1. Lesley Ann Manville was born on 12 March 1956 and is an English actress.
29 Facts About Lesley Manville
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Lesley Manville has received various accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards and nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Lesley Manville has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Another Year and Phantom Thread, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the latter.
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On television, Manville has appeared in Emmerdale, Cranford, and Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond.
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Lesley Manville was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the daughter of Norma, 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.
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Lesley Manville paid for her first flat by landing a part in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm, in which she appeared in 80 episodes.
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Lesley Manville built a career as a distinctive theatre actress; from 1978 she appeared in new plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Warehouse and Royal Court Theatre.
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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 the US in 1983.
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Lesley Manville made her film debut in 1985 with Dance with a Stranger, directed by Mike Newell, and telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
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Lesley Manville appeared 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 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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In 2017, Lesley Manville played Lydia Quigley, the ruthless madam of a posh brothel with clients from the judiciary, nobility, and upper echelons of Georgian society, in the BBC series Harlots.
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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.