Lesley Manville
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Grown-Ups (1980)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn
- A working class couple discovers the joys of living in a council flat in this early Mike Leigh drama for the BBC (part of the 'Play for Today'…
- Topsy-Turvy (1999)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Allan Corduner…
- Rewarding biopic of Gilbert & Sullivan's ('HMS Pinafore', 'Pirates of Penzance') creative partnership that yields not so much drama as fascinating,…
- All or Nothing (2002)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland
- Director Mike Leigh returns to (overly) familiar turf for this ensemble drama about dysfunctional, poverty–stricken lives of three families…
- Sparkle (2007)
- Dir. Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Feat. Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head…
- Easy–going Brit comedy about a ruthless young go–getter (Evans) whose career in public relations is turned upside down when the girl of…
- Cranford (TV Mini-series) (2007)
- Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Philip Glenister…
- Outstanding, atypical British costumer with Dame Judy and other bonneted Victorian women chewing the fat in 1840s Cheshire, England. Based on…
- A Christmas Carol (2009)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jim Carrey, Daryl Sabara, Gary Oldman…
- The sure hand of dir. Robert Zemeckis guides this lavish CGI–animated retelling of Dickens' classic about a Victorian–era miser taken on…
- Womb (2010)
- Dir. Benedek Fliegauf
Feat. Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville…
- Thoughtful drama in which a woman's overwhelming grief over her dead lover leads her to birth his clone. Languidly paced and loaded with Oedipal…
- Another Year (2010)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville…
- A happily married middle–aged couple attempt to fix up their cheery, if secretly depressed friend in this honest domestic drama, another winner…
- Spike Island (2012)
- Dir. Mat Whitecross
Feat. Elliot Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro, Jordan Murphy…
- A rising indie band travels to Spike Island, Cheshire, in May of 1990 to see The Stone Roses.
- Mayday (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Sophie Okonedo, Aidan Gillen, Lesley Manville
- Off–beat thriller set in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until…