Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton is an English stage and screen actor. She was nominated for a 2016 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Gypsy.

Theatre credits include: Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! (Adelphi), Sally Durant Plummer in Follies (NT), Mama Rose in Gypsy (Chichester Festival and West End), Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Festival Theatre and West End. Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical), Margie in Good People (Hampstead Theatre and West End), Marty in Circle Mirror Transformation (Royal Court Theatre), Claire in A Delicate Balance and Margaret in There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida Theatre), Kath in Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios), Nora in Calico (Sonia Friedman Productions), Ines in Life x 3, Lucy Lockit in The Beggar’s Opera, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Hannah in A Chorus of Disapproval (all National Theatre. Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress), Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (RSC), Sonya in Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville).

Television includes: the upcoming That Day We Sang, The Girl (BAFTA and Emmy nominations for Best Actress), Psychoville, Cranford Chronicles, Fingersmith, Strange, My Family And Other Animals, Cambridge Spies, David Copperfield, Is It Legal, The Singing Detective, Up the Garden Path, Frank Stubbs and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Films include: Pride, Maleficent, The Awakening, Another Year, Taking Woodstock, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Freedom Writers, Vera Drake.

Awards include: Best Actress Awards from BAFTA, The Evening Standard Awards, Venice Film Festival and British Independent Films Awards, Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards Best Actress nominations.