Lesley Manville
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.8198 |
| Birthday | 1956-03-12 |
| Place of Birth | Brighton, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Lesley Ann Manville, |
2024
Back to Black
6.667/750
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Bl...
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Back to Black
1996
Secrets & Lies
7.6/751
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cyn...
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Secrets & Lies
2004
Vera Drake
7.178/424
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Vera Drake
2022
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
1.7/3
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes. A collection of short films,...
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Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2002
All or Nothing
7.067/180
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children,...
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All or Nothing
1985
Dance with a Stranger
6.1/56
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da...
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Dance with a Stranger
1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
5.739/23
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intelle...
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
2026
Cold Storage
6.759/767
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wilde...
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Cold Storage
2007
Sparkle
5.706/17
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her es...
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Sparkle
1999
Milk
4/3
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies...
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Milk
2010
Another Year
7/452
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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Another Year
2005
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
5.065/31
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unab...
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
1999
Topsy-Turvy
6.593/167
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater...
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Topsy-Turvy
1989
High Hopes
7/102
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbour...
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High Hopes
2024
Queer
6.538/567
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arriv...
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Queer
2009
A Christmas Carol
6.91/4983
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
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A Christmas Carol
1989
The Firm
6.545/89
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The Firm
2026
Midwinter Break
7.2/27
Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time an...
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Midwinter Break
2013
Romeo & Juliet
6.71/590
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation t...
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Romeo & Juliet
2010
Womb
6.099/421
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her...
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Womb
2014
Maleficent
7.09/13929
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...
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Maleficent
1987
High Season
5.143/14
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commiss...
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High Season
2012
Spike Island
6.313/80
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
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Spike Island
2013
A Five Star Life
5.739/138
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensi...
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A Five Star Life
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
7.695/221
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass...
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An Adventure in Space and Time
1991
Top Girls
0/0
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
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Top Girls
2013
The Christmas Candle
5.867/45
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlem...
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The Christmas Candle
2024
The Critic
5.806/116
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor...
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The Critic
2014
Mr. Turner
6.541/597
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
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Mr. Turner
2014
Ghosts
3/1
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a mem...
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Ghosts
1984
Angels in the Annexe
0/0
Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the nat...
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Angels in the Annexe
2012
Ashes
5.1/15
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospita...
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Ashes
1997
Dual Balls
0/0
A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend.
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Dual Balls
2026
Winter of the Crow
6/2
Warsaw, December 13, 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens a...
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Winter of the Crow
2025
Mr. Burton
6.814/35
In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devasta...
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Mr. Burton
2016
Rupture
4.918/297
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
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Rupture
1980
Grown-Ups
6.9/13
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next...
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Grown-Ups
2015
The Go-Between
6.818/33
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
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The Go-Between
2015
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
5.287/94
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
2015
A Very British Brothel
3.25/4
A look at the daily life of an English brothel.
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A Very British Brothel
2006
Perfect Parents
4.6/5
After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one t...
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Perfect Parents
2017
A Very British Brothel 2
6/1
This follow-up film returns to Sheffield's City Sauna. The certified massage parlour run by a mum and daughter team, which specialises in mature and l...
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A Very British Brothel 2
1985
The Moon Over Soho
0/0
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
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The Moon Over Soho
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
8/1
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
2003
Promoted to Glory
7/1
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
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Promoted to Glory
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
9/1
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a...
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
2017
Phantom Thread
7.3/3863
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
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Phantom Thread
2017
Hampstead
6.059/222
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse,...
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Hampstead
1984
Dog Ends
0/0
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighb...
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Dog Ends
1985
Christmas Present
6/2
A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor fami...
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Christmas Present
2018
To Provide All People
8/2
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birt...
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To Provide All People
2018
National Theatre Live: LOVE
5.4/8
In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of...
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National Theatre Live: LOVE
2020
Misbehaviour
6.368/307
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World...
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Misbehaviour
2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
7.293/6607
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
Ordinary Love
6.835/161
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
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Ordinary Love
2017
The Agency
10/1
Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female empower...
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The Agency
2020
Let Him Go
6.825/853
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a danger...
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Let Him Go
2002
Plain Jane
9/1
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
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Plain Jane
2001
David Copperfield
6.271/24
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...
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David Copperfield
1993
A Statement of Affairs
10/1
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the...
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A Statement of Affairs
1994
O Mary This London
8/1
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adve...
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O Mary This London
1999
Toy Boys
10/1
Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.
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Toy Boys
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
7.298/527
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
1992
Bad Girl
10/1
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
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Bad Girl
1982
Our Winnie
0/0
Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is burie...
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Our Winnie
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
0/0
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Jack of Spades
0/0
Esther, a compassionate woman in her thirties, has spent years caring for her elderly cousin on a bleak country estate. Esther's quiet life is disrupt...
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Jack of Spades
2026
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
0/0
A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep ca...
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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Untitled 13
0/0
Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'
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