Celia Diana Savile Imrie was born on 15 July 1952 and is an English actress and author.
15 Facts About Celia Imrie
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Celia Imrie is best known for her film roles, including the Bridget Jones film series, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The English dub of The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales.
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Celia Imrie is the ten-times-great granddaughter of the infamous Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset.
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Celia Imrie was educated at Guildford High School, an independent school for girls in her home town of Guildford, followed by the Guildford School of Acting.
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Celia Imrie appeared in the 2005 BBC television drama Mr Harvey Lights a Candle, where she played the role of a teacher taking an unruly party of pupils on a day-trip to Salisbury Cathedral.
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Celia Imrie starred alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst in the BBC sitcom After You've Gone, and in the ITV1 drama Kingdom with Stephen Fry.
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In December 2021, Celia Imrie narrated the BBC's Talking Pictures: Film's Family Favourites.
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Celia Imrie narrated during the ceremonial event held to mark the 75th anniversary of D-day at Portsmouth in 2019.
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Celia Imrie appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in October 2019.
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Celia Imrie's hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A half-burnt candle".
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Celia Imrie is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for her frequent collaborations with Victoria Wood, with whom she appeared in TV programmes such as the sitcom dinnerladies and sketch show Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.
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Celia Imrie won an Olivier Award in 2006 for her performance.
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Celia Imrie has a son, Angus Imrie, with the actor Benjamin Whitrow, but has said that she "hated the idea of marriage", describing it as a "world of cover-up and compromise".
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Celia Imrie was the guest on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 on 13 February 2011.
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Celia Imrie's great-great uncle, William Celia Imrie, was a founder of the White Star Line and she is a descendant of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon who survived the sinking of the Titanic.