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Gist:  Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE, (born 9 January 1956) is an Academy Award nominated English actress best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera Drake. For the latter, she drew widespread critical acclaim as Vera Drake, earning a number of awards including the Bafta and Venice Film Festival Awards for best actress in a leading role.

Life Facts:  Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the daughter of Bridie (née McNicholas), a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a road-worker and labourer. She attended La Sainte Union Convent School, an all-girls Catholic school on the edge of Hampstead Heath, from years 7 to 11.




In 1993 she appeared on television alongside Richard Briers and Adrian Edmondson in If You See God, Tell Him. She has had other television parts in The Singing Detective (1986) and the comedy drama series Is it Legal? (1995-8). She was a voice artist on Mole's Christmas (1994). She had a guest role playing Mrs. Mead in Little Britain in 2005, and in 2007 played the free-thinking gossip, Miss Pole, in Cranford, the five-part BBC series based on Mrs Gaskell's novels.

On radio, she has appeared in the title role of detective drama series Julie Enfield Investigates, as the lead, Izzy Comyn, in the comedy Up the Garden Path (which later moved to ITV with Staunton reprising the role), in Diary of a Provincial Lady (from 1999) and Acropolis Now.

She also supplies the voices of two characters in the Childrens TV show "Big and Small"

*The Singing Detective (tv miniseries) (1986)

*Ladies In Charge (tv series,one episode) (1986)

*Comrades (1987)

*Thompson (1988)

*A Sleeping Life (1989)

*Yellowbacks (TV) (1990)

*Up The Garden Path (TV series) (1990-1993)

*They Never Slept (1990)

*The Englishman's Wife (TV) (1990)

*Antonia And Jane (1991)

*Peter's Friends (1992)

*A Masculine Ending (TV) (1992)

*Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

*Don't Leave Me This Way (TV) (1993)

*If You See God,Tell Him (TV series) (1993)

*Deadly Advice (1993)

*Woodcock (TV) (1994)

*Frank Stubbs Promotes (TV series,one episode) (1994)

*Mole's Christmas (TV) (1994)

*Citizen X (TV) (1995)

*Look At The State We're In! (TV series,one episode) (1995)

*Is It Legal? (TV series) (1995)

*A Bit Of Fry And Laurie (TV series) (1995)

*Sense and Sensibility (1995)

*The Adventures of Mole (TV) (1995)

*Twelfth Night (1996)

*Tales From The Crypt (TV series,one episode) (1996)

*The Snow Queen's Revenge (1996) (voice)

*Remember Me? (1997)

*The Ugly Duckling (1997) (voice)

*Shakespeare In Love (1998)

*The Canterbury Tales (TV) (1998) (voice)

*Midsomer Murders (TV series,one episode) (1999)

*David Copperfield (TV) (1999)

*Chicken Run (2000) (voice)

*Rat (2000)

*Jack And The Beanstalk (2000) (voice)

*Victora Wood With All The Trimming(2000) (TV)

*Another Life (2001)

*Crush (2001)

*Murder (TV minseries) (2002)

*Ready (short) (2002)

*Campbrige Spies (TV miniseries) (2003)

*Let's Write A Story(TV) (short) (2003)

*The Virgin Of Liverpool (2003)

*Strange (Tv series,one episode) (2003)

*Bright Young Things (2003)

*Blackball (2003)

*I'll Be There (2003)

*Vera Drake (2004)

*Nanny McPhee (2005)

*Fingersmith (TV) (2005)

*3x3 (2005)

*A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV) (2005)

*Little Britain (TV series,one episode)

*My Family And Other Animals (TV) (2006)

*Shadow Man (2006)

*The Wind in the Willows (TV) (2006)

*The Cranford Chronicles (2007) (TV series)

*Freedom Writers (2007)

*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

*How About You (2007)

*Three and Out (2008)

*A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)

*Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009) (voice)

*Taking Woodstock (2009)

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010)

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)