Lesley Manville
Acting
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).
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marquise de Merteuil
Winter of the Crow
Joan Andrews
Midwinter Break
Stella
Cold Storage
Trini Romano
Mr. Burton
Ma Smith
Queer
Doctor Cotter
The Critic
Annabel Land
Back to Black
Cynthia
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ada Harris
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
The Mother
Let Him Go
Blanche Weboy
Misbehaviour
Dolores Hope
Ordinary Love
Joan
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Flittle
National Theatre Live: LOVE
Herself/Introduced By
To Provide All People
Consultant Psychiatrist
Phantom Thread
Cyril Woodcock
The Agency
Anthea
Hampstead
Fiona
A Very British Brothel 2
Narrator (Voice)
Rupture
Dr. Nyman
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
The Go-Between
Mrs. Maudsley
A Very British Brothel
Herself - Narrator (voice)
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Miss Adderstone
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Self
Mr. Turner
Mary Somerville
Ghosts
Helene Alving
Maleficent
Flittle
The Christmas Candle
Bea Haddington
An Adventure in Space and Time
Heather Hartnell
Romeo & Juliet
The Nurse
A Five Star Life
Kate Sherman
Spike Island
Margaret
Ashes
Cath
Another Year
Mary
Womb
Judith
A Christmas Carol
Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
Sparkle
Jill
Perfect Parents
Sister Antonia
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
Sarah
Vera Drake
Mrs. Wells
Promoted to Glory
Capt. Annie Sullivan
All or Nothing
Penny
Plain Jane
Dora Bruce
David Copperfield
Emma Micawber
Topsy-Turvy
Lucy Gilbert
Toy Boys
Mrs. Allen
Milk
Fiona
Dual Balls
Joanna
Secrets & Lies
The Social Worker
O Mary This London
Sophie
A Statement of Affairs
Carol
Bad Girl
Penny Armitage
Top Girls
Marlene
The Firm
Sue Bissell
High Hopes
Lætitia Boothe-Brain
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Margy
High Season
Carol
Christmas Present
Judy Tall
The Moon Over Soho
Sally Spencer
Dance with a Stranger
Maryanne
Angels in the Annexe
Jenny Bailey
Dog Ends
Vivienne
Our Winnie
Liz
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self (archive footage)
Grown-Ups
Mandy