
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress. She is best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera Drake. For the latter, she drew widespread critical acclaim as Vera Drake, earning her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a number of wins including the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Awards for best actress in a leading role. Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie, a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a road-worker and labourer. The family lived over Staunton's mother's hair dressing salon while Staunton’s father worked on the roads. Staunton met her husband, English actor Jim Carter, in Richard Eyre's landmark early Eighties production of Guys And Dolls at the National Theatre. They have a daughter, Bessie, born 1993. Staunton lives with her family in West Hampstead, northwest London, and is long time friends with actor Stephen Fry, actor Hugh Laurie and actress Emma Thompson, her neighbor.
Series | The Cranford Chronicles | Unknown | 2024 |
Movie | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Bunty (voice) | 2023-11-10 |
Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Umney | 2022-10-07 |
Movie | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Maud Bagshaw | 2022-04-27 |
Series | Flesh and Blood | Mary Bennett | 2020-02-24 |
Movie | Amulet | Sister Claire | 2020-07-24 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Knotgrass | 2019-10-16 |
Series | A Confession | Karen Edwards | 2019-09-02 |
Movie | Downton Abbey | Maud Bagshaw | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | 2017-05-18 |
Movie | Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Narrator | 2017-10-28 |
Movie | Paddington 2 | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2017-11-09 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Follies | Sally Durant Plummer | 2017-11-16 |
Movie | Finding Your Feet | Sandra Abbott | 2017-12-26 |
Series | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Gypsy | Rose | 2015-12-27 |
Movie | Pride | Hefina | 2014-09-12 |
Movie | Maleficent | Knotgrass | 2014-05-28 |
Movie | Paddington | Aunt Lucy (voice) | 2014-11-24 |
Movie | Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made | 2014-12-26 | |
Movie | That Day We Sang | Enid | 2014-12-26 |
Movie | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Queen Victoria (voice) | 2012-03-12 |
Movie | London: The Modern Babylon | Spoken Quotations (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
Movie | The Girl | Alma Reville Hitchcock | 2012-10-22 |
Movie | Arthur Christmas | Mrs Santa (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | The Awakening | Maud Hill | 2011-08-17 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Tall Flower Faces (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
Series | The Michael Ball Show | Unknown | 2010-08-16 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Dolores Umbridge | 2010-10-06 |
Movie | Another Year | Janet | 2010-11-05 |
Series | Psychoville | 2009-06-18 | |
Movie | Taking Woodstock | Sonia Teichberg | 2009-08-26 |
Movie | Clay | Mary Doonan | 2008-03-30 |
Series | Big & Small | 2008-10-06 | |
Movie | A Bunch of Amateurs | Mary | 2008-11-17 |
Movie | Three and Out | Rosemary Cassidy | 2008-10-12 |
Movie | Freedom Writers | Margaret Campbell | 2007-01-05 |
Series | Cranford | Miss Pole | 2007-11-18 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Dolores Umbridge | 2007-06-28 |
Movie | How About You... | Hazel Nightingale | 2007-11-16 |
Movie | Guilty Hearts | Naomi | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image | Herself | 2006-06-18 |
Movie | Shadow Man | Ambassador Cochran | 2006-09-05 |
Movie | The Wind in the Willows | Barge Lady | 2006-12-18 |
Series | Live!Girls! present Dogtown | Unknown | 2006-10-04 |
Series | Doctor Who | Voice of Interface | 2005-03-26 |
Series | Fingersmith | Mrs. Sucksby | 2005-03-27 |
Series | ShakespeaRe-Told | Unknown | 2005-11-07 |
Movie | My Family and Other Animals | Mother | 2005-12-27 |
Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mrs. Blatherwick | 2005-10-21 |
Movie | Vera Drake | Vera Drake | 2004-10-22 |
Movie | The Virgin of Liverpool | Sylvia Conlon | 2003-03-15 |
Movie | Blackball | Bridget | 2003-05-18 |
Series | Strange | Unknown | 2003-05-31 |
Movie | Bright Young Things | Lady Brown | 2003-10-03 |
Movie | I'll Be There | Dr. Bridget | 2003-06-13 |
Series | Little Britain | 2003-09-16 | |
Series | Murder | DCI Billie Dory | 2002-05-29 |
Movie | Murder | DCI Billie Dory | 2002-05-01 |
Movie | Rat | Conchita Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | Crush | Janine | 2001-08-19 |
Movie | Another Life | Ethel Graydon | 2001-06-15 |
Movie | Chicken Run | Bunty (voice) | 2000-06-21 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
Series | David Copperfield | Mrs. Micawber | 1999-12-25 |
Movie | Jack and the Beanstalk | Dilly | 1999-10-11 |
Movie | Shakespeare in Love | Nurse | 1998-01-29 |
Movie | The Ugly Duckling | Scruffy (voice) | 1997-09-04 |
Movie | Remember Me? | 1997-01-02 | |
Series | Midsomer Murders | Unknown | 1997-03-23 |
Movie | Twelfth Night | Maria | 1996-10-31 |
Series | Is It Legal? | 1995-09-12 | |
Movie | Sense and Sensibility | Charlotte Jennings Palmer | 1995-12-13 |
Movie | The Snow Queen | Ivy / Angorra | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | Citizen X | Mrs. Burakov | 1995-02-25 |
Movie | Deadly Advice | Beth Greenwood | 1994-04-29 |
Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Margaret | 1993-05-07 |
Series | If You See God, Tell Him | Muriel Spry | 1993-11-11 |
Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | Bridget Bennet | 1993-05-30 |
Movie | A Masculine Ending | Bridget Bennet | 1992-04-12 |
Movie | Peter's Friends | Mary Charleston | 1992-09-18 |
Series | Up the Garden Path | 1990-05-02 | |
Movie | Antonia and Jane | Jane Hartman | 1990-01-01 |
Series | A Bit of Fry and Laurie | Unknown | 1989-01-13 |
Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
Series | Thompson | 1988-11-10 | |
Series | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Unknown | 1987-08-02 |
Movie | Comrades | Betsy Loveless | 1987-08-23 |
Series | The Singing Detective | Staff Nurse White | 1986-11-16 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |