Biography
Celia Imrie (born 15 July 1952) is an English actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie has played Marianne Bellshade in Bergerac, Philippa Moorcroft in Dinnerladies, Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques, Diana Neal in After You've Gone, and Gloria Millington in Kingdom. She has been described as "one of the most successful British actresses of recent decades". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Complete Filmography

The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Joyce Meadowcroft
Four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and, led by a former spy, form the Thursday Murder Club to solve cold cases for fun. Bu...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
as Una Alconbury
Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, s...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024
as Edith Nesbit
Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses ...

Good Grief
2023
as Imelda
When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some ha...

Love Again
2023
as Gina Valentine
Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, John, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reass...

Fifty-Four Days
2023
as Gloria
When tragedy strikes, a spirited young woman turns to wild swimming in search of answers.

Robbie Coltrane at the BBC
2022
as Self - Presenter
A look back at the life and career of Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's best-loved stars and a giant of both the big and the small screen, through a s...

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm
2022
as Miss Womble
After inheriting a farm at Christmas time, a widowed father makes a bumpy adjustment to village life — while his kids hatch a plan to stay there forev...

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
2022
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary explores the enduring popularity of one of Britain's best loved crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary...

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2021
as Malabelle
The world’s funniest and most star-studded pantomime is back! Lily James heads the cast as famous names from theatre, film, comedy and music gather to...

Louisa: An Amazing Adventure
2021
as May Crocombe (voice)
January 1899 saw the worst storm at sea in living memory and the most astonishing lifeboat rescue attempt of the century. The coxswain of the Louisa l...

Love Sarah
2020
as Mimi
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old frien...

Cinderella: After Ever After
2019
as Madame Blackheart
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

D-Day 75: A Tribute to Heroes
2019
as Self
Live from Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Huw Edwards introduces coverage of the National Commemorative Event taking place to mark the 75th anniversary...

Malevolent
2018
as Mrs. Green
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.

Nativity Rocks!
2018
as Mrs. Keen
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.

One Evening In June
2018
as Beth
Mother and daughter's hidden insecurities and jealousy come to light one late Summer's evening. Amy lives in her sister and mother's shadow as an unma...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
as Vice Chancellor
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each ...
To Provide All People
2018
as Patient
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birt...

Finding Your Feet
2017
as Bif
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Monster Family
2017
as Cheyenne (voice)
The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are c...

A Cure for Wellness
2017
as Victoria Watkins
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss ...

Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
as Una
After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Claudia Bing
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendi...

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016
as Self
Friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular Victoria Wood, who died of cancer ...

Year by the Sea
2016
as Erikson
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
2015
as Edna
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
as Madge Hardcastle
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expans...

Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!
2014
as Mrs. Keen
This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantast...

What We Did on Our Holiday
2014
as Agnes Chisolm
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes ...

The Love Punch
2014
as Pen
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on ...

Remembering Douglas Camfield
2013
The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
as Madge Hardcastle
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Mari...

Acts of Godfrey
2012
as Helen McGann
At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Jacq...

My Angel
2011
as The Librarian
Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother Stewart end up having to take care of themselves an...

Lost Connection
2010
as Mum
David's 29th birthday also happens to be the day of his father's funeral. When David discovers that he shares that birthday with a Hollywood star, it ...

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Enid Wicklow
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...

The Road to Coronation Street
2010
as Doris Speed
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.

The Man Who Married Himself
2010
as Mother
Oliver has a mid-life crisis, and decides to get married - to himself. This is the story of his relationship, and how he discovers some truths about l...

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
as Matron
After a wealthy philanthropist expresses an unusual interest in a ring found by her niece Annabelle, Miss Fritton explains that she's descended from a...
Player
2008
as Laetitia
The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural community, the pair becom...

St Trinian's
2007
as Hausmutter
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p...

Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006
as Miss Babs
Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End produ...
The Lavender List
2006
as Mary Wilson
A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marci...

Imagine Me & You
2006
as Tessa
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel...

Nanny McPhee
2005
as Mrs. Quickly
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...

Wah-Wah
2005
as Lady Riva Hardwick
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Miss Davies
A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Una Alconbury
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...

Wimbledon
2004
as Lydice Kenwood
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...
Out of Bounds
2003
as Doctor Imogen Reed
Louise is an alienated boarding school student in the midst of a hot and heavy affair with the husband of her headmistress, Veronica. Suspicion and pa...

Calendar Girls
2003
as Celia
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Heartlands
2003
as Sonja
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atle...

The Planman
2003
as Gail Forrester
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect ...

A Is for Acid
2002
as Rose Henderson
Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in t...

Plain Jane
2002
as Ellen Reynolds
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

Thunderpants
2002
as Miss Rapier
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becom...

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Violet Pearman
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...
Station Jim
2001
as Miss Frazier
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriende...

Lucky Break
2001
as Amy
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Una Alconbury
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...

Revelation
2001
as Harriet Martel
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, ...

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self/Various Characters
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

A Christmas Carol
1999
as Mrs Bennett
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Fighter Pilot Bravo 5
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...

Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Iris Du Pré
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Mr White Goes To Westminster
1997
as Victoria Madison
A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.

The Borrowers
1997
as Homily Clock
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries a...

The Canterville Ghost
1997
as Lucy Otis
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the populari...

Into the Blue
1997
as Nadine Cunningham
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, i...

Hospital!
1997
as Sister Muriel
Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made spe...

The Writing on the Wall
1996
as Kirsty
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further...

A Very Open Prison
1995
as Victoria Bridgewater
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murd...

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Fadge
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...

The Return of the Native
1994
as Susan Nunsuch
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to enti...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Mrs. Moritz
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead ...

Pat and Margaret
1994
as Claire
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, fo...

Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
1993
as Lady MacDonald
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his...

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show ...

Thacker
1992
as Ann Hadon Smith
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has h...

Blue Black Permanent
1992
as Barbara Thorburn
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
The Harmfulness of Tobacco
1991
An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the e...

102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
as Madame Massis
In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

Old Flames
1990
as Davina Wright / Hopjoy
Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and ...
The World of Eddie Weary
1990
as Birdie
Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV s...

Murder on the Moon
1989
as Patsy Diehl
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and So...

An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
as Self - Questioner
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch...

Acorn Antiques
1987
as Babs
Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity announcer played by Susie Blake, Acorn Antiques was a m...

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment
1987
as Self
Michael Caine teaches the art of movie acting to five young actors, who perform scenes from Alfie (1966), Deathtrap (1982) and Educating Rita (1983)

Highlander
1986
as Kate MacLeod
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is C...

The Wicked Lady
1983
as Servant at Inn
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, ...

The Nightmare Man
1981
as Fiona Patterson
A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on th...

Death on the Nile
1978
as Maid (uncredited)
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime s...

Ice Age
1978
as Housemaid
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous wr...

House of Whipcord
1974
as Barbara
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for ...

Assassin
1973
as Stacy's Secretary
When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to...
The Temptation Of Gracie
N/A
as Gracie Burton
Gracie Burton, an ordinary widow who lives quietly in Devon, splashes out on a week’s cookery course at a beautiful castello in Italy. Unbeknownst to ...