IMELDA STAUNTON
Date of Birth: January 9, 1956
This native of England became good friends with the likes of great British actors such as Emma
Thompson, Hugh Lauri and Stephen Fry while attending Cambridge University. With the drama
experience she gained at school, Staunton began an extensive British theater career, adding
classical work, contemporary plays and musicals to her résumé. Her work has been rewarded with
four Olivier Award nominations, winning three times (Best Supporting Actress for A Chorus of
Disapproval in 1985, Best Supporting Actress for The Corn is Green in 1985 and Best
Actress in a Musical for Into the Woods in 1991). She also has won the Edinburgh Fringe
First for The Lady and the Clarinet.
Her work on the screen began in 1986 and was focused almost entirely on television projects for
the next ten years. Following strong performances in telefilms like A Sleeping Life, A
Masculine Ending and series like Thompson and Up the Garden Path, Staunton became
visible to feature film audiences in Peter's Friends (performing with her university
buddies), Much Ado About Nothing, Sense and Sensibility, Twelfth Night and
Shakespeare in Love (for which she shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by a Cast). For her starring role in Vera Drake (2004), Imelda received nominations from the Golden Globes, Academy Awards and BAFTA awards, as well as winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.
She has also done a number of voice projects, lending her vocal talents to animated films like The Ugly Duckling (1997), Chicken Run (2000), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Arthur Christmas (2011) and The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012).
Imelda has been married to actor Jim Carter since 1985. They have one child.
Filmography:
The Girl(2012)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) (voice)
Arthur Christmas (2011) (voice)
The Awakening(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1(2010)
Another Year(2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010) (voice)
Taking Woodstock(2009)
A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
Three and Out (2008)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(2007)
Freedom Writers(2007)
Nanny McPhee(2005)
Vera Drake(2004)
I'll Be There(2003)
Blackball (2003)
Bright Young Things(2003)
The Virgin of Liverpool (2003)
Crush (2002)
Rat (2000)
Chicken Run (2000) (voice)
Another Life (1999)
The Canterbury Tales (1998) (voice)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Ugly Duckling (1997) (voice)
Remember Me? (1997)
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Deadly Advice (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Antonia and Jane (1991)
They Never Slept (1990)
Comrades (1987)