Imelda Staunton

Only once did he make a splash with a leading role. And it is that I cannot be more convincing in the role of Vera Drake, the protagonist of The Secret of Vera Drake . Although the Mike Leigh filmWhile dealing with the awful subject of abortion in a very sad and ambiguous approach, the truth is that Imelda Stanton nailed her role as few actresses would have done. Her physique accompanied the work (1.52 tall and robust complexion), because there is in Imelda an I don’t know what that reminds of the “tatas” of yesteryear and suggests the confidence of an endearing domestic help. That’s why her role as her clandestine abortionist was so alarming and terrible. For her work, Imelda achieved several well-deserved awards, including the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival, and two Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

Born in London on January 9, 1956, Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is of Irish descent, as her parents are from the so-called County of Mayo, a famous location on the Irish Atlantic coast, famous for its cliffs. She studied at a north London convent-school called La Sainte Union Convent. And it is there where she made herself notice her interpretative vein, since at the age of fourteen she already sang in the musical production “The Beggar’s Opera”. After finishing college, she began her career in the theater, an area to which she has always been linked ever since. There is more than enough evidence of her good work on stage, including two Laurence Olivier Theater Awards, the first as a secondary in “A Chorus of Disapproval” and “The Corn is Green”, and the second as best actress in the musical ” Into the Woods”. And it has also been awarded the London Theater Critics Award. In 1983, when she was 27 years old, she married the actorJim Carter , and ten years later their daughter Bessie was born.

He began his film career with small appearances in television series, such as the notable “The Singing Detective” (1986) or “Thompson” (1988), or in dispensable small jobs in television films The Heat of The Day (1989), The Englishman’s Wife ( 1990) or A Masculine Ending (1992). His first successful film was Peter’s Friends (1992), where his wonderful singing voice could be heard, and the following year he repeated with Kenneth Branagh in the fabulous Much Ado About Nothing , where Imelda’s face is already made familiar. Two years later she had a prominent role in Deadly Tips , opposite Brenda Fricker ., and in 1995 I make good use of a little work in Sense and Sensibility . Her fondness for William Shakespeare was once again noted in her appearances in the remarkable Twelfth Night (1996) or in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love (1998). She later worked on the excellent TV movie David Copperfield (1999) . After that, the actress entered a darker era, with roles in bland films, until The Secret of Vera Drake arrived in 2004 and catapulted her to fame.

He later worked on the funny Little Britain series (2005) and on the TV movie My Family and Other Animals (2005), based on the famous book by Gerald Durrell . By then the fame of the actress had grown so much that she was decorated as an officer of the Order of the British Empire, a distinction reserved for very few personalities. Lately, Imelda has stood out with the malevolent role of Dolores Umbridge, a character in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and that she will repeat in the latest installment of the magical saga. She recently premiered the friendly comedy The Greatness of Living (2007) and is preparing the latest project by director Mike Leigh, Another Year .