Lesley Manville
Birthday: 1956-03-12
Place of Birth: Brighton, England, UK
Biography: Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).
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Back to Black
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through ...
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Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...
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Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
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Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t mak...
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All or Nothing
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Dance with a Stranger
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of ...
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Cold Storage
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Sparkle
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Milk
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy fa...
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Another Year
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less h...
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The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violenc...
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Topsy-Turvy
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in...
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High Hopes
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's a...
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Queer
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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The Firm
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised ga...
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Midwinter Break
A stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple tak...
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Romeo & Juliet
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Womb
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manho...
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Maleficent
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable fore...
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High Season
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A you...
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Spike Island
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance b...
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A Five Star Life
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector...
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An Adventure in Space and Time
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity ...
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Top Girls
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The Christmas Candle
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it ...
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The Critic
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes an...
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Mr. Turner
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Ghosts
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...
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Angels in the Annexe
Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfo...
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Ashes
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Dual Balls
A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend....
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Winter of the Crow
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Mr. Burton
In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between...
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Rupture
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her....
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Grown-Ups
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The Go-Between
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wr...
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form....
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Perfect Parents
After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to fi...
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A Very British Brothel 2
This follow-up film returns to Sheffield's City Sauna. The certified massage parlour run by a mum an...
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The Moon Over Soho
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his...
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Par...
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Promoted to Glory
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him....
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Phantom Thread
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his rel...
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Hampstead
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead ...
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Dog Ends
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding a...
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Christmas Present
A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should ...
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To Provide All People
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journ...
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LOVE
In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day ...
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Misbehaviour
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and ...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as th...
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Ordinary Love
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer ...
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The Agency
Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a mode...
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Let Him Go
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue ...
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Plain Jane
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane....
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David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...
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A Statement of Affairs
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when...
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O Mary This London
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides...
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Bad Girl
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent....
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Our Winnie
Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They...
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and pr...
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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new st...
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