Lesley Sharp was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1997 film The Full Monty.
17 Facts About Lesley Sharp
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Lesley Sharp's adoptive father, Jack, was a tax inspector, and she grew up in Merseyside.
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Lesley Sharp has stated that she started acting because, as a child, she felt "invisible" and did not "quite fit in".
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Lesley Sharp attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the class of 1982.
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Lesley Sharp appeared in another Clarke-directed project, as Valerie in the filmed version of Jim Cartwright's successful stageplay Road.
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Lesley Sharp was establishing herself as a talented actress and social realist roles in Mike Leigh's Naked and the Jimmy McGovern-penned Priest further raised her profile.
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Lesley Sharp had supporting parts in Great Expectations, as Mrs Joe, and in Nature Boy, as Martha Tyler, before landing the role of Trudy Graham in Paul Abbott's BAFTA-award-winning Clocking Off, which lasted four series.
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Lesley Sharp again worked with Mike Leigh in Vera Drake which was followed by one-off television dramas including Planespotting, Born with Two Mothers and Our Hidden Lives, all in 2005.
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Lesley Sharp's performance was highly praised and she was nominated for several awards.
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Lesley Sharp concentrated on theatrical work for the next few years, until re-appearing on television screens in 2008 in the three-part Lucy Gannon-penned drama The Children.
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Davies later tipped Lesley Sharp to become the first woman to play the Doctor.
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In early 2009 Lesley Sharp played Petronella van Daan in the BBC's new version of The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Lesley Sharp subsequently played Paddy Considine's wife in Channel 4's acclaimed drama series Red Riding.
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Lesley Sharp starred in a 2009 revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Vaudeville Theatre with Marc Warren and Diana Vickers, which ran from October to the following January.
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In 2015, Lesley Sharp played the part of Mary, the daughter of Petunia Howe, in the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.
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Lesley Sharp appeared in several episodes of the Netflix original Fate: The Winx Saga as Rosalind but was replaced in this role with Miranda Richardson after the first season.
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In October 2005, Lesley Sharp starred in her first theatre role for a decade in the play The God of Hell at the Donmar Warehouse, London.