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Lesley Manville
  • Common Name:
    Leslie Manville
  • Date of Birth:
    March 12, 1956
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Pisces
  • Place of Birth:
    Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Blonde
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    British
  • Religion:
    Christianity

Family

Lesley Manville
  • Spouse:
    Joe Dixon - Present, Gary Oldman - Divorced
  • Son:
    Alfie Oldman

Career

Lesley Manville
  • Profession:
    Actress
  • Debut:
    Pop Goes The Weasel - 1974

Awards

Lesley Manville
2003 : ALFS Award, British Actress of the Year for: All or Nothing (2002/I)

Trivia

Lesley Manville
  • For her role as Nadine in the series Other People's Children, Manville received a nomination for Best Actress in the 2001 Royal Television Society Awards.
  • She is perhaps best known for her acting collaborations with Mike Leigh, which began in 1980 with the BBC play Grown-Ups.
  • She began acting as a teenager, appearing in television series such as the soap opera Emmerdale Farm(1974-1976) and King Cinder.
  • Manville is the daughter of a taxi driver.

Biography

Lesley Manville
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Lesley Manville is an English actress. A member of director Mike Leigh's hardworking repertory cast, British actress Lesley Manville started acting in U.K. television dramas during the early '80s. After her debut feature in 1985 for the crime drama Dance With a Stranger, she found her place in comedy-dramas with Clare Peploe's High Season. The next year, she began her longtime collaboration with Mike Leigh for the comedy High Hopes, followed by Secrets and Lies and Topsy-Turvy.

She married actor Gary Oldman and had a son, but the couple divorced soon after they both appeared in the made-for-TV movie The Firm in 1988. She continued to work in British miniseries, TV movies, and short films throughout the '90s, including an appearance as Mrs. Micawber in a TNT version of David Copperfield. Manville finally gained a lead role in Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002, as Penny, a grocery store clerk married to taxi cab driver Phil (frequent Leigh leading man Timothy Spall).

Filmography

Lesley Manville

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