Lesley Sharp

Actor Apr 3 (age 66) Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK 1964–2025 (61 year career)

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Biography

Lesley Sharp is an outstanding film and television actress who has been nominated for many prestigious awards, including BAFTA Best Supporting Actress (nominated) for 'The Full Monty', RTS Television Award for Best Actress (Winner) and Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress (Winner) for her drama series for 'Afterlife'.

Known For

Film

From Hell

Kate Eddowes

Film

The Full Monty

Jean Horsefall

Film

Inkheart

Mortola

Film

Naked

Louise

Film

The Diary of Anne Frank

Petronella Van Daan

Film

Vera Drake

Jessie Barnes

Film

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Joan Hunter

Film

Help

Gaynor

Filmography

Acting (91)

Movies (46)

Pillion

2025

as Peggy

6.3

Prime Suspect: Murder In Suburbia

2024

as Narrator

6.0

MH17: The Plane Crash That Shook The World

2024

as Narrator - (Voice)

Frank Bough: National Treasure, National Disgrace

2023

as Narrator

Catherine Called Birdy

as Morwenna

Help

as Gaynor

National Theatre Live: Paradise

2021

as Philoctetes

Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings

as Narrator (voice)

Brighton

as Doreen

Spoon Fed

as Ellie

Dusty and Me

as Lil Springfield

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

2017

as Alice

8.3

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

as Self

Peekaboo

2015

as Emily

National Theatre Archive: A Taste of Honey

2014

as Helen

Married to the Moonies

2012

as Narrator

Shirley

2011

as Eliza Bassey

6.5

Whistle and I'll Come to You

as Hetty

In Passing

as Fay Travers

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

as Joan Hunter

Inkheart

as Mortola

Planespotting

as Lesley Coppin

Our Hidden Lives

as Edie Rutherford

Born With Two Mothers

2005

as Laura Mayfield

Vera Drake

2004

as Jessie Barnes

7.2

Carrie's War

2004

as Louisa Evans, aka 'Aunty Lou'

Carla

as Helen North

Cheeky

as Kath

The Second Coming

as Judith Roach

Paul Gascoigne "Gazza" in China

2003

as Self - Narrator

From Hell

as Kate Eddowes

Great Expectations

as Mrs. Joe

The Full Monty

as Jean Horsefall

The Moonstone

as Rosanna Spearman

Priest

as Mrs. Unsworth

Syrup

as Ms. James

Speaking In Tongues

as Susan

Naked

as Louise

Close My Eyes

as Jessica

Top Girls

as Dull Gret / Angie

Wedded

1990

as Woman

Night Voice

1990

as Marion Parkin

The Rachel Papers

as Jenny

The Love Child

as Bernadette

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

as Michelle

Road

as Valerie

Television (45)

Red Eye

2024

as Director General Madeline Delaney

The Full Monty

as Jean Horsefall

Art That Made Us

as Self - Actrice (Scott & Bailey)

Fate: The Winx Saga

as Rosalind

Before We Die

as Hannah Laing

Heaven Made

as Narrator

Inside the Bank of England

2019

as Narrator (Voice)

Three Girls

2017

as DC Margaret Oliver

Living the Dream

as Jen Pemberton

Paranoid

as Lucy Cannonbury

Capital

as Mary

Starlings

The Shadow Line

Scott & Bailey

as DC Janet Scott

Moving On

as Sylvie

The Diary of Anne Frank

2009

as Petronella Van Daan

7.3

Angela and Friends

2009

5.0

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

2009

as Self

7.0

Keep It In The Family

The Children

as Anne

Cranford

as Mrs Bell

Doctor Who

as Sky Silvestry

Afterlife

as Alison Mundy

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Hetty

Monkey Trousers

2005

7.3

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

The Second Coming

as Judith Roach

Bob & Rose

as Rose Cooper

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

2000

as Glorfinoid (voice)

Clocking Off

as Trudy Graham

Nature Boy

as Martha

Great Expectations

as Mrs Joe

Daylight Robbery

Playing the Field

as Theresa Mullen

The Peter Principle

as Susan Harvey

Common As Muck

as Christine Stranks

Dandelion Dead

as Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies

8.0

Frank Stubbs Promotes

as Petra Dillon

Nights

Prime Suspect

as Anne Sutherland

Performance

as Angie

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Miss Martindale

This Morning

as Self

A Ghost Story for Christmas

as Hetty

Horizon

as Narrator