Lesley Manville

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1956-03-12

Place of Birth

Brighton, England, UK

Lesley Manville

Biography

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).

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Acting History

2026
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as Marquise de Merteuil
2026
Midwinter Break as Stella
2026
Winter of the Crow as Joan Andrews
2026
Cold Storage as Trini Romano
2025
Monster: The Ed Gein Story as Bernice Worden
2025
Mr. Burton as Ma Smith
2024
Queer as Doctor Cotter
2024
Moonflower Murders as Susan Ryeland
2024
Disclaimer as Nancy Brigstocke
2024
Grotesquerie as Nurse Redd
2024
The Critic as Annabel Land
2024
Back to Black as Cynthia
2023
Citadel as Dahlia Archer
2022
Dangerous Liaisons as Genevieve de Merteuil
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Ada Harris
2022
Sherwood as Julie Jackson
2022
Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as The Mother
2022
Life After Life as Narrator
2022
Magpie Murders as Susan Ryeland
2020
Let Him Go as Blanche Weboy
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Susan
2020
Love Life as Narrator (voice)
2020
Misbehaviour as Dolores Hope
2019
Ordinary Love as Joan
2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Flittle
2019
World on Fire as Robina Chase
2019
I Am... as Maria
2018
LOVE as Herself/Introduced By
2018
To Provide All People as Consultant Psychiatrist
2017
Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
2017
The Agency as Anthea
2017
Hampstead as Fiona
2017
Harlots as Lydia Quigley
2017
A Very British Brothel 2 as Narrator (Voice)
2016
The Crown as Princess Margaret
2016
Rupture as Dr. Nyman
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2016
Mum as Cathy
2015
River as Chrissie Read
2015
The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
2015
A Very British Brothel as Herself - Narrator (voice)
2015
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Adderstone
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2014
Mr. Turner as Mary Somerville
2014
Ghosts as Helene Alving
2014
Maleficent as Flittle
2014
Fleming as Evelyn Fleming
2013
The Christmas Candle as Bea Haddington
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time as Heather Hartnell
2013
Romeo & Juliet as The Nurse
2013
A Five Star Life as Kate Sherman
2013
Mayday as Gail Spicer
2012
Spike Island as Margaret
2012
Ashes as Cath
2010
Another Year as Mary
2010
Womb as Judith
2009
The Queen as Margaret Thatcher
2009
A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009
Law & Order: UK
2007
Cranford as Mrs. Rose
2007
Sparkle as Jill
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006
Perfect Parents as Sister Antonia
2005
The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael as Sarah
2004
North & South as Mrs. Maria Hale
2004
Vera Drake as Mrs. Wells
2003
Promoted to Glory as Capt. Annie Sullivan
2002
All or Nothing as Penny
2002
Bodily Harm as Mandy Greenfield
2002
Rose and Maloney
2002
Plain Jane as Dora Bruce
2001
David Copperfield as Emma Micawber
2001
The Cazalets as Villy Cazalet
2000
Other People's Children as Nadine
1999
Topsy-Turvy as Lucy Gilbert
1999
Loose Women as Self
1999
Toy Boys as Mrs. Allen
1999
Milk as Fiona
1997
Painted Lady as Susie Peel
1997
Holding On as Hilary
1997
Midsomer Murders as Phoebe Archbold
1997
Dual Balls as Joanna
1996
Secrets & Lies as The Social Worker
1996
The Bite as Ellie Shannon
1996
Silent Witness
1995
Tears Before Bedtime as Beattie Freeman
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. as Lucy Cartwright
1994
Little Napoleons as Judith Silver
1994
O Mary This London as Sophie
1994
Ain't Misbehavin' as Melissa Quigley
1993
Goggle Eyes as Rosalind Killin
1993
A Statement of Affairs as Carol
1993
The Mushroom Picker as Margot
1992
Bad Girl as Penny Armitage
1991
Top Girls as Marlene
1991
Performance as Marlene
1991
Soldier Soldier as Rachel Elliot
1991
Soldier Soldier as Rachel Fortune
1989
The Firm as Sue Bissell
1989
High Hopes as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Lorrimer
1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Margy
1987
High Season as Carol
1985
Christmas Present as Judy Tall
1985
The Moon Over Soho as Sally Spencer
1985
Bulman
1985
Dance with a Stranger as Maryanne
1985
Screen Two as Sophie
1984
Angels in the Annexe as Jenny Bailey
1984
Dog Ends as Vivienne
1982
Objects of Affection as Liz
1982
Our Winnie as Liz
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
1980
Grown-Ups as Mandy
1980
The Gentle Touch
1977
King Cinder as Nikki
1977
A Bunch of Fives as Helen Wyatt
1974
Playhouse as Mandy
1970
Play for Today as Vivienne
1960
Coronation Street as Jill Mason
Jack of Spades
Marble Hall Murders as Susan Ryeland