Imelda Staunton
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday9 January 1956 (70 years old)
Place of birthArchway, London, England, UK
Known credits145
Biography
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 Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Gypsy, and one for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play for her wor…
Tommy & Tuppence
2026 · Aunt Ada
& Sons
2026 · Isabel
Testimony
2025 · Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
2025 · Mrs Peggy Warren
Paddington in Peru
2024 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023 · Bunty (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
2023 · Mrs Umney (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022 · Self
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Maud Bagshaw
Victorian Britain on Film
2021 · Narrator
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
2021 · Self
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
2021 · Self - Narrator
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020 · reader
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020 · Self - Readings
Amulet
2020 · Sister Claire
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Irene Ruddock
Trying
2020 · Penny
The Far Traveller
2020 · Narrator
Flesh and Blood
2020 · Mary Bennett
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Knotgrass
A Confession As Told By ITV News
2019 · Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
Downton Abbey
2019 · Maud Bagshaw
A Confession
2019 · Karen Edwards
Finding Your Feet
2017 · Sandra Abbott
National Theatre Live: Follies
2017 · Sally Durant Plummer
Paddington 2
2017 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017 · Martha
Little Bird
2017 · First Officer Simpkins
The Crown
2016 · Queen Elizabeth II
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
2016 · Self
Gypsy
2015 · Rose
Pride: The True Story
2015 · Herself
That Day We Sang
2014 · Enid
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014 · Self
Paddington
2014 · Aunt Lucy (voice)
Pride
2014 · Hefina
Maleficent
2014 · Knotgrass
Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014 · Rowena Rabbit (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 · Shrew (voice)
The Girl
2012 · Alma Reville Hitchcock
London: The Modern Babylon
2012 · Spoken Quotations (voice)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012 · Queen Victoria (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2012 · Mrs. Lovett
The Story of Musicals
2012 · Self – Narrator (voice)
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Mrs Santa (voice)
The Awakening
2011 · Maud Hill
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