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Imelda Staunton - what members say


  • Crush
  • Crush review by A customer from Kettering
    Rated - 4 stars Crush 26 August 2008
    ...tress of a private school, Molly (Anna Chancellor) is the local GP, and Janine (Imelda Staunton) is the police chief. The equilibrium of the little spinster-circle is upset w...  
  • Vera Drake
  • Vera Drake review by Jim from Bromsgrove UK
    Rated - 4 stars In a time when a cup of tea solved all problems! 28 January 2005
    ...ing the scene by Mike Leigh. Some very good performances particularly from Imelda Staunton and Phil Davies but I would not put it in either OSCAR or BAFTA award winning t...  
  • Freedom Writers
  • Freedom Writers review by A customer from scotland
    Rated - 3 stars not overly enthralled.... 18 April 2008
    ...ople's 'conversion' is too cheesy to be realistic - the writing really is poor. Imelda Staunton's part was really the only entertaining one, playing the baddy, but there isn't...  

Imelda Staunton - filmography


  • Clay on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Ian McElhinney,  Ben-Ryan Davies
    Director: Andrew Gunn
    Certificate: 12
    Based on the novel by award-winning author David Almond. Set in the mid-60s, this dark and mesmerising fable tells how 14-year-old David's life is changed forever by a mysterious outsider, Stephen. Stephen is a reject from priest-school, where not even the fathers can cope with his strange ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 54% from 44 members
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  • Nanny McPhee on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Colin Firth,  Kelly MacDonald
    Director: Kirk Jones
    Certificate: U
    A recently widowed Mr Brown employs the services of a nanny in the hope that order will be restored to his household and his seven children. However, the children have other ideas having already dispatched seventeen nannies, who also thought that they knew better. Unfortunately the children have ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 9,739 members
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  • Vera Drake on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Estelle Harris,  Philip Davis
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: 12
    Mike Leigh produces another devastating masterpiece with the heartbreaking VERA DRAKE. Imelda Staunton is the title character, beloved wife of Stan (Phil Davis) and mother of Sid (Daniel Mays) and Ethel (Alex Kelly). Vera spends her days cleaning houses for money and looking in on elderly and sick ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 5,112 members
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  • Blackball on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Paul Kaye,  Vince Vaughn,  Johnny Vegas
    Director: Mel Smith
    Certificate: 15
    Directed by funnyman Mel Smith, BLACKBALL follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye). Starkey lives in a traditional, quiet seaside town where nothing seems to inspire him except for bowls. However, inspite of his talent for the game, his working-class upbringing does not go down well with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 566 members
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  • Another Life on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Natasha Little,  Nick Moran,  Ioan Gruffudd
    Director: Philip Goodhew
    Certificate: 15
    Philip Goodhew's gripping drama is set London shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Natasha Little plays Edith, a woman who becomes intimately involved with two different men. The ensemble cast includes Nick Moran, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Wilkinson, and Imelda Staunton.
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 254 members
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  • Crush on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Imelda Staunton,  Estelle Harris
    Director: John McKay
    Certificate: 15
    Three forty-something women, Kate (Andie MacDowell), Molly (Anna Chancellor), and Janine (Imelda Staunton), gather weekly to swap stories, drink gin, and laugh about whose life is more pathetic, the prize for which is a box of chocolates. A constant problem for these ladies, who live in the sleepy ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 59% from 442 members
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  • Rat on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Pete Postlethwaite,  Imelda Staunton,  Frank Kelly
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: PG
    This quaint Irish tale focuses on Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite), a man who returns home one night after having a few pints at the local pub and mysteriously transforms into a rat. His metamorphosis is shocking to his family, and as they try to come to terms with his new identity, Hubert embarks ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 54% from 203 members
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Imelda Staunton - downloads


  • Bright Young Things for Download (2003)
    Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore,  Peter O'Toole,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Stephen,  Fry
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 102 minutes
    Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 12 members
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  • Blackball for Download (2003)
    Starring: Paul Kaye,  Vince Vaughn,  Johnny Vegas
    Director: Mel Smith
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 93 minutes
    Directed by funnyman Mel Smith, BLACKBALL follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye). Starkey lives in a traditional, quiet seaside town where nothing seems to inspire him except for bowls. However, inspite of his talent for the game, his working-class upbringing does not go down well with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 20 members
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Imelda Staunton facts

5 most recent films


Clay - 2.5 stars
Three and Out - 3.0 stars
Cranford - Complete BBC Series - 4.5 stars
Freedom Writers - 3.5 stars
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Cranford - Complete BBC Series - 4.5 stars
Shakespeare Retold - 4.0 stars
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
My Family And Other Animals - 3.5 stars
Freedom Writers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Taking Woodstock - 3 stars
Snow Queen's Revenge - 2.0 stars
Clay - 2.5 stars
Freedom Writers - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Snow Queen - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Estelle Harris - 12 times - show films
Gabriel Chavarria - 3 times - show films
Michael Gambon - 3 times - show films
Kristen Herrera - 3 times - show films
April Hernandez - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Richard LaGravenese - 3 times - show films
Mel Smith - 2 times - show films
David Yates - 2 times - show films
Martin Gates - 2 times - show films
Fry - 2 times - show films