Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie

1952-07-15 Guildford, Surrey, England, UK 97 Credits

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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The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club

2025

as Joyce Meadowcroft

Acting

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

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

as Una Alconbury

6.6
Acting

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

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone

2024

as Edith Nesbit

7.2
Acting

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

Good Grief

2023

as Imelda

6.2
Acting

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

Love Again

2023

as Gina Valentine

6.8
Acting

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

Fifty-Four Days

2023

as Gloria

Acting

When tragedy strikes, a spirited young woman turns to wild swimming in search of answers.

Robbie Coltrane at the BBC

Robbie Coltrane at the BBC

2022

as Self - Presenter

Acting

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

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm

2022

as Miss Womble

5.2
Acting

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

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem

2022

as Narrator (voice)

6.0
Acting

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

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

2021

as Malabelle

4.7
Acting

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

Louisa: An Amazing Adventure

2021

as May Crocombe (voice)

Acting

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

Love Sarah

2020

as Mimi

6.3
Acting

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

Cinderella: After Ever After

2019

as Madame Blackheart

7.1
Acting

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

D-Day 75: A Tribute to Heroes

2019

as Self

Acting

Live from Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Huw Edwards introduces coverage of the National Commemorative Event taking place to mark the 75th anniversary...

Malevolent

Malevolent

2018

as Mrs. Green

5.0
Acting

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!

Nativity Rocks!

2018

as Mrs. Keen

3.6
Acting

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

One Evening In June

2018

as Beth

Acting

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

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

2018

as Vice Chancellor

7.1
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Finding Your Feet

2017

as Bif

7.1
Acting

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

Monster Family

Monster Family

2017

as Cheyenne (voice)

6.0
Acting

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

A Cure for Wellness

2017

as Victoria Watkins

6.3
Acting

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

Bridget Jones's Baby

2016

as Una

6.4
Acting

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

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016

as Claudia Bing

5.3
Acting

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

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

2016

as Self

Acting

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

Year by the Sea

2016

as Erikson

8.0
Acting

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

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

2015

as Edna

5.3
Acting

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

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

as Madge Hardcastle

6.4
Acting

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?!

Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!

2014

as Mrs. Keen

4.4
Acting

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

What We Did on Our Holiday

2014

as Agnes Chisolm

6.7
Acting

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

The Love Punch

2014

as Pen

6.0
Acting

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

Remembering Douglas Camfield

2013

Acting

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

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2012

as Madge Hardcastle

6.9
Acting

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

Acts of Godfrey

2012

as Helen McGann

Acting

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

My Angel

2011

as The Librarian

4.0
Acting

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

Lost Connection

2010

as Mum

6.0
Acting

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

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010

as Enid Wicklow

5.9
Acting

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

The Road to Coronation Street

2010

as Doris Speed

7.2
Acting

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

The Man Who Married Himself

2010

as Mother

8.0
Acting

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

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

2009

as Matron

5.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

St Trinian's

2007

as Hausmutter

5.9
Acting

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

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

2006

as Miss Babs

7.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Imagine Me & You

2006

as Tessa

7.6
Acting

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

Nanny McPhee

2005

as Mrs. Quickly

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...

Wah-Wah

Wah-Wah

2005

as Lady Riva Hardwick

6.0
Acting

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

7.5
Acting

A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2004

as Una Alconbury

6.2
Acting

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

Wimbledon

2004

as Lydice Kenwood

6.2
Acting

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

4.3
Acting

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

Calendar Girls

2003

as Celia

6.5
Acting

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

Heartlands

Heartlands

2003

as Sonja

6.1
Acting

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

The Planman

2003

as Gail Forrester

4.3
Acting

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

A Is for Acid

2002

as Rose Henderson

7.0
Acting

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

Plain Jane

2002

as Ellen Reynolds

Acting

Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

Thunderpants

Thunderpants

2002

as Miss Rapier

3.5
Acting

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

The Gathering Storm

2002

as Violet Pearman

6.6
Acting

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

7.0
Acting

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

Lucky Break

2001

as Amy

6.2
Acting

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

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001

as Una Alconbury

6.7
Acting

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

Revelation

2001

as Harriet Martel

4.8
Acting

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

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Self/Various Characters

6.5
Acting

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

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1999

as Mrs Bennett

6.9
Acting

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

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999

as Fighter Pilot Bravo 5

6.6
Acting

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

Hilary and Jackie

1998

as Iris Du Pré

6.6
Acting

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

Mr White Goes To Westminster

1997

as Victoria Madison

2.0
Acting

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

The Borrowers

1997

as Homily Clock

6.0
Acting

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

The Canterville Ghost

1997

as Lucy Otis

Acting

'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

Into the Blue

1997

as Nadine Cunningham

6.0
Acting

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!

Hospital!

1997

as Sister Muriel

5.0
Acting

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

The Writing on the Wall

1996

as Kirsty

2.4
Acting

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

A Very Open Prison

1995

as Victoria Bridgewater

10.0
Acting

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

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Fadge

7.1
Acting

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

The Return of the Native

1994

as Susan Nunsuch

6.0
Acting

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

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

as Mrs. Moritz

6.4
Acting

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

Pat and Margaret

1994

as Claire

7.5
Acting

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

Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

1993

as Lady MacDonald

Acting

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

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

1992

5.5
Acting

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

Thacker

1992

as Ann Hadon Smith

Acting

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

Blue Black Permanent

1992

as Barbara Thorburn

5.5
Acting

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

The Harmfulness of Tobacco

1991

Acting

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

102 Boulevard Haussmann

1990

as Madame Massis

6.0
Acting

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

Old Flames

1990

as Davina Wright / Hopjoy

Acting

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

Acting

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

Murder on the Moon

1989

as Patsy Diehl

3.0
Acting

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

An Audience With Victoria Wood

1988

as Self - Questioner

5.2
Acting

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

Acorn Antiques

1987

as Babs

7.5
Acting

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

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

1987

as Self

Acting

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

Highlander

1986

as Kate MacLeod

6.9
Acting

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

The Wicked Lady

1983

as Servant at Inn

4.9
Acting

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

The Nightmare Man

1981

as Fiona Patterson

6.5
Acting

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

Death on the Nile

1978

as Maid (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

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

Ice Age

1978

as Housemaid

Acting

' 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

House of Whipcord

1974

as Barbara

6.1
Acting

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

Assassin

1973

as Stacy's Secretary

5.4
Acting

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

Acting

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 ...