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  2. Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from London, with Irish ancestry. She is best known for playing Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films, and Queen Elizabeth II in the fifth season of The Crown.

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  3. She gained a wider audience for her role as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1. She also appeared in the films Nanny McPhee, Another Year, Pride, Finding Your Feet, and Downton Abbey, and provided voice roles for Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas, and Paddington.

  4. Jul 23, 2020 · The versatile actress talks about her roles as Dolores Umbridge, Queen Elizabeth II and Sister Claire in a new interview with Variety. She reveals her love for horror, special effects and supporting new voices in filmmaking.

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    Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is a British actress who portrays Dolores Umbridge in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. She also voiced the Umbridge on Unicycle (though archive sound) in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

    Imelda Staunton was born to Joseph and Bridie Staunton on the 9th of January 1956 in Archway, North London. She is married to the actor Jim Carter and has a daughter named Bessie, born 1993.

    Staunton is a well-respected, multiple award-winning actress. She has won the Laurence Olivier theatre award twice, received an Academy Award nomination and is an associate member of RADA. She has appeared in countless theatre productions, films and television shows, including; Much Ado About Nothing (1993, directed by Kenneth Branagh and co-starring Branagh, Emma Thompson, and music scored by Patrick Doyle), Sense and Sensibility (1995, also starring Emma Thompson, Robert Hardy, Gemma Jones, Alan Rickman, Elizabeth Spriggs, and Sophie Thompson), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Vera Drake (2004), and Nanny McPhee (2005). In 2012, Staunton played the lead role of Mrs Lovett in the West End revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

    In 1999, she played Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield, which Daniel Radcliffe starred in as young David Copperfield. She reprised her antagonist role as the voice of Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists!, co-starring David Tennant and Brendan Gleeson.

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  5. Nov 11, 2010 · Harry's only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale-the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the...

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  6. Nov 9, 2016 · Imelda Staunton, who played the evil Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, reveals how she embraced the role and why she thinks she's a monster. She also talks about her most difficult scene and her views on Umbridge's pink outfits.

  7. Critics have recognised Umbridge as one of the most hated, as well as the most compelling, villains in the series. Umbridge was portrayed by Imelda Staunton in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

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