Lesley Manville
Acting
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).
Known for
2026Cold Storage
Trini Romano
2026Midwinter Break
Stella
2026Winter of the Crow
Joan Andrews
2026National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marquise de Merteuil
2025Mr. Burton
Ma Smith
2024Back to Black
Cynthia
2024Queer
Doctor Cotter
2024The Critic
Annabel Land
2022Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
The Mother
2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ada Harris
2020Misbehaviour
Dolores Hope
2020Let Him Go
Blanche Weboy
2019Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Flittle
2019Ordinary Love
Joan
2018National Theatre Live: LOVE
Herself/Introduced By
2017A Very British Brothel 2
Narrator (Voice)
2017Phantom Thread
Cyril Woodcock
2017Hampstead
Fiona
2017The Agency
Anthea
2016Rupture
Dr. Nyman
2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2015The Go-Between
Mrs. Maudsley
2015Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Miss Adderstone
2015A Very British Brothel
Herself - Narrator (voice)