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Lesley Manville

Actor, Producer, Writer
Born March 12, 1956 (68 years)
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).
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Romeo & Juliet
  • Misbehaviour
  • Coronation Street
  • Spike Island
  • The Christmas Candle
  • Kavanagh Q.C.
  • High Season
Known For
  • Maleficent
  • The Crown
  • Phantom Thread
  • Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
  • Another Year
  • Sherwood (2022)
  • Let Him Go
  • River
  • Magpie Murders
  • Secrets & Lies
  • All or Nothing
  • Mr. Turner
  • Back to Black
  • Mum
  • Womb
  • Citadel
  • Topsy-Turvy
  • Disclaimer
  • Vera Drake
  • Ordinary Love
  • Rupture
  • Love Life
  • Hampstead
  • North & South

Filmography

2025
2024
Queer · as Doctor Cotter
2024
Disclaimer (TV Series) · as Nancy Brigstocke
2024
Grotesquerie (TV Series) · as Nurse Redd
2024
Moonflower Murders (TV Series) · as Susan Ryeland
2024
Back to Black · as Cynthia
2023
The Critic · as Annabel Land
2023
Citadel (TV Series) · as Dahlia Archer
2022
Dangerous Liaisons (2022) (TV Series) · as Genevieve De Merteuil
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris · as Ada Harris
2022
Sherwood (2022) (TV Series) · as Julie Jackson
2022
Life After Life (2022) (TV Series) · as Narrator
2022
Magpie Murders (TV Series) · as Susan Ryeland
2021
2020
Let Him Go · as Blanche Weboy
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (TV Series) · as Susan
2020
Love Life (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice)
2020
Misbehaviour · as Dolores Hope
2019
Ordinary Love · as Joan
2019
2019
World on Fire (TV Series) · as Robina Chase
2019
I Am... (2019) (TV Series) · as Maria
2018
To Provide All People · as Consultant Psychiatrist
2018
Save Me (2018) (TV Series) · as Jennifer Charles
2017
Phantom Thread · as Cyril Woodcock
2017
Hampstead · as Fiona
2017
Harlots (TV Series) · as Lydia Quigley
2016
Rupture · as Dr. Nyman
2016
The Crown (TV Series) · as Princess Margaret
2016
Mum (TV Series) · as Cathy
2015
River (TV Series) · as Chrissie Read
2015
The Go-Between · as Mrs. Maudsley
2015
2014
Mr. Turner · as Mary Somerville
2014
Ghosts · as Helene Alving
2014
Maleficent · as Flittle
2014
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (TV Series) · as Evelyn Fleming
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
2013
Mayday (2013) (TV Series) · as Gail Spicer
2012
Spike Island · as Margaret
2012
Ashes · as Cath
2011
2011
2010
Another Year · as Mary
2010
Womb · as Judith
2009
The Queen (TV Series) · as Margaret Thatcher
2009
A Christmas Carol · as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
2009
Suicide Man · as Councillor Deakins
2009
Law & Order: UK (TV Series)
2007
Cranford (TV Series) · as Mrs. Rose
2007
Sparkle · as Jill
2007
The Making of Cranford · as Mrs. Rose
2006
Perfect Parents · as Sister Antonia
2005
2004
North & South (TV Series) · as Maria Hale
2004
Vera Drake · as Mrs. Wells
2003
Promoted to Glory · as Capt. Annie Sullivan
2002
All or Nothing · as Penny
2002
Bodily Harm (TV Series) · as Mandy Greenfield
2002
Rose and Maloney (TV Series)
2001
The Cazalets (TV Series) · as Villy Cazalet
2000
David Copperfield · as Mrs. Micawber
2000
Other People's Children (TV Series) · as Nadine
1999
Topsy-Turvy · as Lucy Gilbert
1999
Milk · as Fiona
1998
Real Women (TV Series) · as Karen
1997
Painted Lady · as Susie Peel
1997
Painted Lady (TV Series) · as Susie Peel
1997
Holding On (TV Series) · as Hilary
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Phoebe Archbold
1996
Secrets & Lies · as The Social Worker
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series)
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. (TV Series) · as Lucy Cartwright
1994
Little Napoleons (TV Series) · as Judith Silver
1994
A Skirt Through History (TV Series) · as Bessie Parkes
1994
Ain't Misbehavin' (1994) (TV Series) · as Melissa Quigley
1993
Goggle Eyes (TV Series) · as Rosalind Killin
1992
Crime Story (TV Series) · as Gail
1991
Performance (TV Series) · as Marlene
1991
Soldier Soldier (TV Series) · as Rachel Fortune
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lorrimer
1988
The Firm · as Sue Bissell
1988
High Hopes · as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
1987
1987
1986
Screenplay (1986) (TV Series) · as Penny Armitage
1985
Bulman (TV Series)
1985
Dance with a Stranger · as Maryanne
1984
Screen Two (TV Series) · as Sophie
1983
Give us a Break (TV Series) · as Alma
1980
Grown-Ups · as Mandy
1980
The Gentle Touch (TV Series)
1977
A Bunch Of Fives (TV Series) · as Helen Wyatt
1977
Wings (1977) (TV Series) · as Francoise
1973
Playhouse (TV Series) · as Mandy
1972
Emmerdale (TV Series) · as Rosemary Kendall
1970
Play for Today (TV Series) · as Vivienne
1969
Softly Softly Task Force (TV Series) · as Janet
1960
Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Jill Mason

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