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Lesley Manville
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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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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
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
Tears Before Bedtime
Grotesquerie
Fleming
An Adventure in Space and Time
Maleficent
River
Mayday
World on Fire
Mr. Turner
The Go-Between
The Crown
Citadel
Ain't Misbehavin'
Let Him Go
Queer
Back to Black
Sherwood
Womb
Grown-Ups
Phantom Thread
The Moon Over Soho
Harlots
The Firm
All or Nothing
Ordinary Love
O Mary This London
Disclaimer
Marble Hall Murders
Magpie Murders
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Other People's Children
Midwinter Break
Moonflower Murders
The Cazalets
Production Credits
I Am...
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
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