Lesley Manville

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).

Cast

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