Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 12, 1956
Place of Birth
Brighton, England, UK
Credits
143 titles
Lesley Manville
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).
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marquise de Merteuil
Midwinter Break
Stella
Winter of the Crow
Joan Andrews
Cold Storage
Trini Romano
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Bernice Worden
Mr. Burton
Ma Smith
Queer
Doctor Cotter
Moonflower Murders
Susan Ryeland
Disclaimer
Nancy Brigstocke
Grotesquerie
Nurse Redd
The Critic
Annabel Land
Back to Black
Cynthia
Citadel
Dahlia Archer
Dangerous Liaisons
Genevieve de Merteuil
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ada Harris
Sherwood
Julie Jackson
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
The Mother
Life After Life
Narrator
Magpie Murders
Susan Ryeland
Let Him Go
Blanche Weboy
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Susan
Love Life
Narrator (voice)
Misbehaviour
Dolores Hope
Ordinary Love
Joan
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Flittle
World on Fire
Robina Chase
I Am...
Maria
National Theatre Live: LOVE
Herself/Introduced By
To Provide All People
Consultant Psychiatrist
Save Me
Jennifer Charles
Phantom Thread
Cyril Woodcock
The Agency
Anthea
Hampstead
Fiona
Harlots
Lydia Quigley
A Very British Brothel 2
Narrator (Voice)
The Crown
Princess Margaret
Rupture
Dr. Nyman
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
Mum
Cathy
River
Chrissie Read
The Go-Between
Mrs. Maudsley
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
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
Fleming
Evelyn Fleming
The Christmas Candle
Bea Haddington