Imelda Staunton

Actor Jan 9 (age 70) Archway, London, England, UK 1974–2026 (52 year career)

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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 Woo…

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Dolores Umbridge

Film

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dolores Umbridge

Film

Maleficent

Knotgrass

Film

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Knotgrass

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Talking Flowers (voice)

Film

The Crown

Queen Elizabeth II

Film

Freedom Writers

Margaret Campbell

Film

Paddington

Aunt Lucy (voice)

Filmography

Acting (142)

Movies (96)

& Sons

2026 Upcoming

as Isabel

Jun 19

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

2025

as Mrs Peggy Warren

Testimony

2025

as Narrator (voice)

Paddington in Peru

2024

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

6.8

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

as Bunty (voice)

6.9

The Canterville Ghost

2023

as Mrs Umney (voice)

6.7

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

as Maud Bagshaw

7.2

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

2022

as Self

8.0

Victorian Britain on Film

2021

as Narrator

8.0

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

2021

as Self

Amulet

2020

as Sister Claire

5.3

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

as reader

The Far Traveller

as Narrator

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

2020

as Self - Readings

6.0

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

as Knotgrass

Downton Abbey

as Maud Bagshaw

A Confession As Told By ITV News

2019

as Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards

Paddington 2

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

Finding Your Feet

as Sandra Abbott

National Theatre Live: Follies

2017

as Sally Durant Plummer

8.0

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

as Narrator

7.3

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2017

as Martha

6.2

Little Bird

2017

as First Officer Simpkins

9.0

Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

2016

as Self

Gypsy

as Rose

Maleficent

as Knotgrass

Paddington

as Aunt Lucy (voice)

Pride

as Hefina

That Day We Sang

as Enid

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

2014

as Self

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

2013

as Shrew (voice)

6.0

The Girl

2012

as Alma Reville Hitchcock

6.1

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012

as Queen Victoria (voice)

6.5

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

as Spoken Quotations (voice)

6.3

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2012

as Mrs. Lovett

Arthur Christmas

as Mrs Santa (voice)

The Awakening

as Maud Hill

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Dolores Umbridge

7.7

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Talking Flowers (voice)

Another Year

as Janet

White Other

as Lynne McDermott

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010

as Grace Andrews

Taking Woodstock

2009

as Sonia Teichberg

6.2

Adapting Austen

2009

as Self

Three and Out

as Rosemary Cassidy

Clay

as Mary Doonan

A Bunch of Amateurs

as Mary

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

as Dolores Umbridge

Freedom Writers

as Margaret Campbell

Guilty Hearts

as Naomi

How About You...

as Hazel Nightingale

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007

as Self

Where Have I Been All Your Life?

2007

as Angela

Shadow Man

2006

as Ambassador Cochran

4.3

The Wind in the Willows

2006

as Barge Lady

5.8

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

as Herself

Nanny McPhee

as Mrs. Blatherwick

My Family and Other Animals

as Mother

Vera Drake

as Vera Drake

Blackball

as Bridget

Bright Young Things

as Lady Brown

I'll Be There

as Dr. Bridget

The Virgin of Liverpool

as Sylvia Conlon

Crush

as Janine

Ready

as Naomi

Another Life

as Ethel Graydon

Chicken Run

as Bunty (voice)

Rat

as Conchita Flynn

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Mrs. Cottisloe

6.5

Jack and the Beanstalk

as Dilly (voice)

Shakespeare in Love

as Nurse

Remember Me?

as Lorna

The Ugly Duckling

as Scruffy (voice)

Twelfth Night

as Maria

The Adventures of Toad

1996

as Voice

The Snow Queen's Revenge

1996

as Elspeth / Rowena (voice)

5.5

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as Charlotte Jennings Palmer

Citizen X

as Mrs. Burakov

The Pen

The Wind in the Willows

as Mother Squirrel

The Snow Queen

as Ivy / Angorra

The Adventures of Mole

as Voice

Deadly Advice

as Beth Greenwood

Mole's Christmas

as (voices)

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

as Margaret

6.9

Don't Leave Me This Way

1993

as Bridget Bennet

7.0

A Masculine Ending

1992

as Bridget Bennet

Roots

1992

as Jenny Beales

Peter's Friends

1992

as Mary Charleston

6.6

They Never Slept

1991

as The Producer

The Englishman's Wife

1990

as Stephanie

Antonia and Jane

as Jane Hartman

Yellowbacks

as Cheryl Newman

The Heat of the Day

as Louie

Comrades

1987

as Betsy Loveless

6.8

Easy Money

1982

as Mary Price

Television (46)

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

as Self

Trying

as Penny

Flesh and Blood

as Mary Bennett

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

as Irene Ruddock

Brassic

as Edie

A Confession

as Karen Edwards

The Crown

as Queen Elizabeth II

8.2

Lily's Driftwood Bay

2014

as Rowena Rabbit (voice)

4.0

The Story of Musicals

2012

as Self – Narrator (voice)

The Michael Ball Show

2010

as Self

Psychoville

Big & Small

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Cranford

as Miss Pole

Cranford

as Self/Miss Octavia Pole

8.2

The One Show

2006

as Self

4.4

Live! Girls! Present Dogtown

2006

Doctor Who

2005

as Interface (voice)

7.6

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

Fingersmith

as Mrs. Sucksby

ShakespeaRe-Told

Little Britain

as Mrs. Mead

Strange

as Reverend Mary Truegood

Cambridge Spies

as The Queen

Murder

as DCI Billie Dory

David Copperfield

as Mrs. Micawber

Midsomer Murders

as Christine Cooper

Look at the State We're In!

1995

as Councillor Johnson

Is It Legal?

1995

5.5

Frank Stubbs Promotes

1993

as Susan

6.0

If You See God, Tell Him

as Muriel Spry

Performance

as Jenny Beales

Up the Garden Path

Tales from the Crypt

as Sarah

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

The Play on One

as Cheryl Newman

Thompson

as Self

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Polly Flinders

6.3

The Singing Detective

as Staff Nurse White

Ladies in Charge

as Edith

Ladies in Charge

Screen Two

as The Producer

Natural World

as Narrator

Playhouse

as Mary Price

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee