Acting credits
130
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Lesley Manville
Acting
Career Snapshot
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4.9
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Movies: 66Series: 64Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 72305
IMDb ID: nm0544334
Known for: Acting
Born: March 12, 1956
Age: 70
Place of birth: Brighton, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1960 - 2026
Years active: 67
Average TMDB rating: 6.76
Wikidata: Q444410
Also known as
Lesley Ann Manville
Other jobs
Executive Producer (3)Writer (1)
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lesley Manville.
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
as Marquise de Merteuil
2026 Movie
Midwinter Break
as Stella
2026 Movie
Winter of the Crow
as Joan Andrews
2026 Movie
Cold Storage
as Trini Romano
2026 Movie
Mr. Burton
as Ma Smith
2025 Movie
Queer
as Doctor Cotter
2024 Movie
The Critic
as Annabel Land
2024 Movie
Back to Black
as Cynthia
2024 Movie
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
as Ada Harris
2022 Movie
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
as The Mother
2022 Movie
Let Him Go
as Blanche Weboy
2020 Movie
Misbehaviour
as Dolores Hope
2020 Movie
Ordinary Love
as Joan
2019 Movie
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
as Flittle
2019 Movie
National Theatre Live: LOVE
as Herself/Introduced By
2018 Movie
To Provide All People
as Consultant Psychiatrist
2018 Movie
Phantom Thread
as Cyril Woodcock
2017 Movie
The Agency
as Anthea
2017 Movie
Hampstead
as Fiona
2017 Movie
A Very British Brothel 2
as Narrator (Voice)
2017 Movie
Rupture
as Dr. Nyman
2016 Movie
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2016 Movie
The Go-Between
as Mrs. Maudsley
2015 Movie
A Very British Brothel
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lesley Manville.
Marble Hall Murders
as Susan Ryeland • 6 eps
2026 Series
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Bernice Worden • 3 eps
2025 Series
Moonflower Murders
as Susan Ryeland • 6 eps
2024 Series
Disclaimer
as Nancy Brigstocke • 7 eps
2024 Series
Grotesquerie
as Nurse Redd • 10 eps
2024 Series
Citadel
as Dahlia Archer • 13 eps
2023 Series
Dangerous Liaisons
as Genevieve de Merteuil • 8 eps
2022 Series
Sherwood
as Julie Jackson • 12 eps
2022 Series
Life After Life
as Narrator • 4 eps
2022 Series
Magpie Murders
as Susan Ryeland • 6 eps
2022 Series
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Susan • 1 eps
2020 Series
Love Life
as Narrator (voice) • 10 eps
2020 Series
World on Fire
as Robina Chase • 13 eps
2019 Series
I Am...
as Maria • 1 eps
2019 Series
Save Me
as Jennifer Charles • 6 eps
2018 Series
Harlots
as Lydia Quigley • 16 eps
2017 Series
The Crown
as Princess Margaret • 20 eps
2016 Series
Mum
as Cathy • 18 eps
2016 Series
River
as Chrissie Read • 6 eps
2015 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Fleming
as Evelyn Fleming • 4 eps
2014 Series
Mayday
as Gail Spicer • 5 eps
2013 Series
The Queen
as Margaret Thatcher • 5 eps
2009 Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2009 Series