Celia Imrie

Actor Jul 15 (age 73) Guildford, Surrey, England, UK 1971–2025 (54 year career)

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Biography

Celia Imrie (born July 15, 1952) is an English actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie has played Marianne Bellshade in “Bergerac,” Philippa Moorcroft in “Dinnerladies,” Miss Babs in “Acorn Antiques,” Diana Neal in “After You've Gone,” and Gloria Millington in “Kingdom.” Her other roles include in the films “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” the “Bridget Jones’ Diary” series, and “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” She has been described as "one of the most successful Britis…

Known For

Film

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Fighter Pilot Bravo 5

Film

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Vice Chancellor

Film

Bridget Jones's Diary

Una Alconbury

Film

Highlander

Kate MacLeod

Film

Nanny McPhee

Mrs. Quickly

Film

Imagine Me & You

Tessa

Film

A Cure for Wellness

Victoria Watkins

Film

Bridget Jones's Baby

Una

Filmography

Acting (174)

Movies (103)

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

as Una Alconbury

6.4

The Thursday Murder Club

2025

as Joyce

6.6

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

2024

as E. Nesbit

Love Again

as Gina Valentine

Good Grief

as Imelda

Fifty-Four Days

as Gloria

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm

2022

as Miss Womble

5.1

Robbie Coltrane at the BBC

2022

as Self - Presenter

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem

2022

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Louisa: An Amazing Adventure

2021

as May Crocombe (voice)

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

as Malabelle

Love Sarah

as Mimi

Cinderella: After Ever After

2019

as Madame Blackheart

7.1

D-Day 75: A Tribute to Heroes

2019

as Self

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

as Vice Chancellor

Malevolent

as Mrs. Green

To Provide All People

as Patient

Nativity Rocks!

as Mrs. Keen

One Evening In June

as Beth

A Cure for Wellness

as Victoria Watkins

Monster Family

as Cheyenne (voice)

Finding Your Feet

as Bif

Year by the Sea

as Erikson

Bridget Jones's Baby

as Una

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016

as Claudia Bing

5.3

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

2016

as Self

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

as Madge Hardcastle

6.4

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

as Edna

The Love Punch

as Pen

What We Did on Our Holiday

2014

as Agnes Chisolm

6.7

Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!

2014

as Mrs. Keen

4.5

Remembering Douglas Camfield

2013

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2012

as Madge Hardcastle

7.0

Acts of Godfrey

2012

as Helen McGann

My Angel

as The Librarian

Lost Connection

as Mum

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010

as Enid Wicklow

5.9

The Man Who Married Himself

2010

as Mother

8.0

The Road to Coronation Street

2010

as Doris Speed

7.1

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV

2009

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

2009

as Matron

5.6

Stanley Baxter: Now and Then

2008

as Self

Player

2008

as Laetitia

St Trinian's

2007

as Hausmutter

5.9

Dangerous Liaisons

2007

as Emily Coulter

Imagine Me & You

2006

as Tessa

7.6

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

2006

as Miss Babs

7.0

The Lavender List

2006

as Mary Wilson

Nanny McPhee

2005

as Mrs. Quickly

6.7

Wah-Wah

2005

as Lady Riva Hardwick

5.8

Mr Harvey Lights a Candle

2005

as Miss Davies

7.5

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

as Una Alconbury

Wimbledon

as Lydice Kenwood

Thora Hird Tribute

as Philippa, Claire (archive footage, uncredited)

Out of Bounds

2003

as Doctor Imogen Reed

Heartlands

as Sonja

Calendar Girls

as Celia

The Planman

as Gail Forrester

Thunderpants

as Miss Rapier

Plain Jane

as Ellen Reynolds

The Gathering Storm

as Violet Pearman

A Is for Acid

as Rose Henderson

Bridget Jones's Diary

as Una Alconbury

Revelation

as Harriet Martel

Station Jim

as Miss Frazier

Lucky Break

as Amy

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Self/Various Characters

6.5

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999

as Fighter Pilot Bravo 5

A Christmas Carol

as Mrs. Bennett

Hilary and Jackie

as Iris Du Pré

Mr White Goes To Westminster

1997

as Victoria Madison

2.0

The Canterville Ghost

1997

as Lucy Otis

The Borrowers

as Homily Clock

Hospital!

as Sister Muriel

Into the Blue

as Nadine Cunningham

The Writing on the Wall

1996

as Kirsty

2.3

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Fadge

7.1

A Very Open Prison

1995

as Victoria Bridgewater

10.0

The Return of the Native

1994

as Susan Nunsuch

6.1

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Mrs. Moritz

Pat and Margaret

as Claire

Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

1993

as Lady MacDonald

Thacker

1992

as Ann Hadon Smith

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

Blue Black Permanent

as Barbara Thorburn

The Harmfulness of Tobacco

1991

102 Boulevard Haussmann

1990

as Madame Massis

6.0

Old Flames

1990

as Davina Wright / Hopjoy

The World of Eddie Weary

1990

as Birdie

Murder on the Moon

1989

as Patsy Diehl

2.8

An Audience With Victoria Wood

as Self - Questioner

Acorn Antiques

as Babs

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

1987

as Self

Highlander

as Kate MacLeod

The Wicked Lady

as Servant at Inn

The Nightmare Man

as Fiona Patterson

Death on the Nile

as Maid (uncredited)

Ice Age

as Housemaid

House of Whipcord

as Barbara

Assassin

as Stacy's Secretary

The Temptation Of Gracie

as Gracie Burton

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint

as Gloria Lynn

Down, Down, Down

as Sylvia

Television (71)

The Celebrity Traitors

as Self - Contestant

The Diplomat

as Meg Roylin

The Savoy

as Narrator

Patrick Melrose

as Kettle

Hang Ups

as Maggie Pitt

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

as Mary Xavier

Better Things

as Phil

A Life on Screen

as Self

Vicious

as Lillian Haverfield-Wickham

Blandings

as Charlotte

Talking Pictures

as Narrator

Titanic

as Grace Rushton

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2012

as Miss Christmasham

6.9

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Lewis

as Michelle Marber

Cranford

as Lady Glenmire

Kingdom

as Gloria Millington

After You've Gone

as Diana

The One Show

as Self

Doctor Who

as Miss Kizlet

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as E. Nesbit

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Madame Joilet

7.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

6.7

The Paul O'Grady Show

2004

4.6

The Terry and Gaby Show

Timeshift

as self

Still Game

Daniel Deronda

as Mrs. Meyrick

Doctor Zhivago

as Anna Gromyko

Sparkhouse

as Kate Lawton

Love in a Cold Climate

as Aunt Sadie

Gormenghast

as Lady Gertrude

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

2000

6.5

Microsoap

1998

as Miss Cottingham

dinnerladies

1998

as Philippa Moorcroft

Duck Patrol

as Mrs. Calloway

Midsomer Murders

as Louise August

Jonathan Creek

as Thelma Bailey

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

1997

as Mrs. Miller

7.0

Wokenwell

1997

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996

as Nightclub owner

7.3

Black Hearts in Battersea

1995

as Duchess Of Battersea

Class Act

1994

as Class Act

A Dark Adapted Eye

1994

as Vera

6.0

The Riff Raff Element

as Joanna Tundish

Heartbeat

as Sylvia Langley

Absolutely Fabulous

as Claudia Bing

The Darling Buds of May

1991

as Corinne Perigo

7.8

All Good Things

1991

as Rachel Bromley

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1990

as Miss Jewsbury

6.5

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as 'Aunt' Kathy Cloade

Stay Lucky

as Julie Vernon

Victoria Wood

as Carol

The New Statesman

as Hilary

Casualty

as Elizabeth Clayton

Lovejoy

as Lady Felicity Carey-Holden

7.3

Screen Two

1985

as Victoria Bridgewater

6.8

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Acorn Antiques

as Miss Babs

Taggart

Cloud Howe

as Else Queen

Bergerac

as Marianne

The Nightmare Man

as Fiona Patterson

Shoestring

To the Manor Born

as Polly

BBC2 Play of the Week

as Housemaid

Van der Valk

as Marijke Dekker

Upstairs, Downstairs

as Jenny

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

as Edith Nesbit

7.4

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Susan Nunsuch

8.6

Tomb Raider

as Francine