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Lesley Manville

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Naissance
12 mars 1956 · Brighton, East Sussex, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Nom de naissance
Lesley Ann Manville
Taille
5′ 2″ (1,57 m)

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Often works with director Mike Leigh

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Gave birth to her only child at age 32, a son, Alfie Oldman, on December 10, 1988. The child's father is her first ex-husband, Gary Oldman.
She appears with ex-husband Gary Oldman in Un conte de Noël (2009). The two were nominated for Oscars for the same year, 2017, she for Best Supporting Actress (Le fil caché (2017)) and he for Best Actor (L'heure la plus sombre (2017), which he won).
Is a trained soprano-singer and has practiced the art since the age of eight. She chose to pursue an acting career instead when she discovered her talent for improvisation.
Despite being a praised theater-thespian, she took off 10 years from the stage between 1995 and 2005 in order to pursue acting in movies, especially those directed by Mike Leigh. In 2005, she returned to the stage in the big-budget production of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" as Marisa Coulter. The same role has also been played by Nicole Kidman, two years later, in À la croisée des mondes - La boussole d'or (2007).
Has appeared with former husband Gary Oldman in two films: The Firm (1989) and Un conte de Noël (2009).

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[on having portrayed the mother of Matt Smith, James Corden and Colin Morgan]: All those boys have done rather well since they worked with me as their mother. They owe me big time. They're all wealthier than me - they can have a whip round.
[on Maléfique (2014)]: It's a massive epic Disney film based on Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie in the title role. Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and myself play the three pixies. They are hilarious. It was just the most happy, happy time. Some of the time in the film we're life-sized, but for the rest of it we're little ditty pixies. It was done by motion capture, so we spent three weeks of filming flying around Pinewood studios, with the Cirque du Soleil people strapping us in and tumbling us in the air. It was just fantastic. It's going to come out this Summer and there's going to be a doll of me that you'll be able to buy at the Disney shop! It's amazing that Imelda and I go from epic Mike Leigh plays and films to being pixie Disney dolls!
[on David Schwimmer, her co-star of the play "Some Girls"] It's lovely. He's not at all starry. He doesn't take a solo curtain call. He likes to take his gloves off and get his hands dirty. He's a very committed, hard-working theatre actor so we're just like working any other group of actors in that way. Of course, that's not necessarily how other people see it. A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her and the girl said, "who's Lesley Manville?"
I don't think of myself as old. I feel at the top of my form as an actor and a woman: free, liberated, energised. I want this feeling to stay - I'd quite like to lock it - because I know I'm not what you'd call young but don't feel I'm what you would call old.
I work with people much younger than me who sometimes don't turn up prepared and I find that aggravating and inexcusable. And then in the next sentence, they'll say: "I hope when I'm your age, I have your career," and I feel like saying: "Well, buck up and get your act together a bit more."