Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Hello, Dolly! (2025).
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Imelda Staunton
Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various stage productions in the West End and across the UK. Throughout her career, she has received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award, and five Laurence Olivier Awards as…
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entertainment · English actress and singer (born 1956) · stage actor · film actor · actor · musician · also Imelda Staunton, Staunton
Born 9 January 1956 · Q234798
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2025· 2 entries
Staunton and her daughter Bessie Carter co-starred in a production of Mrs
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2017· 1 entry
As Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2016).
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2014· 4 entries
Collaborated with her husband, Jim Carter, and Show of Hands on Centenary: Words and Music of the Great War, an album of songs and poetry from and inspired by World War I
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Released album “Centenary Words & Music of the Great War”.
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Staunton's dog, Molly, appeared as Chowsie the dog in Gypsy at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 6 October to 8 November
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Co-starred in Maleficent as well as the British comedy-drama Pride
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Portrayed Alma Reville, the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, in the HBO television movie The Girl, which also starred Toby Jones and Sienna Miller
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Voiced Queen Victoria in the Aardman film The Pirates
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2011· 2 entries
Played Grace Andrews in the second series of Psychoville
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Was the Voice of the Interface in the highly-acclaimed and Hugo Award-nominated episode of Doctor Who, "The Girl Who Waited"
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2007· 2 entries
And secondly in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance in 2011
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Appeared in the BBC series Cranford, with Carter as Captain Brown and Bessie as a maid
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Vera Drake (2005).
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2004· 7 entries
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for Vera Drake (2004).
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Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Vera Drake (2004).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Shakespeare in Love (1999).
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1993· 1 entry
Appeared on television alongside Richard Briers and Adrian Edmondson in If You See God, Tell Him
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1991).
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role (1985).
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Staunton won her first Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her work in both The Corn Is Green at The Old Vic and A Chorus of Disapproval at the National Theatre
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1982· 1 entry
In which she met her husband Jim Carter and the second in 1996 in which she played Miss Adelaide and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
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1976· 3 entries
Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1976).
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And appeared in various stage productions in the West End and across the UK
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Then spent six years in British repertory theatre, including a period at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, where she had the title role in Shaw's Saint Joan (1979)
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-01-09.
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