Lesley Manville

Acting · Born 1956-03-12 in Brighton, England, UK

Biography

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).

Filmography

• Secrets & Lies as The Social Worker
• Vera Drake as Mrs. Wells
• Cold Storage as Trini Romano
• Another Year as Mary
• Maleficent as Flittle
• An Adventure in Space and Time as Heather Hartnell
• Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Flittle
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Ada Harris
• Back to Black as Cynthia

TV

• The Crown as Princess Margaret
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Lorrimer
• North & South as Mrs. Maria Hale
• Ain't Misbehavin' as Melissa Quigley
• The Gentle Touch
• Silent Witness
• Law & Order: UK
• The Bite as Ellie Shannon
• Cranford as Mrs. Rose
• Magpie Murders as Susan Ryeland