Imelda Staunton Biography
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Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton
(born on January 9, 1956 in London) is an English actress of Irish
Catholic descent. Both of her parents hail from County Mayo, Ireland.
She is a three-time recipient of Britain's highest theatre honour, the
Olivier Award, for roles in A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), The Corn Is
Green (1985), and Into the Woods (1991). She began to receive
international attention in 1993 for her performance in the Kenneth
Branagh's production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
The same year she appeared on the small screen along side Richard Briers
and Adrian Edmondson in If You See God, Tell Him. On radio, she has
appeared as the title role in the detective drama series Julie Enfield
Investigates.
Staunton shared a Screen Actors Guild Award
for Best Performance by a Cast in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love. In 2004,
Staunton received the Best Actress honors at the European Film Awards,
the BAFTAs, and the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Vera
Drake, which also won Best Picture. For the same role, she received Best
Actress nominations for the 2005 Golden Globes and Academy Awards.
She is married to the English actor, Jim
Carter, and they have a daughter, Bessie.
Imelda publicly stated, while in the U.S.
for the Academy Awards telecast in 2004, that despite her religious
background she is pro-choice on abortion.
Staunton will portray power-hungry Dolores
Umbridge in 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.. She is
also largely assumed to have a cameo appearance as Umbridge in the 2008
film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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