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Lesley Manville is an English actress celebrated across film, television and the stage. She earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017), along with a BAFTA nomination for the same role. A longtime collaborator of director Mike Leigh, she has appeared in eight of his films, among them Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010) and Mr. Turner (2014). She took the title role in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022), which brought a Golden Globe nomination, and her other films include Maleficent (2014), Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), Misbehaviour (2020), The Critic (2023) and Queer (2024). On television she played Princess Margaret in The Crown, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination, and drew BAFTA TV nominations for River, Mum and Sherwood. On stage she has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress twice, for Ghosts (2014) and Oedipus (2025), and then won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play when she brought Oedipus to Broadway in 2026. She was appointed OBE in 2015 and CBE in 2021.
- Active since 1974
- Born in Brighton
- Honors: British honours (OBE/MBE)
- Category: Actor
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Milestones
- Named London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
- Received the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
- Received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
- Starred in Mr. Turner as Mary Somerville
- Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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