Lesley Manville
Acting
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).
As actor 143
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Coronation Street
1960
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
2025
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Newsnight
1980
The Crown
2016
Silent Witness
1996
Play for Today
1970
Loose Women
1999
Screen Two
1985
Playhouse
1974
The South Bank Show
1978
Citadel
2023
Performance
1991
Disclaimer
2024
Law & Order: UK
2009
ScreenPlay
1986
Soldier Soldier
1991
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
Grotesquerie
2024
Maleficent
2014
Cold Storage
2026
A Christmas Carol
2009
Love Life
2020
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Phantom Thread
2017
Harlots
2017
Marble Hall Murders
2026
The Gentle Touch
1980
Sherwood
2022
Softly Softly: Task Force
1969
Magpie Murders
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
Moonflower Murders
2024
Rose and Maloney
2002
Cranford
2007
North & South
2004
Queer
2024
Let Him Go
2020
Back to Black
2024
River
2015
Dangerous Liaisons
2022
Save Me
2018
World on Fire
2019
I Am...
2019
Mum
2016
Romeo & Juliet
2013
Midwinter Break
2026
Barlow
1971
Mr. Turner
2014
Misbehaviour
2020
The Queen
2009
Secrets & Lies
1996
David Copperfield
2000
Bulman
1985
Fleming
2014
Vera Drake
2004
Life After Life
2022
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
The Cazalets
2001
Ordinary Love
2019
Another Year
2010
Wings
1977
Womb
2010
All or Nothing
2002
Sharing Time
1984
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
The Critic
2024
Topsy-Turvy
1999
Other People's Children
2000
A Bunch of Fives
1977
Objects of Affection
1982
Rupture
2016
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
2015
Mayday
2013
Little Napoleons
1994
Ain't Misbehavin'
1994
The Firm
1989
Holding On
1997
Winter of the Crow
2026
Dance with a Stranger
1985
Black Cab
2000
Village Hall
1974
Painted Lady
1997
Bodily Harm
2002
Mr. Burton
2025
King Cinder
1977
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Hampstead
2017
Give us a Break
1983
To Provide All People
2018
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Spike Island
2012
Tears Before Bedtime
1995
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2026
High Season
1987
The Mushroom Picker
1993
High Hopes
1989
Goggle Eyes
1993
Real Women
1998
Crime Story
1992
The Go-Between
2015
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022
Bad Girl
1992
Our Winnie
1982
National Theatre Live: LOVE
2018
David Copperfield
2001
The Christmas Candle
2013
Top Girls
1991
The Bite
1996
Angels in the Annexe
1984
A Five Star Life
2013
Ashes
2012
O Mary This London
1994
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
Promoted to Glory
2003
The Emigrants
1976
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
2005
General Hospital
1972
A Very British Brothel
2015
Jack of Spades
Escorted
Perfect Parents
2006
Grown-Ups
1980
The Moon Over Soho
1985
Plain Jane
2002
Leap in the Dark
1973
A Statement of Affairs
1993
A Skirt Through History
1994
Milk
1999
A Very British Brothel 2
2017
Sparkle
2007
The Agency
2017
Toy Boys
1999
Ghosts
2014
Dog Ends
1984
Christmas Present
1985
Untitled 13
Dual Balls
1997