
Imelda Staunton
Known for: Acting
Born: January 9, 1956
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born January 9, 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 Woo…
Known for

Vera Drake
2004

The Far Traveller
2020

Antonia and Jane
1990

Rat
2000

The Englishman's Wife
1990

Remember Me?
1997

That Day We Sang
2014

Gypsy
2015

Finding Your Feet
2017

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017

National Theatre Live: Follies
2017

Little Bird
2017
Ready
2002

Victorian Britain on Film
2021

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
2025

Testimony
2025

Taking Woodstock
2009

Shadow Man
2006

My Family and Other Animals
2005

Roots
1992

Crush
2002

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
2016

The Virgin of Liverpool
2003

Don't Leave Me This Way
1993

A Masculine Ending
1992

White Other
2010

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2012
The Pen
1995

Chicken Run
2000

How About You...
2007

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012

The Awakening
2011

Maleficent
2014

The Girl
2012

Deadly Advice
1994
A Confession As Told By ITV News
2019

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013

Mole's Christmas
1994

Amulet
2020
Adapting Austen
2009

Where Have I Been All Your Life?
2007
West the Road

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007

Freedom Writers
2007

Three and Out
2008

A Bunch of Amateurs
2008

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023

Another Life
2001
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020

Peter's Friends
1992

The Wind in the Willows
2006

Yellowbacks
1990

Arthur Christmas
2011

Pride
2014

The Canterville Ghost
2023

The Adventures of Mole
1995

The Adventures of Toad
1996

& Sons
2025

Shakespeare in Love
1998

Twelfth Night
1996

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022

They Never Slept
1991

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007

The Heat of the Day
1989

The Snow Queen
1995
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
2021

Blackball
2003

I'll Be There
2003

Easy Money
1982

Paddington
2014

Citizen X
1995

London: The Modern Babylon
2012

Paddington 2
2017

Clay
2008

Much Ado About Nothing
1993

The Wind in the Willows
1995

Guilty Hearts
2007

Paddington in Peru
2024

The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996

Sense and Sensibility
1995

Jack and the Beanstalk
1999

Another Year
2010

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
2006

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019

Nanny McPhee
2005

Comrades
1987

Alice in Wonderland
2010

Bright Young Things
2003

Psychoville Halloween Special
2010

Downton Abbey
2019
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010

The Ugly Duckling
1997

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000

Midsomer Murders
1997

Is It Legal?
1995

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Performance
1991

Strange
2003
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
2006

If You See God, Tell Him
1993

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

ShakespeaRe-Told
2005

Fingersmith
2005

Cranford
2007

Natural World
1983

The Oscars
1953
Thompson
1988
The Michael Ball Show
2010

Doctor Who
2005

A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
Up the Garden Path
1990

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020

Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993

Trying
2020

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Cambridge Spies
2003

David Copperfield
1999

Murder
2002

A Confession
2019

Flesh and Blood
2020

Little Britain
2003

The Crown
2016

Screen Two
1985

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The One Show
2006

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022

Playhouse
1974

The Story of Musicals
2012

The Singing Detective
1986
Look at the State We're In!
1995

Big & Small
2008

Ladies in Charge
1986

Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
2021
Tommy & Tuppence
2026

Psychoville
2009

ScreenPlay
1986

The Play on One
1988