Personal Info
Birth date
1956-03-12 (69 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brighton, England, UK
Also known as
Lesley Ann Manville
Леслі Менвілл
莱丝利·曼维尔 饰
لزلی منویل
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
Midsomer Murders
7.508
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.16
Overview:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.The Graham Norton Show
7.185
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.083
Overview:
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.The Crown
8.207
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.Coronation Street
5.416
Overview:
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.Silent Witness
7.6
Overview:
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.Maleficent
7.089
Overview:
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.Citadel
6.826
Overview:
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn’t know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they’re called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future. Part 2 of the Citadel Universe (1. Honey Bunny, 2. Citadel S1, 3. Citadel:Diana)Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
7.304
Overview:
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.Disclaimer
7.414
Overview:
When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.Grotesquerie
7.264
Overview:
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.Law & Order: UK
6.974
Overview:
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.Soldier Soldier
6.6
Overview:
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.Loose Women
3.2
Overview:
A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.Cranford
8.2
Overview:
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.Love Life
6.9
Overview:
A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.Kavanagh Q.C.
6.75
Overview:
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.Harlots
7.423
Overview:
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.Queer
6.675
Overview:
1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.A Christmas Carol
6.892
Overview:
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.Rupture
4.882
Overview:
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.Moonflower Murders
7.769
Overview:
Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?Sherwood
7.042
Overview:
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.The Gentle Touch
6.9
Overview:
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.Acting
TBAMarble Hall Murders (1 Episode) as Susan Ryeland
TBAMidwinter Break as Stella
TBACold Storage as Trini Romano
2026Winter of the Crow as Joan Andrews
2025Mr. Burton as Ma Smith
2024Queer as Doctor Cotter
2024Moonflower Murders (6 Episodes) as Susan Ryeland
2024Disclaimer (7 Episodes) as Nancy Brigstocke
2024Grotesquerie (10 Episodes) as Nurse Redd
2024The Critic as Annabel Land
2024Back to Black as Cynthia
2023Citadel (7 Episodes) as Dahlia Archer
2022Dangerous Liaisons (8 Episodes) as Genevieve de Merteuil
2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Ada Harris
2022Sherwood (12 Episodes) as Julie Jackson
2022Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as The Mother
2022Life After Life (4 Episodes) as Narrator
2022Magpie Murders (6 Episodes) as Susan Ryeland
2020Let Him Go as Blanche Weboy
2020Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (1 Episode) as Susan
2020Love Life (10 Episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2020Misbehaviour as Dolores Hope
2019Ordinary Love as Joan
2019Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Flittle
2019World on Fire (13 Episodes) as Robina Chase
2019I Am... (1 Episode) as Maria
2018LOVE as Herself/Introduced By
2018To Provide All People as Consultant Psychiatrist
2017Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
2017The Agency as Anthea
2017Hampstead as Fiona
2017Harlots (16 Episodes) as Lydia Quigley
2017A Very British Brothel 2 as Narrator (Voice)
2016Rupture as Dr. Nyman
2016The Crown (20 Episodes) as Princess Margaret
2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2016Mum (18 Episodes) as Cathy
2015River (6 Episodes) as Chrissie Read
2015The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
2015A Very British Brothel as Herself - Narrator (voice)
2015Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Adderstone
2014The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2014Mr. Turner as Mary Somerville
2014Ghosts as Helene Alving
2014Maleficent as Flittle
2014Fleming (4 Episodes) as Evelyn Fleming
2013The Christmas Candle as Bea Haddington
2013An Adventure in Space and Time as Heather Hartnell
2013Romeo & Juliet as The Nurse
2013A Five Star Life as Kate Sherman
2013Mayday (5 Episodes) as Gail Spicer
2012Spike Island as Margaret
2012Ashes as Cath
201014 Actors Acting as Self
2010Another Year as Mary
2010Womb as Judith
2009The Queen (5 Episodes) as Margaret Thatcher
2009A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2009Law & Order: UK (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Cranford (7 Episodes) as Mrs. Rose
2007Sparkle as Jill
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2006Perfect Parents as Sister Antonia
2005The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael as Sarah
2004North & South (4 Episodes) as Mrs. Maria Hale
2004Vera Drake as Mrs. Wells
2003Promoted to Glory as Capt. Annie Sullivan
2002All or Nothing as Penny
2002Bodily Harm (2 Episodes) as Mandy Greenfield
2002Rose and Maloney (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Plain Jane as Dora Bruce
2001David Copperfield as Emma Micawber
2001The Cazalets (6 Episodes) as Villy Cazalet
2000Other People's Children (4 Episodes) as Nadine
1999Topsy-Turvy as Lucy Gilbert
1999Loose Women (1 Episode) as Self
1999Toy Boys as Mrs. Allen
1999Milk as Fiona
1997Painted Lady (2 Episodes) as Susie Peel
1997Holding On (8 Episodes) as Hilary
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Phoebe Archbold
1997Dual Balls as Joanna
1996Secrets & Lies as The Social Worker
1996The Bite (2 Episodes) as Ellie Shannon
1996Silent Witness (1 Episode) as Unknown
1995Tears Before Bedtime (4 Episodes) as Beattie Freeman
1995Kavanagh Q.C. (1 Episode) as Lucy Cartwright
1994Little Napoleons (4 Episodes) as Judith Silver
1994O Mary This London as Sophie
1994Ain't Misbehavin' (6 Episodes) as Melissa Quigley
1993Goggle Eyes (4 Episodes) as Rosalind Killin
1993A Statement of Affairs as Carol
1993The Mushroom Picker (3 Episodes) as Margot
1992Bad Girl as Penny Armitage
1991Top Girls as Marlene
1991Performance (1 Episode) as Marlene
1991Soldier Soldier (2, 3 Episode) as Rachel Elliot, Rachel Fortune
1989The Firm as Sue Bissell
1989High Hopes as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 Episode) as Mrs. Lorrimer
1987Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as Margy
1987High Season as Carol
1985Christmas Present as Judy Tall
1985The Moon Over Soho as Sally Spencer
1985Bulman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985Dance with a Stranger as Maryanne
1985Screen Two (1 Episode) as Sophie
1984Angels in the Annexe as Jenny Bailey
1984Dog Ends as Vivienne
1982Our Winnie as Liz
1982Objects of Affection (1 Episode) as Liz
1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
1980Grown-Ups as Mandy
1980The Gentle Touch (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1977King Cinder (6 Episodes) as Nikki
1977A Bunch of Fives (14 Episodes) as Helen Wyatt
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Mandy
1971Barlow (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Vivienne
1960Coronation Street (2 Episodes) as Jill Mason
Production
2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ... Executive Producer
Writing
2019I Am... (1 Episode) ... Writer