
Lesley Manville
1 FOLLOWER • 58 CREDITS • MAR 12, 1956 • 69
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).
Known For

Midsomer Murders

The Graham Norton Show

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Crown

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Performance

Law & Order: UK

Silent Witness

Coronation Street

Barlow

I Am...

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Love Life

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

A Christmas Carol

LOVE

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Spike Island

Cranford

The One and Only Mike Leigh

Life After Life

Secrets & Lies

Citadel

Tears Before Bedtime

Fleming

Cold Storage

Grotesquerie

River

Mr. Turner

World on Fire

Maleficent

The Go-Between

An Adventure in Space and Time

Mayday

Let Him Go

Ain't Misbehavin'

Queer

Back to Black

Sherwood

Grown-Ups

The Moon Over Soho

Womb

Phantom Thread

Disclaimer

The Firm

Ordinary Love

O Mary This London

All or Nothing

Harlots

The Cazalets

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Magpie Murders

Midwinter Break

Marble Hall Murders

Other People's Children

Moonflower Murders
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