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).
Filmography
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2026
as Marquise de Merteuil
Midwinter Break
2026
as Stella
Winter of the Crow
2026
as Joan Andrews
Cold Storage
2026
as Trini Romano
Mr. Burton
2025
as Ma Smith
Queer
2024
as Doctor Cotter
The Critic
2024
as Annabel Land
Back to Black
2024
as Cynthia
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
as Ada Harris
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022
as The Mother
Let Him Go
2020
as Blanche Weboy
Misbehaviour
2020
as Dolores Hope
Ordinary Love
2019
as Joan
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
as Flittle
National Theatre Live: LOVE
2018
as Herself/Introduced By
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To Provide All People
2018
as Consultant Psychiatrist
Phantom Thread
2017
as Cyril Woodcock
The Agency
2017
as Anthea
Hampstead
2017
as Fiona
A Very British Brothel 2
2017
as Narrator (Voice)
Rupture
2016
as Dr. Nyman
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
The Go-Between
2015
as Mrs. Maudsley
A Very British Brothel
2015
as Herself - Narrator (voice)