Imelda Staunton
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 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.
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs Umney (voice)An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
as KnotgrassMaleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them...
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
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Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings...
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A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a...
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Paddington in Peru
as Aunt Lucy (voice)Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for...
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Maleficent
as KnotgrassA beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable...
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Nanny McPhee
as Mrs. BlatherwickWidower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have...
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Alice in Wonderland
as Tall Flower Faces (voice)Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks...
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Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute...
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A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone...
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Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the...
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The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of...
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Freedom Writers
as Margaret CampbellA young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and...
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Sense and Sensibility
as Charlotte Jennings PalmerThe Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem...
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The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Maud BagshawThe Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the...
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Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's...
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Taking Woodstock
as Sonia TeichbergThe story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the...
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Downton Abbey
as Maud BagshawThe beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their...
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The Awakening
as Maud HillIn post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a...
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Finding Your Feet
as Sandra AbbottA lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
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Much Ado About Nothing
as MargaretIn this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's...
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Vera Drake
as Vera DrakeAbortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a...
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Shadow Man
as Ambassador CochranAn intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
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Bright Young Things
as Lady BrownDuring the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with...
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Pride
as HefinaIn 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of...
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Citizen X
as Mrs. BurakovBased on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over...
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Crush
as JanineThree 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes,...
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Amulet
as Sister ClaireTomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house,...
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Twelfth Night
as MariaShakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near...
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as NarratorA thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with...
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Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of...
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Another Year
as JanetDuring a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family...
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Blackball
as BridgetBlackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an...
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My Family and Other Animals
as MotherAn English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
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After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from...
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Deadly Advice
as Beth GreenwoodMother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see...
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as SelfOn 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in...
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I'll Be There
as Dr. BridgetA comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter...
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The Virgin of Liverpool
as Sylvia ConlonIn Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's...
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A Bunch of Amateurs
as MaryJefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career....
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Another Life
as Ethel GraydonA woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the...
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Mrs. CottisloeThe comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
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Three and Out
as Rosemary CassidyA London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
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How About You...
as Hazel NightingaleA young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a...
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Remember Me?
as uncreditedA domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who...
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Comrades
as Betsy LovelessThe story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed...
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That Day We Sang
as EnidTV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When...
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Guilty Hearts
as NaomiOver the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the...
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The Ugly Duckling
as Scruffy (voice)The Ugly Duckling teams up with friend Scruffy, and the lovable misfits embark on a journey that...
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The Englishman's Wife
as StephanieA woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County...
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The Snow Queen
as Ivy / AngorraFar away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the...
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Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as SelfStephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
as DillyIn this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He...
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Don't Leave Me This Way
as Bridget BennetBritish academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch....
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London: The Modern Babylon
as Spoken Quotations (voice)London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to...
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The Heat of the Day
as LouieIn World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mrs. LovettIn 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber...
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Easy Money
as Mary PriceAt a concert Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns...
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Yellowbacks
as Cheryl NewmanBritain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged...
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Clay
as Mary DoonanAdaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up...
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The Wind in the Willows
as Barge LadyMatt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and...
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They Never Slept
as The ProducerWhen plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she...
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White Other
as Lynne McDermottIn the dead of night a troubled youth from an East London estate, Ray Marsden stalks into a...
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Rat
as Conchita FlynnAfter a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family...
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National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
as MarthaIn the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her...
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Gypsy
as RoseGypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a...
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Little Bird
as First Officer SimpkinsA young woman seeks to expand her limited horizons, set against a backdrop of wartime London.
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National Theatre Live: Follies
as Sally Durant PlummerNew York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic...
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Mole's Christmas
as (voices)Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets.
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Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
as HerselfA documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of...
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A Masculine Ending
as Bridget BennetWhile English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night...
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The Far Traveller
as NarratorWhen she died around 1050 AD, a littleknown Viking explorer had become the most traveled woman...
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Antonia and Jane
as Jane HartmanPlain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris...
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Roots
as Jenny BealesPresentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in...
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The Adventures of Toad
as VoiceToad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the...
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Psychoville Halloween Special
as Grace AndrewsPsychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold...
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The Adventures of Mole
as VoiceMole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and...
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Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
as SelfJim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music...
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Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Shrew (voice)Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night...
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Midsomer Murders
as Christine CooperThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Doctor Who
as Interface (voice)The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as SelfThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish...
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The Graham Norton Show
as SelfEach week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on...
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Brassic
as EdieA group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern...
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The Crown
as Queen Elizabeth IIThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...
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Tales from the Crypt
as SarahCadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...
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Natural World
as NarratorNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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Trying
as PennyAll Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With...
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - NomineeAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
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Little Britain
as uncreditedA zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little...
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Little Britain
as Mrs. MeadA zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Polly FlindersThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...
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Psychoville
as uncreditedPsychoville is a British dark comedy television . Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous...
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Performance
as Jenny BealesAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Fingersmith
as Mrs. SucksbyA young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside...
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Cranford
as Miss PoleA rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change...
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Cranford
as Self/Miss Octavia PoleA rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change...
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie
as uncreditedA British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and...
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David Copperfield
as Mrs. MicawberCharles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather...
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Screen Two
as The ProducerSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Lily's Driftwood Bay
as Rowena Rabbit (voice)Follow the imagination of Lily, a five-year-old hunter, as she creates a world of adventure and...
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ShakespeaRe-Told
as uncreditedFour of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
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The Singing Detective
as Staff Nurse WhiteTormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective...
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Big & Small
as uncreditedBig & Small is a British children's television series aimed at preschoolers. Big & Small is a...
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Irene RuddockWidely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return...
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A Confession
as Karen EdwardsThe story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure...
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Flesh and Blood
as Mary BennettThree adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother,...
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Is It Legal?
as uncreditedIs It Legal? is a British television sitcom set in a solicitors office in Hounslow, west London,...
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The Play on One
as Cheryl NewmanA series of plays specially written for television.
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Strange
as uncreditedThe world of John Strange is no ordinary place - full of malevolent demons that must be stopped...
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Murder
as DCI Billie DoryJulie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old...
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Cambridge Spies
as The QueenIn 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful...
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Ladies in Charge
as uncreditedThis touching drama series charts the fortunes of three young women who, having returned from...
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Ladies in Charge
as EdithThis touching drama series charts the fortunes of three young women who, having returned from...
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