
Lesley Manville
Acting
Born 1956-03-12 · Brighton, England, UK
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).
Acting

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marquise de Merteuil

Midwinter Break
Stella

Winter of the Crow
Joan Andrews

Cold Storage
Trini Romano

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Bernice Worden

Mr. Burton
Ma Smith

Queer
Doctor Cotter

Moonflower Murders
Susan Ryeland

Disclaimer
Nancy Brigstocke

Grotesquerie
Nurse Redd

The Critic
Annabel Land

Back to Black
Cynthia

Citadel
Dahlia Archer

Dangerous Liaisons
Genevieve de Merteuil

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ada Harris

Sherwood
Julie Jackson

Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
The Mother

Life After Life
Narrator

Magpie Murders
Susan Ryeland

Let Him Go
Blanche Weboy

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Susan

Love Life
Narrator (voice)

Misbehaviour
Dolores Hope

Ordinary Love
Joan

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Flittle

World on Fire
Robina Chase

I Am...
Maria

National Theatre Live: LOVE
Herself/Introduced By
To Provide All People
Consultant Psychiatrist

Phantom Thread
Cyril Woodcock