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• Lesley Manville began her studies as a soprano singer when she was eight years old. She won the Sussex U18 championship twice.
• Julia Carey, an Italia Conti teacher, taught her improvisation.
• In 1972, she made her professional stage debut in I an Albert, a West End musical. John Schlesinger directed the film.
• She began her acting career on television by playing tiny roles.
• In 1974, she made her television debut in the series Village Hall.
• She quickly won a prominent part as Rosemary Kendall in Emmerdale Farm, a British soap opera.
• Dance with a Stranger, a British tragedy film from 1985, was her feature debut.
• Her collaboration with director Mike Leigh, whom she met in 1979, is well-known. 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 were among the films in which they collaborated (2014).
• For All or Nothing, she received the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress and the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Actress of the Year.
• In 2011, she was nominated for another BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Actress.
• For her performance in Another Year, she was awarded the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Actress of the Year, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuoso Award.
• She has also appeared in a number of other films. Dance with a Stranger (1985), A Christmas Carol (2009), Maleficent (2014), Phantom Thread (2018), Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), and Let Him Go (2020) are just a few of Manville’s big films.
• For her part in Phantom Thread, she was nominated for the Best Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
• She was nominated for numerous additional critics’ awards and won the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Supporting Actress of the Year for Phantom Thread.
• She starred in Emmerdale Farm, A Bunch of Fives, Mum, and Harlots on television.
• For her work in Mum, she received the Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance (Female). In both 2017 and 2019, she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for the same role.
• She has also starred in a number of television programs as a guest star or in minor parts.
• In the final two seasons of the television series The Crown, she will play Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
• She’s also appeared in a number of stage productions.
• She earned a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in the production of Ghosts in 2013-14.