Lesley Manville
Acting
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).
Born: March 12, 1956
Place of Birth: Brighton, England, UK
Known For
The Agency
Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female empowerment, amidst the social sub-culture, described collectively as "ladies who lunch". Disillusioned with a decade of domesticity, housewife Hannah Baines (Ania Sowinski), is befriended by an enigmatic older woman Anthea (Lesley Manville,) who introduces a select and seductive inner circle of women. In confidence, Anthea recommends a private and reliable company who "can set up something marvellous" for her. Hannah contemplates the implications of attending her initial consultation, at The Agency.
Bad Girl
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
The Cazalets
The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.
Cranford
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
The Crown
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
North & South
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Holding On
The interaction between a diverse range of characters—including a bulimic restaurant critic and a highly strung tax inspector—in modern-day London.
An Adventure in Space and Time
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Filmography
as Marquise de Merteuil
as Stella
as Joan Andrews
as Trini Romano
as Bernice Worden
as Ma Smith
as Doctor Cotter
as Susan Ryeland
as Nancy Brigstocke
as Nurse Redd
as Annabel Land
as Cynthia
as Dahlia Archer
as Genevieve de Merteuil
as Ada Harris
as Julie Jackson
as Narrator
as Susan Ryeland
as Blanche Weboy
as Susan
as Narrator (voice)
as Dolores Hope
as Joan
as Flittle
as Robina Chase
as Maria
as Herself/Introduced By
as Consultant Psychiatrist
as Cyril Woodcock
as Anthea
as Fiona
as Lydia Quigley
as Narrator (Voice)
as Princess Margaret
as Dr. Nyman
as Cathy
as Chrissie Read
as Mrs. Maudsley
as Self - Guest
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
as Miss Adderstone
as Mary Somerville
as Helene Alving
as Flittle
as Evelyn Fleming
as Bea Haddington
as Heather Hartnell
as The Nurse
as Kate Sherman
as Gail Spicer
as Margaret
as Cath
as Mary
as Judith
as Margaret Thatcher
as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Mrs. Rose
as Jill
as Self
as Sister Antonia
as Mrs. Maria Hale
as Mrs. Wells
as Capt. Annie Sullivan
as Penny
as Mandy Greenfield
as Dora Bruce
as Emma Micawber
as Villy Cazalet
as Yvonne
as Lucy Gilbert
as Self
as Mrs. Allen
as Fiona
as Susie Peel
as Hilary
as Phoebe Archbold
as The Social Worker
as Lucy Cartwright
as Judith Silver
as Sophie
as Melissa Quigley
as Penny Armitage
as Marlene
as Marlene
as Rachel Elliot
as Rachel Fortune
as Sue Bissell
as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
as Mrs. Lorrimer
as Margy
as Carol
as Judy Tall
as Sally Spencer
as Maryanne
as Sophie
as Sue
as Jenny Bailey
as Vivienne
as Liz
as Liz
as Self (archive footage)
as Mandy
as Nikki
as Mandy
as Vivienne
as Jill Mason