Imelda Staunton

biography:
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born January 9, 1956) is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom.

Staunton has performed in a variety of plays and musicals in London throughout her career, winning four Laurence Olivier Awards; three for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her roles in the musicals Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Gypsy, and one for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play for her work in both A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is Green. Her other stage appearances include The Beggar's Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Entertaining Mr Sloane, and Good People. She has been nominated for 13 Olivier Awards.

On film, Staunton starred in Antonia and Jane; in several supporting roles in Kenneth Branagh's comedy Peter's Friends, his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing; Ang Lee's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility; and the costume romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love. She drew critical acclaim for her performance in the title role in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actress, in addition to being nominated for Best Actress by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She later gained a wider audience for her portrayal as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1. She continued supporting roles in Nanny McPhee, reunited with Leigh in Another Year, and the film continuation of Downton Abbey. She portrayed human rights activist Hefina Headon in the historical film Pride, and starred in the British comedy Finding Your Feet. She also provided voice acting roles for the films Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas, and Paddington.

On television, Staunton starred in the sitcoms Up the Garden Path and Is it Legal?. Her performance in My Family and Other Animals earned her a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress, while her roles in Return to Cranford and The Girl earned her BAFTA TV Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. For the latter, she was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the final two seasons of The Crown.

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Christine Cooper

original_name: Midsomer Murders

Is It Legal?

overview: Is It Legal? is a British television sitcom set in a solicitors office in Hounslow, west London, which ran from 1995 to 1998. It was produced by Hartswood Films and was shown on ITV for Series 1-2 and Channel 4 for Series 3. It was written by Simon Nye, who also wrote other ITV sitcoms such as Men Behaving Badly and Hardware.

original_name: Is It Legal?

Tales from the Crypt

overview: Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

character: Sarah

original_name: Tales from the Crypt

Performance

overview: An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

character: Jenny Beales

original_name: Performance

Strange

overview: The world of John Strange is no ordinary place - full of malevolent demons that must be stopped from wreaking havoc upon the Earth. In his quest he is joined by nurse Jude Atkins, computer whiz Toby and Kevin, a man who can pick up on strange vibes. But the mysterious Canon Black remains a thorn in John's side, fervent in his efforts to prove the non-existence of anything remotely demonic or paranormal...

character: Reverend Mary Truegood

original_name: Strange

Live! Girls! Present Dogtown

overview:
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown is a comedy series shown on BBC Three.

It tells the story of life for the residents of Horton-le-Hole, a fictional coastal town where things are not all they seem. A controlling optician meets a mild librarian to enact secret fantasies as Oscar-winning movie stars and Olympic champions; a socially inept teacher dreams of becoming a deputy head; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic has set up a business in a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are systematically and mysteriously vandalised, one of the greatest love affairs the world has ever known begins to stir in the library.

original_name: Live! Girls! Present Dogtown

If You See God, Tell Him

overview: Following a freak accident, Godfrey Spry develops a 30-second attention span, causing him to take ad slogans literally and leading to chaotic behaviour.

character: Muriel Spry

original_name: If You See God, Tell Him

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

overview: The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

character: Polly Flinders

original_name: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

ShakespeaRe-Told

overview: Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.

original_name: ShakespeaRe-Told

Fingersmith

overview: A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a gentleman to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.

character: Mrs. Sucksby

original_name: Fingersmith

Cranford

overview: A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

character: Miss Pole

original_name: Cranford

Natural World

overview:
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983.

Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

character: Narrator

original_name: Natural World

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

Thompson

overview: Thompson is a 1988 British TV variety series hosted by actress Emma Thompson the show also starred Imelda Staunton, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Moore. The show featured musical numbers, as well as comedy skits and…

original_name: Thompson

The Michael Ball Show

overview: The Michael Ball Show was a British topical entertainment show broadcast on ITV in 2010. It featured entertainment, discussion and showbiz glamour with the occasional musical performance from Michael himself, often on the Friday edition of the show. It occupied the slot filled by The Alan Titchmarsh Show during its summer break in 2010.

original_name: The Michael Ball Show

Doctor Who

overview: The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

character: Interface (voice)

original_name: Doctor Who

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

overview: A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

original_name: A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Up the Garden Path

original_name: Up the Garden Path

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

overview:
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios.

Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.

original_name: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Lily's Driftwood Bay

overview: Follow the imagination of Lily, a five-year-old hunter, as she creates a world of adventure and friendship from treasures she finds washed up on the beach.

character: Rowena Rabbit (voice)

original_name: Lily's Driftwood Bay

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

overview: Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.

character: Irene Ruddock

original_name: Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Frank Stubbs Promotes

overview:
Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas.

He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers.

In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.

character: Susan

original_name: Frank Stubbs Promotes

Trying

overview: All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

character: Penny

original_name: Trying

The Graham Norton Show

overview: Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

original_name: The Graham Norton Show

Cambridge Spies

overview: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.

character: The Queen

original_name: Cambridge Spies

David Copperfield

overview: A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

character: Mrs. Micawber

original_name: David Copperfield

Murder

overview: Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.

character: DCI Billie Dory

original_name: Murder

A Confession

overview: The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.

character: Karen Edwards

original_name: A Confession

Flesh and Blood

overview: Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother, Vivien, declares she is in love with a new man. The tension his presence creates threatens to drag the whole family towards tragedy, and perhaps crime.

character: Mary Bennett

original_name: Flesh and Blood

Little Britain

overview: A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.

character: Mrs. Mead

original_name: Little Britain

The Crown

overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.

The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

character: Queen Elizabeth II

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

character: The Producer

original_name: Screen Two

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

character: Self - Nominee

original_name: Golden Globe Awards

The One Show

overview: A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

original_name: The One Show

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

overview: The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.

Playhouse

overview: A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

The Story of Musicals

overview: A three-part series exploring how the British musical became a driving force behind musical theatre around the world — a tale of shows, daring, rivalries, talent and fortunes are set in just a single square mile.

The Singing Detective

overview: Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Look at the State We're In!

overview: A satirical comedy-drama exploring the absurdities of modern life, politics, and society through a series of sketches and parodies.

Big & Small

overview: Big & Small is a British children's television series aimed at preschoolers. Big & Small is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and 3J's Productions produced in association with the BBC, Treehouse TV, and Studio 100. The first series was deemed a success worldwide and a second series was commissioned by the BBC. The show is a live action comedy for preschoolers, and follows the lives of puppets. Big & Small Online, a section of CBeebies Online, won a Children's BAFTA in 2009 for the best interactive content.

Ladies in Charge

overview:
Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift.

After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.

Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War

overview: Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War takes black-and-white films from the era and colourises the footage, bringing the past vividly back to life.

Psychoville

overview: Five strangers receive blackmail notes from an anonymous source, leading them on a dark and surreal journey as their lives unravel, featuring bizarre characters like a man-child, a one-handed clown, and a blind millionaire.

ScreenPlay

overview:
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993.

Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

The Play on One

overview: A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

Deutsch

Imelda Staunton

biography:
Imelda Staunton, geboren am 9. Januar 1956 in London, ist eine renommierte britische Schauspielerin und Sängerin.

Sie begann ihre Karriere im Repertoiretheater und hat sich sowohl auf der Bühne als auch im Film und Fernsehen einen Namen gemacht. Staunton ist besonders bekannt für ihre Rolle als Dolores Umbridge in den “Harry Potter”-Filmen.

Sie hat zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter vier Laurence Olivier Awards.

普通话

艾美达·斯丹顿

biography:
英国女演员和歌手。在皇家戏剧艺术学院接受培训后，斯汤顿于1976年开始了她的话剧生涯，并出现在英国的各种戏剧作品中。

斯汤顿在她的职业生涯中曾在伦敦演出过各种戏剧和音乐剧，赢得了四项劳伦斯·奥利弗奖;三项音乐剧最佳女主角奖，以表彰她在音乐剧《走进森林》、《斯威尼·托德》和《吉普赛人》中的角色，以及一项最佳戏剧配角奖，以表彰她在《不赞成的合唱团》和《玉米是绿色的》中的表现。她的其他舞台演出包括《乞丐歌剧》、《绿野仙踪》、《万尼亚舅舅》、《家伙和娃娃》、《招待斯隆先生》和《好人》。她曾获得 13 项奥利弗奖提名。

在电影方面，斯汤顿出演了安东尼娅和简;在肯尼斯·布拉纳（Kenneth Branagh）的喜剧《彼得的朋友》（Peter's Friends）中担任多个配角，这是他改编的《无事生非》;李安改编的《理智与情感》;以及古装浪漫喜剧《恋爱中的莎士比亚》。她因在迈克·利的《维拉·德雷克》中饰演主角而广受好评，并因此获得了英国电影学院奖最佳女主角奖和威尼斯电影节沃尔皮杯最佳女主角奖，此外还获得了奥斯卡金像奖、金球奖和演员工会奖的最佳女主角提名。后来，她因在哈利波特电影《凤凰社》和《死亡圣器》第 1 部分中饰演多洛雷斯·乌姆里奇而获得了更广泛的观众。她继续在《保姆麦克菲》中担任配角，在《又一年》中与丽重聚，以及《唐顿庄园》的电影续集。她在历史电影《骄傲》中饰演人权活动家赫菲娜·海顿，并出演了英国喜剧《寻找你的脚》。她还为电影《小鸡快跑》、《亚瑟圣诞节》和《帕丁顿熊》提供配音角色。

在电视上，斯汤顿出演了情景喜剧《花园小径》和《合法吗？她在《我的家人和其他动物》中的表演为她赢得了国际艾美奖最佳女主角的提名，而她在《重返克兰福德》和《女孩》中的角色为她赢得了英国电影学院奖电视奖最佳女配角提名。对于后者，她还获得了黄金时段艾美奖迷你剧或电影杰出女配角奖的提名。她在《王冠》的最后两季中饰演伊丽莎白二世女王。

Français

biography:
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (née le 9 janvier 1956) est une actrice et chanteuse anglaise. Après une formation à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton a commencé sa carrière dans le théâtre de répertoire en 1976 et est apparue dans diverses productions théâtrales au Royaume-Uni.

Staunton a joué dans de nombreuses pièces de théâtre et comédies musicales à Londres tout au long de sa carrière, remportant quatre Laurence Olivier Awards ; trois pour la meilleure actrice dans un rôle principal dans une comédie musicale pour ses rôles dans les comédies musicales Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd et Gypsy, et un pour la meilleure performance dans un second rôle dans une pièce pour son travail dans A Chorus of Disapproval et The Corn is Green. Ses autres apparitions sur scène incluent The Beggar's Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Entertaining Mr Sloane et Good People. Elle a été nominée pour 13 Olivier Awards.

Au cinéma, Staunton a joué dans Antonia et Jane, dans plusieurs seconds rôles dans la comédie de Kenneth Branagh Peter's Friends, son adaptation de Much Ado About Nothing, dans l'adaptation de Raison et Sentiments d'Ang Lee et dans la comédie romantique en costumes Shakespeare in Love. Elle a été acclamée par la critique pour son interprétation du rôle-titre dans Vera Drake de Mike Leigh, pour lequel elle a remporté le BAFTA Award de la meilleure actrice dans un rôle principal et la Coupe Volpi du Festival du Film de Venise de la meilleure actrice, en plus d'être nominée pour la meilleure actrice aux Oscars, aux Golden Globe Awards et aux Screen Actors Guild Awards. Elle a ensuite gagné un public plus large pour son interprétation de Dolores Ombrage dans les films Harry Potter L'Ordre du Phénix et Les Reliques de la Mort - Partie 1. Elle a continué à jouer des seconds rôles dans Nanny McPhee, a retrouvé Leigh dans Another Year et dans la suite cinématographique de Downton Abbey. Elle a interprété la militante des droits de l'homme Hefina Headon dans le film historique Pride, et a joué dans la comédie britannique Finding Your Feet. Elle a également fourni des rôles de doublage pour les films Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas et Paddington.

À la télévision, Staunton a joué dans les sitcoms Up the Garden Path et Is it Legal?. Sa performance dans My Family and Other Animals lui a valu une nomination pour l'International Emmy Award de la meilleure actrice, tandis que ses rôles dans Return to Cranford et The Girl lui ont valu des nominations aux BAFTA TV Awards pour la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle. Pour ce dernier, elle a également été nommée pour le Primetime Emmy Award de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle dans une mini-série ou un film. Elle a interprété la reine Elizabeth II dans les deux dernières saisons de The Crown.

Italiano

biography:
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (nata il 9 gennaio 1956) è un'attrice e cantante inglese. Dopo essersi formata alla Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton ha iniziato la sua carriera nel teatro di repertorio nel 1976 ed è apparsa in varie produzioni teatrali nel Regno Unito.

Staunton si è esibita in una varietà di spettacoli teatrali e musical a Londra nel corso della sua carriera, vincendo quattro Laurence Olivier Awards; tre come migliore attrice protagonista in un musical per i suoi ruoli nei musical Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd e Gypsy, e uno come migliore interpretazione in un ruolo non protagonista in un'opera teatrale per il suo lavoro sia in A Chorus of Disapproval che in The Il mais è verde. Le sue altre apparizioni teatrali includono The Beggar's Opera, Il mago di Oz, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Entertaining Mr Sloane e Good People. È stata nominata per 13 Olivier Awards.

Nel film, Staunton ha recitato in Antonia e Jane; in diversi ruoli secondari nella commedia di Kenneth Branagh Peter's Friends e nel suo adattamento di Molto rumore per nulla; l'adattamento di Ragione e sentimento di Ang Lee; e la commedia romantica in costume Shakespeare in Love. Ha ottenuto il plauso della critica per la sua interpretazione nel ruolo della protagonista in Vera Drake di Mike Leigh, per il quale ha vinto il premio BAFTA come migliore attrice protagonista e la Coppa Volpi del Festival di Venezia come migliore attrice, oltre ad essere stata nominata come migliore attrice. dagli Academy Awards, dai Golden Globe Awards e dagli Screen Actors Guild Awards. In seguito ha conquistato un pubblico più ampio per la sua interpretazione di Dolores Umbridge nei film di Harry Potter L'Ordine della Fenice e I Doni della Morte - Parte 1. Ha continuato a recitare in ruoli secondari in Tata McPhee, si è riunita con Leigh in Un altro anno e nel seguito del film Abbazia di Downton. Ha interpretato l'attivista per i diritti umani Hefina Headon nel film storico Pride e ha recitato nella commedia britannica Alla ricerca dei tuoi piedi. Ha anche fornito ruoli di doppiaggio per i film Galline in fuga, Arthur Christmas e Paddington.

In televisione, Staunton ha recitato nelle sitcom Up the Garden Path e Is it Legal?. La sua interpretazione in La mia famiglia e altri animali le è valsa una nomination all'International Emmy Award come migliore attrice, mentre i suoi ruoli in Return to Cranford e The Girl le sono valsi la nomination ai BAFTA TV Award come migliore attrice non protagonista. Per quest'ultimo, è stata anche nominata per il Primetime Emmy Award come miglior attrice non protagonista in una miniserie o in un film. Ha interpretato la Regina Elisabetta II nelle ultime due stagioni di The Crown.

日本語

イメルダ・スタウントン

biography: 王立演劇学校で演技を学んだのち、舞台女優としてキャリアをスタートさせ、82年よりナショナル・シアター、ロイヤル・シェイクスピア・カンパニーなどの舞台で活躍する。また、ビル・ダグラス監督作の映画「Comrades（原題）」（86）に出演以来、TVドラマや映画にも活躍の場を広げ、映画「いつか晴れた日に」（95）や「恋におちたシェイクスピア」（98）などに出演。主演を務めたマイク・リー監督作「ヴェラ・ドレイク」（04）ではベネチア国際映画祭で主演女優賞を受賞し、第77回アカデミー主演女優賞にもノミネートされた。映画「ハリー・ポッターと不死鳥の騎士団」（07）と「ハリー・ポッターと死の秘宝 PART1」では、ドローレス・アンブリッジ役を演じて世界的に有名に。その他の映画出演作に「家族の庭」（10）、「マレフィセント」シリーズ（14、19）、「パレードへようこそ」（14）、「輝ける人生」（17）、「ダウントン・アビー」（20）などがある。2006年には大英帝国勲章を授与された。

普通话

艾美達·斯丹頓

biography:
英國女演員和歌手。在皇家戲劇藝術學院接受培訓後，斯湯頓於 1976 年開始了她的話劇生涯，並出現在英國的各種戲劇作品中。

斯湯頓在她的職業生涯中曾在倫敦演出過各種戲劇和音樂劇，贏得了四項勞倫斯·奧利弗獎; 三項音樂劇最佳女主角獎，以表彰她在音樂劇《走進森林》、《斯威尼·託德》和《吉普賽人》中的角色，以及一項最佳戲劇配角獎，以表彰她在《不贊成的合唱團》和《玉米是綠色的》中的表現。她的其他舞台演出包括《乞丐歌劇》、《綠野仙蹤》、《萬尼亞舅舅》、《傢夥和娃娃》、《招待斯隆先生》和《好人》。她曾獲得 13 項奧利弗獎提名。

在電影方面，斯湯頓出演了安東尼婭和簡; 在肯尼斯·布拉納（Kenneth Branagh）的喜劇《彼得的朋友》（Peter's Friends）中擔任多個配角，這是他改編的《無事生非》; 李安改編的《理智與情感》; 以及古裝浪漫喜劇《戀愛中的莎士比亞》。她因在邁克·利的《維拉·德雷克》中飾演主角而廣受好評，並因此獲得了英國電影學院獎最佳女主角獎和威尼斯電影節沃爾皮杯最佳女主角獎，此外還獲得了奧斯卡金像獎、金球獎和演員工會獎的最佳女主角提名。後來，她因在哈利波特電影《鳳凰社》和《死亡聖器》第 1 部分中飾演多洛雷斯·烏姆里奇而獲得了更廣泛的觀眾。她繼續在《保姆麥克菲》中擔任配角，在《一年未緣》中與麗重聚，以及《唐頓莊園》的電影續集。她在歷史電影《大愛．同行》中飾演人權活動家赫菲娜·海頓，並出演了英國喜劇《尋找你的腳》。她還為電影《咪走雞》、《亞瑟聖誕節》和《柏靈頓》提供配音角色。

在電視上，斯湯頓出演了情景喜劇《花園小徑》和《合法嗎？她在《我的家人和其他動物》中的表演為她贏得了國際艾美獎最佳女主角的提名，而她在《重返克蘭福德》和《夢女芭蕾》中的角色為她贏得了英國電影學院獎電視獎最佳女配角提名。對於後者，她還獲得了黃金時段艾美獎迷你劇或電影傑出女配角獎的提名。她在《王冠》的最後兩季中飾演伊麗莎白二世女王。

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biography:
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, 9 Ocak 1956 tarihinde Archway, Londra'da dünyaya gelmiştir. İrlandalı Katolik bir göçmen ailenin tek çocuğu olan Staunton, yeteneğini genç yaşta keşfederek dünyanın en prestijli oyunculuk okullarından Kraliyet Dramatik Sanatlar Akademisi'nde (RADA) eğitim gördü. 1976'da mezun olduktan sonra İngiltere'nin en saygın tiyatro sahnelerinde, özellikle repertuar tiyatrolarında ve National Theatre bünyesinde kariyerine başladı. Sahnedeki başarısı, ona müzikallerdeki üstün performanslarıyla kazandığı çok sayıda Laurence Olivier Ödülü'nü getirdi; "Into the Woods", "Sweeney Todd" ve özellikle 2015 yapımı "Gypsy" müzikalindeki Momma Rose performansı tiyatro tarihine geçti.

Sinemadaki kariyeri 1980'lerde başlasa da, 1990'larda "Kuru Gürültü" (Much Ado About Nothing) (1993), "Aşk ve Yaşam" (Sense and Sensibility) (1995) ve "Aşık Shakespeare" (Shakespeare in Love) (1998) gibi dönem filmlerindeki başarılı yan rollerle tanındı. Ancak Staunton'un sinemadaki asıl devleştiği an, Mike Leigh'in yönettiği sosyal gerçekçi drama "Vera Drake" (2004) filmi oldu. 1950'lerde işçi sınıfından gizlice kürtaj yapan bir kadını canlandırdığı bu rol, ona En İyi Kadın Oyuncu dalında BAFTA Ödülü ve Venedik Film Festivali'nde Volpi Kupası kazandırdı, ayrıca Oscar'a aday gösterildi.

Küresel çapta bir popüler kültür ikonuna dönüşmesi ise, "Harry Potter ve Zümrüdüanka Yoldaşlığı" (2007) ve "Harry Potter ve Ölüm Yadigârları: Bölüm 1" (2010) filmlerinde canlandırdığı Dolores Umbridge karakteriyle gerçekleşti. Pembe kıyafetleri içindeki bu otoriter ve sadist bürokrat performansı o kadar etkileyiciydi ki, serinin en nefret edilen ama aynı zamanda oyunculuğu en çok takdir edilen kötü karakterlerinden biri oldu.

Kariyerinin ilerleyen dönemlerinde çeşitliliğini koruyan Staunton, "Malefiz" (Maleficent) (2014) filminde bir peri, "Onur" (Pride) (2014) filminde bir insan hakları savunucusu olarak izleyici karşısına çıktı. Televizyon dünyasında ise "Downton Abbey" filmlerinde yer aldıktan sonra, Netflix'in fenomen dizisi "The Crown"ın (2022-2023) beşinci ve altıncı sezonlarında Kraliçe II. Elizabeth'i canlandırarak bu zorlu rolün altından başarıyla kalktı. Sanata katkılarından dolayı 2016 yılında Britanya İmparatorluk Nişanı (CBE) ve 2024 yılında "Dame" unvanı ile onurlandırılan Imelda Staunton, hem sahnede hem de perdede İngiltere'nin en yetenekli ve saygın karakter oyuncularından biri olarak kabul edilmektedir.

also_known_as: Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton

overview: When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

original_title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

title: Freedom Writers

overview: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

title: Shakespeare in Love

overview: Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

title: Sense and Sensibility

overview: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

title: Nanny McPhee

overview: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

title: Chicken Run

overview: The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

title: Peter's Friends

overview: After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

title: Much Ado About Nothing

overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

title: Alice in Wonderland

overview: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

title: Taking Woodstock

overview: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

title: The Far Traveller

overview: When she died around 1050 AD, a littleknown Viking explorer had become the most traveled woman of the Middle Ages. She had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean eight times and her travels extended from Iceland to Greenland, North America, Scandinavia, the British Isles, through  Europe, and all the way to the Vatican in Rome. She was rescued by Leif Erikson from the shipwreck that earned him the nickname Leif the Lucky. Her name was Gudrídur Thorbjarnardóttir, aka the Far Traveller.

overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

original_title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

title: Shadow Man

overview: Rogue operatives within the C.I.A. smuggle a lethal virus out of the U.S. and use ex-intelligence officer Jack Foster (Seagal) as their courier. Unaware of the plot he's involved in, Jack takes his daughter on a trip to Europe, where she's kidnapped by a mysterious foreign agent. Now to save her and take down her kidnappers, Jack must blast his way into the shadowy world of international espionage, where enemies lurk at every corner and friends can turn on you in an instant!

title: How About You...

overview: A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

title: The Wind in the Willows

overview: Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.

title: Three and Out

overview: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.

title: Blackball

overview: Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.

title: Another Year

overview: During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

title: Twelfth Night

overview: Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

title: My Family and Other Animals

overview: Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.

title: Roots

overview: Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voice and views.

title: Crush

overview: Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.

title: I'll Be There

overview: A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.

title: A Bunch of Amateurs

overview: Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production.

title: Yellowbacks

overview: Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'

title: Guilty Hearts

overview: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.

title: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

overview: A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

title: Arthur Christmas

overview: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

title: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

overview: The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. The chaotic adventure takes them from exotic shores to Victorian London, and from a haplessly smitten scientist to a diabolical queen.

original_title: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

title: Another Life

overview: A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

title: Antonia and Jane

overview: Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

title: Paddington in Peru

overview: Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

title: The Awakening

overview: In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

title: Maleficent

overview: 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 threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.

title: Downton Abbey: A New Era

overview: The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

title: Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

overview: A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.

original_title: Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

title: The Girl

overview: Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.

title: Rat

overview: After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.

title: Deadly Advice

overview: Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife

title: Pride

overview: In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

title: They Never Slept

overview: When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French  Resistance.

title: The Englishman's Wife

overview: A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.

title: Remember Me?

overview: A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

title: Psychoville Halloween Special

overview: Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?

title: The Canterville Ghost

overview: An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

title: Paddington

overview: A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

title: That Day We Sang

overview: TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the choir in which they sang as children, the music evokes powerful memories, leading them to realise they still have a chance to find happiness.

title: A Confession As Told By ITV News

overview: Reporter Robert Murphy looks at how the real story of the Halliwell murders unfolded on ITV News and inspired those behind the television drama titled "A Confession".

title: Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

overview: Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

title: Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

overview: Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftieth birthday.

title: Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

overview: On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged production. He had specially devised it to celebrate Sondheim’s extraordinary talents as a composer and lyricist. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Petula Clark, Anna-Jane Casey, Rosalie Craig, Janie Dee, Judi Dench, Daniel Evans, Maria Friedman, Haydn Gwynne, Bonnie Langford, Damian Lewis and Julia McKenzie.

title: Bright Young Things

overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.

title: Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

overview: Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream, Snowmole takes him to a land where his every wish is granted. But dreams can become nightmares and wishes can sometimes backfire!

title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

overview: The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

title: Gypsy

overview: Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

title: The Virgin of Liverpool

overview: In Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's replacement plans. As her family faces financial struggles and newfound success, the statue's tears return, turning their lives upside down and drawing crowds from near and far to witness the miraculous phenomenon.

title: Don't Leave Me This Way

overview: British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.

title: Mole's Christmas

overview: Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets.

title: Citizen X

overview: Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

title: A Masculine Ending

overview: While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.

title: London: The Modern Babylon

overview: London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

title: Finding Your Feet

overview: When her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to a community dance class.

title: The Ugly Duckling

overview: The Ugly Duckling teams up with friend Scruffy, and the lovable misfits embark on a journey that helps them realize that their differences are what make them special.

title: Comrades

overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

title: Paddington 2

overview: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

title: Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

overview: That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film she wrote and directed, and also looks at the real events which inspired her story. She goes back to Manchester to find out about the original choir of the 1920s, and the children who sang on the record of Nymphs and Shepherds. And in between unpeeling the history and sharing the fun of the shoot, she tries to work out how a piece of writing can evolve. Victoria unpicks the process in an attempt to understand how what started as a straightforward account of a day in the life of a children's choir in 1929 ended up as a middle-aged love story about the power of music to reconnect lonely people and give them a second chance to fall in love.

title: National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

overview: In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

original_title: National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

title: Clay

overview: Adaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up against Mouldy, the town bully. Turning Crazy Mary s garden shed into a workshop, they discover that the sculptures they create come to life. Together they raise a golem, a creature fashioned from clay, capable of dispatching anyone, even Martin Mould. But when Mouldy winds up dead, the boys have to deal with the awful power they may have unleashed and the perils of getting what you wish for.

title: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

overview: A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic.  J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.

title: National Theatre Live: Follies

overview: New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

title: Downton Abbey

overview: The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

title: The Adventures of Mole

overview: Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills of the riverbank in the company of his new found friend, Rat.

title: Easy Money

overview: At a concert Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

overview: Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

title: Little Bird

overview: A young woman seeks to expand her limited horizons, set against a backdrop of wartime London.

title: White Other

overview: In the dead of night a troubled youth from an East London estate, Ray Marsden stalks into a hospital ward demanding to see the patient. The attendant Nurse, Lynne McDermott is sceptical about Ray's motives but gradually uncovers the truth about his violent past and in so doing makes a startling discovery that will change both of their lives forever.

title: The Heat of the Day

overview: In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.

title: Amulet

overview: Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

title: The Snow Queen

overview: Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. But her mirror breaks, and on her mission to find all the missing pieces, she kidnaps Tom, who has part of the mirror in his body. Can his sister Ellie save Tom, and stop the evil Queen from achieving global dominance?

title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

original_title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

title: The Adventures of Toad

overview: Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countryside in his new motor car getting into all sorts of trouble. Meanwhile, his wonderful home, Toad Hall, has been taken over by the wicked weasels and ferrets. It's now up to Toad and his riverbank friends to embark on the biggest adventure of all - the Great Battle of Toad Hall!

title: The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

overview: The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination. Specially commissioned animations from Julia's long-term illustrator Axel Scheffler bring her biography to life. With contributions from well-known admirers and collaborators, this is a tribute to the woman who has created the characters and stories that have become a fixture of children’s bedtime routines all around the world and spawned multi-award-winning adaptations for stage and screen.  Looking at her works, the programme uncovers the surprising stories behind how Julia's iconic characters were created and what they mean to a generation of readers. It also explores why Donaldson’s books appeal to both children and adults alike – tackling serious themes of love, loss, fear and bullying in a poignant but subtle way.

original_title: The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

title: Ready

overview: Naomi has known all her life that she will succumb to the same fate that has befallen her family for generations. Unlike her ancestors, who all made unmitigated fools of themselves trying to avoid the curse, Naomi has accepted her destiny and tells herself that she is ready.

title: The Pen

overview: A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.

title: The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

overview: This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC in Christmas animations for the last few years, and will probably do so for years to come.

title: & Sons

overview: A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, believing he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead of seeking forgiveness for their shattered family, he tells them a wild and unbelievable secret that could rewrite their past.

title: Victorian Britain on Film

overview: Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

title: The Snow Queen's Revenge

overview: The Snow Queen holds Ellie responsible for ruining her plans to freeze the world and sets out to seek revenge. She kidnaps Dimly the flying reindeer and once again Ellie and her friend Peeps the Sparrow are forced to travel, this time to the South Pole, where the Snow Queen and her Trolls have taken up residence.

title: The Wind in the Willows

overview: Follow Mr. Toad as he purchases a motor car, and his pals Ratty, Badger, and Mole are forced to come to his rescue after a series of misadventures, as well as a brush with the law.

title: Jack and the Beanstalk

overview: In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bean girl) and Ambrose (the nervous donkey) are drawn into all sorts of exciting adventures as they attempt to rid the Beanland of the wicked Giant.  This exciting and beautifully animated re-telling of the classic tale is filled with fun, humour and wonderful music to delight children of all ages time and time again.

title: National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

overview: Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?

original_title: National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

title: Adapting Austen

overview: Documentary on the adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' for Ang Lee's 1995 film.

title: Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

overview: Twenty-five years after their collaboration on 'Sense and Sensibility' (1995), members of the cast and crew reunite to discuss their experiences making the film.

original_title: Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

title: Testimony

overview: An extraordinary group of women – supported by activist organisation Justice for Magdalenes – fight to hold the Irish government accountable for abuses in the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, and the forced separation of families, which takes them all the way to the United Nations.

title: Where Have I Been All Your Life?

overview: Liam's innocent quest uncovers a series of dark secrets in an otherwise quiet suburban household. A BBC Comedy short film.

title: West the Road

overview: A group of women are brought together by the death of their childhood friend. When they discover that she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption at the age of 15, the group embark on a journey in search of the child, with a donkey called Thatcher in tow.

title: Freedom Writers

title: Shakespeare in Love

title: Sense and Sensibility

title: Vera Drake

title: Nanny McPhee

title: Chicken Run

title: Peter's Friends

title: Much Ado About Nothing

title: Alice in Wonderland

title: Taking Woodstock

title: The Far Traveller

title: Shadow Man

title: How About You...

title: The Wind in the Willows

title: Three and Out

title: Blackball

title: Another Year

title: Twelfth Night

title: My Family and Other Animals

title: Roots

title: Crush

title: I'll Be There

title: A Bunch of Amateurs

title: Yellowbacks

title: Guilty Hearts

title: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

title: Arthur Christmas

title: Another Life

title: Antonia and Jane

title: Paddington in Peru

title: The Awakening

title: Maleficent

title: Downton Abbey: A New Era

title: The Girl

title: Rat

title: Deadly Advice

title: Pride

title: They Never Slept

title: The Englishman's Wife

title: Remember Me?

title: Psychoville Halloween Special

title: The Canterville Ghost

title: Paddington

title: That Day We Sang

title: A Confession As Told By ITV News

title: Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me

title: Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

title: Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

title: Bright Young Things

title: Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

title: Gypsy

title: The Virgin of Liverpool

title: Don't Leave Me This Way

title: Mole's Christmas

title: Citizen X

title: A Masculine Ending

title: London: The Modern Babylon

title: Finding Your Feet

title: The Ugly Duckling

title: Comrades

title: Paddington 2

title: Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

title: Clay

title: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

title: National Theatre Live: Follies

title: Downton Abbey

title: The Adventures of Mole

title: Easy Money

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

title: Little Bird

title: White Other

title: The Heat of the Day

title: Amulet

title: The Snow Queen

title: The Adventures of Toad

title: Ready

title: The Pen

title: The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

title: & Sons

title: Victorian Britain on Film

title: The Snow Queen's Revenge

title: The Wind in the Willows

title: Jack and the Beanstalk

title: Adapting Austen

title: Testimony

title: Where Have I Been All Your Life?

title: West the Road