Lesley Manville has been nominated for two British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Another Year and Phantom Thread, with her performance in the latter earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
25 Facts About Lesley Manville
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Lesley Manville has been nominated for three British Academy Television Awards for the lattermost.
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Lesley Manville portrays Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in the final two seasons of the television series The Crown.
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Lesley Manville was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the daughter of Jean, a former ballet dancer, and Ron Lesley Manville, a taxi driver.
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Lesley Manville was brought up in nearby Hove, the youngest of three daughters.
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Lesley Manville began acting as a teenager, appearing in television series such as King Cinder.
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Lesley Manville made her professional stage debut in the 1972 West End musical I and Albert directed by John Schlesinger and paid for her first flat by taking a part in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm, appearing in 80 episodes.
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Lesley Manville built a career as a distinctive theatre actress, appearing in new plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Warehouse and Royal Court Theatre from 1978.
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Lesley Manville met Mike Leigh in 1979, when he was looking for RSC actors who could improvise.
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Lesley Manville starred in the Top Girls Off-Broadway production in 1983.
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Lesley Manville made her film debut in 1985s Dance with a Stranger directed by Mike Newell, and went on to appear in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid directed by Stephen Frears, and High Season.
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In 1994, Lesley Manville starred in the first series of the BBC sitcom Ain't Misbehavin'.
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Lesley Manville starred in Cards on the Table, a 2006 feature-length episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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Since 2005, Lesley Manville has starred in several National Theatre productions, including His Dark Materials, The Alchemist and Her Naked Skin.
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Lesley Manville starred in The Old Vic productions of All About My Mother and Six Degrees of Separation.
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Lesley Manville won Best Supporting Actress from the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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In 2011, Lesley Manville starred in Mike Leigh's play Grief at the National Theatre which earned her a Best Actress Olivier Award nomination.
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Lesley Manville appeared in the films Romeo and Juliet and Maleficent.
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Lesley Manville then starred opposite Peter Mullan in the BBC sitcom Mum, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2017 and 2019.
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Lesley Manville was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.
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In 2022, Lesley Manville starred in the Anthony Horowitz murder mystery series, Magpie Murders, alongside Daniel Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Jude Hill, and Claire Rushbrook.
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Lesley Manville played the role of the titular character in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
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In January 2023, it was announced that Lesley Manville was added to the cast of the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and would be playing Winehouse's grandmother Cynthia Winehouse.
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In 2007, Lesley Manville was living with her son in East Grinstead, West Sussex.
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Lesley Manville was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to drama, and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.