilty Hearts

2007

as Naomi

5.5
Acting

Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

as Dolores Umbridge

7.7
Acting

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers

2007

as Margaret Campbell

7.9
Acting

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

2006

as Barge Lady

5.8
Acting

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

Shadow Man

Shadow Man

2006

as Ambassador Cochran

4.4
Acting

An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

2006

as Herself

8.8
Acting

A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.

My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals

2005

as Mother

6.5
Acting

An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

2005

as Mrs. Blatherwick

6.7
Acting

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and h...

Vera Drake

Vera Drake

2004

as Vera Drake

7.2
Acting

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

2003

as Lady Brown

6.3
Acting

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

I'll Be There

I'll Be There

2003

as Dr. Bridget

5.4
Acting

A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.

Blackball

Blackball

2003

as Bridget

5.2
Acting

Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he mana...

The Virgin of Liverpool

The Virgin of Liverpool

2003

as Sylvia Conlon

2.3
Acting

In Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's replacement plans. As her family faces financial strug...

Crush

Crush

2002

as Janine

5.6
Acting

Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them ...

Ready

2002

as Naomi

Acting

Naomi has known all her life that she will succumb to the same fate that has befallen her family for generations. Unlike her ancestors, who all made u...

Another Life

Another Life

2001

as Ethel Graydon

6.0
Acting

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend ...

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Mrs. Cottisloe

6.5
Acting

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Rat

Rat

2000

as Conchita Flynn

6.1
Acting

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wa...

Chicken Run

Chicken Run

2000

as Bunty (voice)

6.8
Acting

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly!...

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

1999

as Dilly (voice)

6.8
Acting

In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bea...

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love

1998

as Nurse

6.9
Acting

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman a...

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling

1997

as Scruffy (voice)

5.6
Acting

The Ugly Duckling teams up with friend Scruffy, and the lovable misfits embark on a journey that helps them realize that their differences are what ma...

Remember Me?

Remember Me?

1997

4.0
Acting

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected...

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1996

as Maria

6.9
Acting

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman ...

The Adventures of Toad

The Adventures of Toad

1996

as Voice

Acting

Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countryside in his new motor car getting into all sorts of t...

The Snow Queen's Revenge

The Snow Queen's Revenge

1996

as Elspeth / Rowena (voice)

5.4
Acting

The Snow Queen holds Ellie responsible for ruining her plans to freeze the world and sets out to seek revenge. She kidnaps Dimly the flying reindeer a...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

1995

as Mother Squirrel

Acting

Follow Mr. Toad as he purchases a motor car, and his pals Ratty, Badger, and Mole are forced to come to his rescue after a series of misadventures, as...

The Adventures of Mole

The Adventures of Mole

1995

as Voice

6.0
Acting

Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills of the riverbank in the company of his new found fr...

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as Charlotte Jennings Palmer

7.4
Acting

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

The Pen

1995

Acting

A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.

Citizen X

Citizen X

1995

as Mrs. Burakov

7.2
Acting

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17...

The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

1995

as Ivy / Angorra

6.2
Acting

Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. B...

Mole's Christmas

Mole's Christmas

1994

as (voices)

4.8
Acting

Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets.

Deadly Advice

Deadly Advice

1994

as Beth Greenwood

4.6
Acting

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has fe...

Don't Leave Me This Way

Don't Leave Me This Way

1993

as Bridget Bennet

7.0
Acting

British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta ...

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

as Margaret

6.9
Acting

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to...

Roots

Roots

1992

as Jenny Beales

Acting

Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political ...

Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

1992

as Mary Charleston

6.5
Acting

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie...

A Masculine Ending

A Masculine Ending

1992

as Bridget Bennet

Acting

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a...

They Never Slept

They Never Slept

1991

as The Producer

Acting

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the Fre...

Yellowbacks

Yellowbacks

1990

as Cheryl Newman

7.0
Acting

Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question th...

The Englishman's Wife

The Englishman's Wife

1990

as Stephanie

Acting

A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but...

Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane

1990

as Jane Hartman

5.5
Acting

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest f...

The Heat of the Day

The Heat of the Day

1989

as Louie

Acting

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to...

Comrades

Comrades

1987

as Betsy Loveless

6.8
Acting

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign t...

Easy Money

1982

as Mary Price

Acting

At a concert Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

& Sons

N/A

Acting

Andrew is a novelist best known to the world as A.N. Dyer. He wrote his first book when he was 27, and it became an instant classic, selling 45 millio...