Personal Info
Birth date
1960-04-03 (65 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known as
-Lesley Sharp
Biography
Lesley Sharp is an outstanding film and television actress who has been nominated for many prestigious awards, including BAFTA Best Supporting Actress (nominated) for 'The Full Monty', RTS Television Award for Best Actress (Winner) and Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress (Winner) for her drama series for 'Afterlife'.
Filmography
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.168
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.Doctor Who
7.553
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Angela and Friends
5
Overview:
Daily chat show, hosted by Angela Griffin, that combines topical debate with five lifestyle clubs: Diet and Health, Beauty, Books and Travel, Entertainment and Fashion.Who Do You Think You Are?
6.729
Overview:
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.Aqua Teen Hunger Force
7.56
Overview:
The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.Fate: The Winx Saga
8.007
Overview:
The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.Prime Suspect
7.753
Overview:
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.Starlings
7
Overview:
Starlings is a British comedy-drama written by Steve Edge and Matt King who also play the roles of Fergie and Uncle Loz. It is one of the few new television comedy series that has been commissioned and aired on Sky1.A Ghost Story for Christmas
7.583
Overview:
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.Red Eye
7.197
Overview:
London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.Moving On
7.1
Overview:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.Doctor Who Greatest Moments
7
Overview:
Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show, featuring exclusive interviews with key actors offering unique insights on the classic moments.Playing the Field
5.2
Overview:
The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team, the game and each other far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship.The Full Monty
7.333
Overview:
The Full Monty gang is back after 25 years, swapping their stage costumes for dognapping, racing pigeons, and one very unconventional hostage situation. Gaz might be older, but he's no wiser. And his best friend, Dave, refuses to get sucked into any more of his antics. But when tragedy strikes, the whole Monty gang must pull together for a common purpose: to honor an old friend.Living the Dream
7.583
Overview:
A British family, the Pembertons, decide it’s time to leave rainy England and move to the sunshine state of Florida. They've bought an RV Park with plans for a booming family-run business, but it soon turns out that they are not going to be living the dream they hoped.Cranford
8.122
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.The Diary of Anne Frank
7.307
Overview:
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.Capital
7.25
Overview:
Set on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring property prices: what was once the home of modest lower-middle class families, Pepys Road has been continuously gentrified into a street of multimillion pound houses. On one day, the people of this South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.Afterlife
7.379
Overview:
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.Paranoid
6.321
Overview:
The murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective".Daylight Robbery
10
Overview:
Daylight Robbery is a British television drama mini-series that aired on ITV from 9 September 1999 to 18 December 2000. Focusing on four Essex women struggling with personal and domestic problems, decide to turn to crime to make ends meet.Bob & Rose
6.3
Overview:
Bob Gossage is a thirtysomething teacher who has been gay all his life. Now, however, he quite unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with a woman, Rose Cooper. Various confusions and misunderstandings ensue, with Rose's heartbroken ex-boyfriend Andy, Bob's jealous colleague Holly, and his gay-rights campaigning mother Monica all getting caught up in the mix.Scott & Bailey
7.362
Overview:
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.Art That Made Us
5.5
Overview:
An alternative history of the British Isles, told through art. Looking at 1,500 years and eight dramatic turning points, acclaimed artists and thinkers encounter key historic art works from across the UK that have shaped the history of the British Isles and inspired their own work.Monkey Trousers
7
Overview:
Monkey Trousers was a short-lived comedy series on ITV in 2005, featuring Alistair McGowan, John Thomson, Ronni Ancona, Mackenzie Crook, Griff Rhys Jones, Neil Morrissey, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Marc Wootton and Steve Coogan. It was directed by David Kerr and produced by Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves' production company, Pett Productions. It succeeded The All Star Comedy Show, which was written by Reeves and Mortimer, and produced by Coogan. Sketches of the show included the moronic, yet fearless 'Croc Botherer', Roy the eerie, lonely toy-shopkeeper, Alistair the hopeless estate agent, who replies to every question with "I don't know", the swearing chef, and the 'Geordie Astronauts'. A DVD of the series was released on 4 July 2005.Before We Die
5.2
Overview:
Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation.Common As Muck
7.5
Overview:
Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their management staff. It ran for two series. The first series was screened in 1994 and the second in 1997. Both were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama.Heaven Made
NYR
Overview:
Behind the walls of three religious orders to meet Benedictine nuns and monks who devote themselves not just to prayer and work, but to keeping ancient crafting traditions alive.Great Expectations
NYR
Overview:
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.Acting
2024MH17: The Plane Crash That Shook The World as Narrator - (Voice)
2024Red Eye (6 Episodes) as Director General Delaney
2024Prime Suspect: Murder In Suburbia as Narrator
2023The Full Monty (8 Episodes) as Jean Horsefall
2023Frank Bough: National Treasure, National Disgrace as Narrator
2022Catherine Called Birdy as Morwenna
2022Art That Made Us (1 Episode) as Self - Actrice (Scott & Bailey)
2021Heaven Made (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2021Help as Gaynor
2021National Theatre Live: Paradise as Philoctetes
2021Before We Die (11 Episodes) as Hannah Laing
2021Fate: The Winx Saga (2 Episodes) as Rosalind
2020Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings as Narrator (voice)
2019Brighton as Doreen
2019Inside the Bank of England (2 Episodes) as Narrator (Voice)
2018Dusty and Me as Lil Springfield
2018Spoon Fed as Ellie
2017All That You Love Will Be Carried Away as Alice
2017Living the Dream (12 Episodes) as Jen Pemberton
2017Three Girls (3 Episodes) as DC Margaret Oliver
2016Paranoid (8 Episodes) as Lucy Cannonbury
2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2015Capital (3 Episodes) as Mary
2015Peekaboo as Emily
2014National Theatre Archive: A Taste of Honey as Helen
2012Married to the Moonies as Narrator
2012Starlings (16 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Shirley as Eliza Bassey
2011Scott & Bailey (33 Episodes) as DC Janet Scott
2011The Shadow Line (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Whistle and I'll Come to You as Hetty
2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Joan Hunter
2009Angela and Friends (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009Doctor Who Greatest Moments (1 Episode) as Self
2009Moving On (1 Episode) as Sylvie
2009Keep It In The Family (4 Episodes) as Unknown
2009The Diary of Anne Frank (5 Episodes) as Petronella Van Daan
2009In Passing as Fay Travers
2008Inkheart as Mortola
2008The Children (3 Episodes) as Anne
2007Cranford (2 Episodes) as Mrs Bell
2005Our Hidden Lives as Edie Rutherford
2005Afterlife (14 Episodes) as Alison Mundy
2005Monkey Trousers (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2005Born With Two Mothers as Laura Mayfield
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Sky Silvestry
2005Planespotting as Lesley Coppin
2004Vera Drake as Jessie Barnes
2004Who Do You Think You Are? (1 Episode) as Self
2004Carrie's War as Louisa Evans, aka 'Aunty Lou'
2003Carla as Helen North
2003Cheeky as Kath
2003The Second Coming as Judith Roach
2003The Second Coming (2 Episodes) as Judith Roach
2003Paul Gascoigne "Gazza" in China as Self - Narrator
2001Bob & Rose (6 Episodes) as Rose Cooper
2001From Hell as Kate Eddowes
2000Aqua Teen Hunger Force (1 Episode) as Glorfinoid (voice)
2000Nature Boy (4 Episodes) as Martha
2000Clocking Off (27 Episodes) as Trudy Graham
1999Daylight Robbery (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1999Great Expectations as Mrs. Joe
1999Great Expectations (2 Episodes) as Mrs Joe
1998Playing the Field (32 Episodes) as Theresa Mullen
1997The Full Monty as Jean Horsefall
1996The Moonstone as Rosanna Spearman
1995Priest as Mrs. Unsworth
1994Dandelion Dead (4 Episodes) as Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies
1994Common As Muck (6 Episodes) as Christine Stranks
1994Speaking In Tongues as Susan
1994Syrup as Ms. James
1993Naked as Louise
1993Frank Stubbs Promotes (13 Episodes) as Petra Dillon
1993Nights (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1991Close My Eyes as Jessica
1991Top Girls as Dull Gret / Angie
1991Performance (1 Episode) as Angie
1991Prime Suspect (1 Episode) as Anne Sutherland
1990Wedded as Woman
1990Night Voice as Marion Parkin
1989The Rachel Papers as Jenny
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 Episode) as Miss Martindale
1988This Morning (1 Episode) as Self
1988The Love Child as Bernadette
1987Road as Valerie
1987Rita, Sue and Bob Too as Michelle
1971A Ghost Story for Christmas (1 Episode) as Hetty