Imelda Staunton Biography

CIVIL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth Name Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton
Nationality British
Born 9 January 1956 (London – England)
BIOGRAPHY
A former classmate of Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry at Cambridge University, Imelda Staunton has spent most of her career on stage. A renowned theatre actress in Great Britain, her work has been awarded three times with an Olivier Award.

In 1986, Imelda Staunton left the stage for a while to go in front of the camera. She devotes herself largely to television, but appears regularly on the big screen, in small roles (Much Ado About Nothing by Kenneth Branagh, Ang Lee’s Reason and Feelings, or Shakespeare in Love by John Madden)

The actress lends her voice several times to animated films such as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling or more recently Chicken Run, and continues to star in TV movies and TV series. But it was really in 2005 that she gained greater cinematic notoriety, with the title role in Vera Drake, a film by Mike Leigh, awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (she herself won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress), in which she played an “angel maker”, a devoted mother and respectable neighbour who secretly helps young girls to have abortions.

A year later, she starred in Kirk Jones’ Nanny McPhee, where she reunited with Emma Thompson before joining the set of Write to Exist, where she co-starred with Hilary Swank. In 2007, British director David Yates asked him to join the Hogwarts teaching team. Imelda Staunton plays the new defense against the Dark Arts professor in the fifth installment of the adventures of the most famous wizard Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.