Imelda Staunton - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack Imelda Staunton was born on January 9, 1956 in Archway, London, England as Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton. She is an actress, known for Maleficent (2014), Vera Drake (2004) and Chicken Run (2000). She has been married to Jim Carter since October 1983. They have one child. See full bio » Born: a list of 35 people created 02 Jul 2011 a list of 22 people created 29 Sep 2012 a list of 39 people created 19 Jan 2013 a list of 30 people created 01 Jan 2016 a list of 28 people created 15 Jan 2016 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Imelda Staunton's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 24 wins & 32 nominations.

See more awards » Known For 2008 Coming Up (TV Series) Mother 2005 Little Britain (TV Series) Mrs. Mead 2004 Let's Write a Story (TV Series documentary) Mrs. Twit 1999 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) Christine Cooper 1995-1998 Is It Legal? (TV Series) Stella Phelps - Local Government (1995) ... Councillor Johnson - Secrecy (1995) ... Councillor Johnson 1995 Citizen X (TV Movie) Mrs. Burakov 1994 Frank Stubbs (TV Series) Susan 1991 Screen Two (TV Series) The Producer 1986 The Singing Detective (TV Mini-Series) Staff Nurse White - Lovely Days (1986) ... Staff Nurse White - Heat (1986) ... Staff Nurse White - Skin (1986) ... Staff Nurse White 1986 Ladies in Charge (TV Series) Edith 1982 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) Mary Price - Easy Money (1982) ...

Mary Price Hide 1992 Peter's Friends (performer: "The Way You Look Tonight", "Roger's Coffee Commercial Jingle", "Orpheus In the Underworld") Hide 2009 Peace, Love and Cinema (Documentary short) (thanks) Hide 2014 That Musical We Made (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) 2013 The One Show (TV Series) Herself - Guest 2012 The Awakening: Behind the Scenes (Video documentary short) Herself / Maud Hill 2012 The Story of Musicals (TV Series documentary) Herself - Narrator 2010 Natural World (TV Series documentary) Herself - Presenter 2009 Cinema 3 (TV Series) Herself 2005-2009 This Morning (TV Series) Herself 2008 Film 2016 (TV Series) Herself 2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out (TV Movie documentary) Herself 2007 HBO First Look (TV Series documentary) Herself 2005 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) Herself 20

05 Drama Connections (TV Series documentary) Herself 2005 HARDtalk Extra (TV Series) Herself 2005 Richard & Judy (TV Series) Herself 2001 Crush: Behind the Scenes (Video documentary short) Herself / Janine 1996 The Animal Family (TV Movie documentary) Narrator - part 2 (voice) 2014 The One Show (TV Series) Enid 2003 Stephen Fry: Director Documentary (Video documentary short) Lady Brown (uncredited) Stage: Appeared in "A Little Night Music", Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, England, UK.

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See more » Star Sign: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007): original Telegraph review - Telegraph Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007): original Telegraph review The fourth film of JK Rowling's book series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, feels stilted Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Photo: PA By Sukhdev Sandhu 6:00PM GMT 21 Dec 2013 The first film adapted from JK Rowling's Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the three leading characters, was released in 2001. The fourth film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, came out in 2007. The Harry Potter films, even the most fanatical of Hogwarts fans would have to admit, have been hit-and-miss affairs until now.

The first two movie versions, directed by Christopher Columbus with anything but pioneer boldness, were insipid; since then, though, with Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell taking over The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Goblet of Fire, the films have had a much-needed injection of toughness and wit. Toughness is exactly what's needed in putting Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on screen; at nearly 900 pages in length, it needs hacking and pruning skills of the highest order. 17 Dec 2013 Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) kisses Cho Chang (played by Katie Leung) At the start, new director David Yates and new writer Michael Goldenberg work to maintain the dark, almost apocalyptic mood on which The Goblet of Fire ended. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), punished for saving his cousin Dudley from two grey, gothy creatures called Dementors, is threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts, and has to defend himself in front of unsympathetic prosecutors at the subterranean Ministry of Magic. Few there want to believe that Lord Voldemort is back to spread darkness and malignity.

Harry is finally acquitted, but, by the time he returns to school, the Ministry have appointed Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) as a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor who believes in teaching students the theory rather than the practice of magic. A smiling shrew who brooks no dissent, she provokes a secret backlash so that the pupils form a private militia called "Dumbledore's Army" and ready themselves for the mother of all battles that they are rightly sure awaits them. It's a strange thing - especially with all the coverage of Radcliffe's stage debut in the very adult Equus, not to mention the rumours about Emma Watson wanting out of the film series - but both they and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley look younger than ever before, scarcely credible as teenagers a year short of the age of consent. They don't share as much screen time together as they used to, so the attempt to portray them as all-for-one rebels in the final sections of the film falls rather short. The rest of the cast, as always, lay on a series of master classes in the droll superiority of English character acting.

Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Hardy, Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon all offer delicious, if far, far too brief turns. Welcome new arrivals include Helena Bonham Carter, as the deranged cousin of Sirius Black, coming across as the kind of dark-garbed, electric-shocked-hair freak you'd expect to see in a Tim Burton movie. Best of all is Staunton, who, playing Professor Umbridge, puts behind her the mild-mannered dormouse demeanour that she has displayed in films such as Vera Drake. Here, dressed in pink, a smile on her rosy cheeks, nodding constantly as if to signal agreement, she rules Hogwarts like a tyrant, or, as Rowling may well be seeking to imply, a National League Tables inspector. Every time she appears, it's hard to know whether to giggle or hiss. Staunton is actually one of the few high points during a film that feels much longer than it actually is. New character Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) is supposed to be ethereal, but looks and sounds positively tubercular.

Scenes that should be spectacular, such as Harry and the Aurors flying over the Thames, many of London's most famous landmarks whizzing past as they do so, appear cheap. Daniel Radcliffe, left, Rupert Grint, centre, and Emma Watson Most disappointing is the scene in which the Weasley twins let off explosives in an examination invigilated by Umbridge; it should be exhilarating, a modern-day equivalent of the joyous uproar in Vigo's Zéro de Conduite, but it is directed and designed with too little flair. Apparently Yates was hired because of his tremendous handling of the complex and political material in the television series Sex Traffic; but, while there's a lot of complex material here, not least in terms of the other-worldly population of giants, bat-winged horses and weirdy creatures, it's hardly United Nations material. Writer Goldenberg struggles to make the dialogue feel fresh or urgent, so that a boy, speaking of his parent's death, says, "It was rather horrible. I do feel sad about it sometimes", in the same manner he might report mislaying a geography exercise book.

Most of the film feels stilted in this way, unsure whether to make the characters archetypal boarding-school and fantasy-fiction types, or modern, indie-music-listening fans; whether to speckle the darkness with visual gags or to keep the atmosphere solemn; whether to work on maintaining a sense of dread or speed forward to the (actually quite well-handled) face-off between Dumbledore and Voldemort. This uncertainty, combined with an only fitfully explicated back story, made me wonder what someone new to the film series would make of it all. The Order of the Phoenix will, of course, do exceedingly well. Younger viewers, so desperate to lay hands and eyes on anything Hogwarts-related, are hardly going to pick holes. But holes there are - and very big ones, so let's just hope that Yates, who has also been signed up to direct the next film, makes a better job of things next time round. It's hard, though, not to speculate that Warner Brothers would have done well to do the same as the production company behind The Lord of the Rings and hire one director to make the whole Harry Potter series.

That would have been a big commitment, of course, but it would have allowed for a coherence of vision and a better sense of continuity of the kind that Peter Jackson brought to filming the Tolkien trilogy. As it is, Yates's effort feels like a remix rather than a re-imagining of Rowling's book. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Film | The Guardian Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 / 5 stars Friday 13 July 2007 18.44 EDT First published on Friday 13 July 2007 18.44 EDT Share on Messenger Close Harry Potter kissing a girl? Harry Potter getting some osculatory action? Harry Potter ... copping off? Yes, yes and yes. Harry's premier snog is very much the USP of this, the fifth Harry Potter film. Hang on: the fifth? The fifth? Where has the time gone? Eliot's Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons; British film writers measure out theirs by Daniel Radcliffe's growth spurts - made more heartstopping here by flashback glimpses of his teeny, tiny bespectacled self from the first movie, which came out ...

oooh ... surely about 14 months ago. Soon Harry Potter will be actually doing the noisome deed itself, going for trendier glasses at Specsavers, or contact lenses, or zipping over to Moscow for corrective eye surgery; he'll be going on Facebook and going tombstoning every weekend. But, yes, here is the film where Potter gets some serious romance, with fellow Hogwarts scholar Cho Chang, played by Katie Leung - though bafflingly, and rather ungallantly, her character is completely dumped from the action after the snog, and she doesn't even get to be one of his gang of pals who finally confront the lord of all evil in the final reel. Perhaps Harry is not entirely ready to leave the asexual world of childhood after all. His description of the kiss is incidentally the best dialogue exchange in the film. "What was it like?" ask his friends Ron and Hermione. "Wet," replies Harry unselfconsciously, and adding after a nicely judged pause: "She'd been crying." Bafta-winning British director David Yates takes over the reins here, and once again the emphasis on that most over-rated and under-understood concept: dark.

Harry Potter has once again gone dark, and what this means is an exciting and moody opening sequence in which Harry confronts some bullies and then, against all the rules, uses his secret magic powers in front of civilians, or "muggles", to slay some fierce beasts - Dementors. He is persecuted by the authorities for this breach of etiquette, a form of institutional hounding that has its roots in the wicked Voldemort's influence, and Harry himself winds up forming an alternative rebel gang of students who must go it alone to take on the evil forces. The Harry Potter series has become famous, or faintly notorious, for giving work to almost every single British character actor in the Spotlight casting directory, with the exception of Stephen Fry, and he surely is lined up for something in the future. Almost all of them, I have to say, have good-naturedly got stuck into the Hogwarts dressing-up box and then phoned in their performance. But HP newcomer Imelda Staunton is marvellous and genuinely unpleasant as Professor Dolores Umbridge, the creepy new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.

With her glassy, fixed smile, she looks like a cross between Vera Drake and an evil version of the Queen, from her late 1960s period, when she starred in the Royal Family documentary and still did Trooping the Colour on horseback. Professor Umbridge has been forced on the school by the malign apparatchiks of the Ministry of Magic, with a brief to sort things out. She instigates a punitive reign of terror and there is a superb scene in which she makes Harry do lines - a magnificently retrograde imposition - with a special quill. He has to write out the unjust sentiment: "I must not tell lies", a phrase that is magically and agonisingly scratched out in blood on the back of his hand. It's absurd but also very, very nasty: a painfully real case of schoolteacherly bullying. I haven't been so uncomfortable since the beating scene in Kes. And so the Harry Potter saga continues. It's essentially deeply conservative, with battles, and crashes, and giants and explosions and is shaping up to be an extraordinary real-time experiment for Daniel Radcliffe . Plenty of young actors complain that they did their growing up in public. For Radcliffe that is literally true.

When the saga is finally complete, its sheer bulk will be impressive, and we will gasp at Radcliffe's remarkable stamina and maturity in the role: a testing experience for any actor, but one that he has managed without going obviously mad, and with enough wit to send himself up on Ricky Gervais's TV comedy Extras. Will it amount to anything more than just very good family entertainment - or will it assume a lofty Tolkienesque grandeur? I think and hope not. But there are worrying signs that there is really no development from film to film: the actors are all obviously growing up, but there is no substantial increase in maturity in the films themselves, no desire to evoke good and evil in any real way. As I say, that's a relief, on balance. But every time I sit down to a new Harry Potter movie, I'm struck by how very, very similar it is to the previous one - and how forgettable, even disposable, the plot twists are. The new Potter novel comes out on July 21, which will of course sell by the tonne, and finally the movies will catch up with the books. It's an astonishingly successful brand on the page and on the screen.

But I've given up wondering if it's going to be any more than that. Imelda Staunton Biography (Actor) Birthplace: London, England Best known as: The star of the film Vera Drake After nearly three decades of acting in plays, films and TV shows, Imelda Staunton starred in Mike Leigh 's Vera Drake (2004) and suddenly became a front-runner in the Oscar race for Best Actress. On stage she has had starring roles in dramas and musicals, and she turned in award-winning performances in supporting roles in 1985's A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is a Green. On British television she has appeared in movies and the series The Singing Detective (1986), Up the Garden Path (1990) and Murder (2002).

In the movies she's been a reliable character actress in such films as Peter's Friends (1992), Shakespeare in Love (1998, starring Gwyneth Paltrow ) and Crush (2001), and in the 2007 movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Staunton nearly stole the show as pink-cheeked, iron-fisted headmistress Dolores Umbridge. Her other films include Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland (2010, also starring Johnny Depp ) and The Awakening (2011). Extra credit: Staunton has also done voice work for animated features, including 2000’s Chicken Run (she was “Bunty”). Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Movies & TV on Google Play Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix July 2007 Item added to wishlist. Item removed from wishlist. You will receive an email when your movie becomes available. You will not be charged until it is released.

( 3,758) Synopsis A summer has passed since Harry's encounter with the Dark Lord, and Harry returns to learn that the wizarding community remains in denial about Voldemort's return; the minister of magic believes that Headmaster Dumbledore is lying; and a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher has been assigned. Now, with the entire wizard community in peril, the future of magic may depend on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. When the new professor, Dolores Umbridge's (Imelda Staunton--Nanny McPhee, Vera Drake), Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to protect themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community,Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) urge Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) to act. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore's Army," Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts. #WarnerBros #OnDemand #Movie 2 $79.92 $69.99 The Magic Is All Here in the Complete 8-Film Collection.

The collection includes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of A... 2 1 80 Bruce Diones By focussing the story on Harry (a leaner and slightly meaner Daniel Radcliffe) and his exploits, Yates dispenses with many of the novel's subplots and is able to push the story forward, ominously foreshadowing the dark times to come. Wally Hammond Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces. Kyle Smith Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom. Joshua Rothkopf Installment five boosts his [Harry's] rebellion to enjoyable levels of British pique. Richard Roeper We do get terrific work from the all-star British cast, and the special effects are as seamless as ever. Joanne Kaufman Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.

Critic reviews Bruce Diones By focussing the story on Harry (a leaner and slightly meaner Daniel Radcliffe) and his exploits, Yates dispenses with many of the novel's subplots and is able to push the story forward, ominously foreshadowing the dark times to come. Wally Hammond Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces. Full Review Richard Roeper We do get terrific work from the all-star British cast, and the special effects are as seamless as ever. Full Review Joanne Kaufman Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance. Full Review Scott Foundas The darkest and most menacing by far of the five [films, [Phoenix] is also the only series entry outside of the third that feels like the product of a vivid cinematic imagination and not just a slavishly faithful transposition.

User reviews A Google User August 28, 2012 Entertaining, But Weak in Various Areas I'm not one who believes that films adapted from books need to be completely and utterly faithful, but for an adaptation, this film is weak. Granted, the fifth is the longest book in the Potter series, but the amount that Steve Kloves and David Yates cut out of the book when writing the screenplay is atrocious. Well, it's not really the amount as much as it is what exactly they cut out. Sure, the house elf subplot was bound to be cut out, but the St. Mungo's sequence? It is vital to character-building, not to mention able to clear up Arthur Weasley's attack and that he was actually okay. And the final sequence in the Ministry? Really rushed and choppy and just completely botched. That said, the cast of this film produced some of their best work in the series. Imelda Staunton was the true star of the whole thing, and her portrayal of Umbridge was absolutely flawless. Helena Bonham Carter also made a fantastic series debut as the sadistic Belatrix Lestrange. This was by far my least favorite of the Potter films.

It had much more potential than was used. That said, it is still worth watching. It has its exciting moments. Full Review Sam Rothermel April 2, 2014 Order up A terrific adaptation of the longest (and wordiest) of JK Rowling's wizarding book series. It actually ends up being the shortest movie of them all by finding the real themes and points of the book and stating them as simply and eloquently as possible. This makes for another great movie adaptation that doesn't cater to fans but instead does the story a great justice in the film media. New director David Yates brings a lot of new and welcome things to the series (flashbacks and other visual tricks). His use of the newspaper as a quick summary of film events takes less time away from the main plots but makes it easy to follow what's going on. Full Review Zain Hashmi July 20, 2014 Different in many ways My favorite in the series. Its much darker than previous installments. Harry deals with his inner turmoil of the previous events that occurred in Goblet of Fire. Lots of sad and dark moments but also some good fun.

Full Review Lena S April 26, 2014 It's great,but..... I REALLY hate the part when his madness chokes him. (Harry ,I mean). It scared the crap outta me! Full Review Hansung Kim December 30, 2013 Missing a lot of the emotions Some parts were well done, but the dementor attack and the panic and frustration that harry is supposed to feel was missing. First 1\3 of the book was condensed into about 15 min. Lucas Yarger January 17, 2014 Thanks for sharing. The first thing you can get a chance to win the game. Full Review Esse Johnson May 16, 2015 Brilliant The character studies are brilliant (we can all recognize various of them in our midst) both as the children grow and new villains enter the scene. It was intriguing to see the changes in Dumbledor's demeanor and the added complexity of relationship. Magical fun and adventure as always. Timothy Kyrousis October 25, 2016 Plenty of fun But just too long..then became boring.

Full Review Lord Gutierrez February 7, 2014 Director david yates somehow managed to make one of the lesser hp books into one of my personal favorite hp movies.Does it have problems yes,but the stuff that's great is too great This is my 3rd favorite in the series.And it's a magical delight that im sure to see a million more times in the future risTric evil June 27, 2016 Bloody hell Harry Potter is one of my favorite book character now there making movies why not!!!!!! Jo D November 12, 2015 This is my favorite out of all the movies but sirius should not have died Full Review Cameron Sylve July 28, 2015 Perfect I loved you Harry Potter Harry rules Daniel Radcliffe is my favorite actor and the sad part was when voldemort was messing with his mind Full Review Nicole Hunsaker April 26, 2016 Harry potter and the order of Phoenix Harry Potter is excited to start his fifth year at Hogwarts school witchcraft of wizardry where Harry become a teacher.

Full Review A Google User July 30, 2012 Harry potter 5 It is my least favorite but not terrible. I was just not into as nothing grabbed me but it was fine Pure 8 July 15, 2015 No subtitles Such a disappointment! ! I have to stop renting from Google if this continues. .. Nicholas Pike October 4, 2015 Drastically different from the book ... And not for the better. Full Review A Google User April 10, 2012 Omg This book was AMAZING!!!! i am on the deathly hallows and i am oing to be so sad when i am done with the book because this series was the best EVER and i have never read any other good books other than these.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..............so thank you to J.K rowling and the director and the actrs of Harry Potter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jared Beaty January 2, 2015 Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix An awful movie.

Full Review A Google User May 27, 2012 Addicted to Harry Potter everthing <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3< 3 <3 <3 I have WAY more hearts in my head! Full Review T Butler March 12, 2016 Must get I've read 1-4 and I am overly excited to read the next and I know that it will be as good as the other ones...or possibly (most likely) better...I highly recommend you to start or finish the sires.. Full Review A Google User November 3, 2011 Great! Not as good as I thought it would be, but my toddler loves Harry Potter! I'm buying the movie from eBay, so she can watch it all the time, any time. :) Full Review A Google User April 21, 2012 Eli This movie is magical and I am on deathly hallows book and it is awosme and I like the end at the ministry of magic!!!!!!:-D Full Review Nevaeh Brown April 10, 2015 Good!

Most definitely my favorite!But I hate that in my favorite movie one of my favorite characters ( Siruis Black) dies! Full Review Adarsh Rallabandi August 25, 2015 Amazing Movie Just like the books! It's like a copy. They didn't change much, but seriously, if you love the books, you'll love the movies Armieta the Koala August 13, 2013 Never again It didnt even load. Im never buying that again. Marcus Delgado May 16, 2016 Teen angst Somber but one of the better ones in the series Peyton Stafford May 22, 2015 Does this even need a description? I mean, it's Harry Potter!!! Full Review Travis Vercher January 2, 2017 WHERE IS MY HD QUALITY? IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS STREAMED FROM THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE TO MY COMPUTER THROUGH 8 DIFFERENT ETHERNET SPLITTERS!!!!

I ORDERED IT IN HD AND IT LOOKS LIKE ITS ONLY 360P Full Review Online Whale Awards November 16, 2015 Order of the Phoenix is one of the shortest movies in the series but it sure doesn't feel like it. Phoenix is a good teen film with a heartwarming ending and great performances from the teen cast once again. Full Review love sasha February 21, 2014 Amazing! Great movie except for the part when Voldemort goes into Harry and he starts to get all confused with his memory and looses control of his mind. But then he takes control of his mind and memories and the rest of his mind. LOVED IT! ;-) Tim Hood July 18, 2014 Harry potter How can it be pg13 if it was on abcfamily cause it was pg Rebecca Wiley June 25, 2015 The was my least fav. Book but the movie was done well.

Abbygail Amon August 4, 2014 cool but i do not like umbridge or filch but so sad when harry's god father dies Tristan Sherritt March 26, 2014 I wish I could see it I've only seen 1 2 and 3 Full Review Dan Williams November 28, 2015 Harry potter and the order of the phoenix This movie was absolutely amazing. Great picture and sound definitely gonna watch it again.This is my third favorite movie in the series. The director did an amazing job Tyler Weller January 8, 2015 Harry potter If u read this get it or u will die Full Review JEANNE MAY SMITH August 17, 2015 The Best! Jo Rowling manages to grip the readers attention again in the 5th installment in the Harry Potter series and the Director and Producer manages to entertain the Harry Potter fans all over again! This is an amazing movie!! Wesley Loveless November 10, 2015 Gloversville, New York 12078 Thank you !!

Enrique Najera April 11, 2014 It isolay too:/...but alot of action:) Christopher Jackson November 27, 2013 Doesn't play on my phone! Sad about this Imelda Staunton | The Harry Potter Compendium | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit 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 ), Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), Shakespeare in File:Odfestudiohq 25252824252529.jpg 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. Alongside David Tennant she reprised her antagonist role as the voice of Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! Personal life Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton O.B.E, 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 . External links Full Harry Potter 5 DVD Press Release - ComingSoon.net Full Harry Potter 5 DVD Press Release September 18, 2007 SHARE In addition to the covers we previously posted , Warner Home Video has sent out this official press release regarding the December 11 release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD: The rebellion begins in Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts and no Muggle will want to miss the excitement when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix arrives on DVD this December 11th from Warner Home Video.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lord Voldemort has returned but the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth – including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Darks Arts professor at Hogwarts. When Umbridge refuses to teach practical defensive magic, Ron and Hermione convince Harry to secretly train a select group of students for the wizarding war that lies ahead. A terrifying showdown between good and evil awaits in this enthralling film version of the fifth novel in J.K. Rowling’s series. Prepare for battle!

From acclaimed director David Yates (BBC’s State of Play, Upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix brings back the ensemble cast including Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter series, upcoming December Boys), Emma Watson (Harry Potter series) and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter series, Driving Lessons) as well as two-time Academy Award Winner Maggie Smith (Gosford Park, A Room With A View, Harry Potter film series), Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Howards End), Academy Award Nominee Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List, The English Patient), Alan Rickman (Love Actually, Die Hard, Harry Potter film series), and Gary Oldman (Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix also introduces Academy Award Nominees Helena Bonham Carter (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake, Freedom Writers).

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be available for sell-through pricing on Single Disc in widescreen and full frame formats for $28.98 SRP and on 2-Disc Special Edition DVD in widescreen format for $34.99 SRP. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will also be available on HD/DVD Combo for $35.99 SRP and on Blu-ray disc for $35.99 SRP. Muggles and wizards alike will also enjoy a Harry Potter Limited Edition DVD Gift Set, also available December 11th. The 12-disc Limited Edition Gift Set comes in a magnificent collectible ‘suitcase’, and includes two-disc editions of all five Harry Potter films – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — and, for the first time on DVD, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The Harry Potter Limited Edition DVD Gift Set will be available in Standard Definition for $119.97 SRP and on HD DVD and Blu-ray for $149.99 SRP.

SYNOPSIS In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts only to discover that much of the wizarding community has been led to believe that the story of the teenager’s recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort is a lie, putting Harry’s integrity in question. Worse, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, has appointed a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the duplicitous Professor Dolores Umbridge. But Professor Umbridge’s “Ministry-approved” course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the Dark Forces threatening them, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry is convinced to take matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves “Dumbledore’s Army,” Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead. DVD ELEMENTS — The 2-Disc Special Edition DVD contains the following special features: — Additional Scenes: 17 minutes of never-before-seen footage.

— Trailing Tonks – Spend a day with Actress Nat Tena and receive a very personal and often wacky tour of the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix stages. — Harry Potter: The Magic of Editing – Director David Yates and Editor Mark Day show what a difference a good edit makes to allow the viewers to edit a scene. — A&E Documentary: The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter – Viewers take a thrilling look back at the past Harry Potter films in search of clues to the mysteries of the upcoming Harry Potter saga. — ROM – This will include a timeline, a link to sneaks of HP6, along with other materials. — The HD/DVD combo contains the following special features: — Additional Scenes: 17 minutes of never-before-seen footage. — Trailing Tonks – Spend a day with Actress Nat Tena and receive a very personal and often wacky tour of the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix stages. — In Movie Experience – Join the cast from Dumbledore’s Army as they come together to share memorable moments. — Harry Potter: The Magic of Editing – Director David Yates and Editor Mark Day show what a difference a good edit makes to allow the viewers to edit a scene.

— Web-Enabled Features: — Pick Your Favorite Scene – Assemble favorite clips from the movie to create a montage. — Live Community Screening – Viewers can create, organize, and invite their buddies to their very own screening. — Mobile Downloads – Viewers can scan and select cool images and ringtones to send to their mobile phones. — The Blu-ray disc contains the following special features: — Additional Scenes: 17 minutes of never-before-seen footage. — A&E documentary: The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter – Viewers take a thrilling look back at the past Harry Potter films in search of clues to the mysteries of the upcoming Harry Potter saga. — Trailing Tonks – Spend a day with Actress Nat Tena and receive a very personal and often wacky tour of the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix stages. — Focus Points – Enjoy these fun and fascinating “making of” featurettes to discover just what is involved to create those amazing scenes and characters. — Harry Potter: The Magic of Editing – Director David Yates and Editor Mark Day show what a difference a good edit makes to allow the viewers to edit a scene.

— The Limited Edition Gift Set contains the following additions: — Hogwarts Challenge – A bonus disc containing a unique interactive DVD gaming experience with 14 adventure games based on the first three Harry Potter films, and containing clips from the fourth and fifth films. — Bonus materials – A bonus disc containing more than three hours of all-new content from the past Harry Potter films. — Collectibles: — The Harry Potter Bookmark Collection – Five unique souvenir metal bookmarks made especially for this gift set — Harry Potter Trading Cards – Collect them all with these four packages containing cards from the first four films BASICS Single disc Amaray (WS) $28.98 Single disc Amaray (FS) $28.98 2-disc Special Edition (WS) $34.99 HD/DVD Combo $35.99 Street Date: December 11, 2007 Languages: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, ESDH, French, Spanish Running Time: 138 minutes Rating: Rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images. DLBY/SURR DLBY/DGTL (CC) THE CREDITS With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros.

Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video’s film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment. Imelda Staunton - Biography - IMDb Imelda Staunton Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (22) | Personal Quotes (17) Overview (3) Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton Height 5' (1.52 m) Mini Bio (1) Imelda Staunton was born on January 9, 1956 in Archway, London, England as Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton. She is an actress, known for Maleficent (2014), Vera Drake (2004) and Chicken Run (2000). She has been married to Jim Carter since October 1983. They have one child.

Spouse (1) (October 1983 - present) (1 child) Trivia (22) An only child, she attended La Sainte Union Convent, a convent school in the north of London. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1986 (1985 season) for Best Performance in a Supporting a Role for "A Chorus of Disapproval" and "The Corn is Green". She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1991 (1990 season) for Best Actress in a Musical for "Into the Woods". She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Musical of the 1996 season for her performance in "Guys and Dolls". She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is Green. Became an Associate Member of RADA. Graduated from RADA.

She won the "Coppa Volpi" award for her performance in Vera Drake (2004) at the 2004 Venice Film Festvial. The movie "Vera Drake" also won the "Gold Lion" award for the best movie at the same event. She said that her idols are Bette Davis , Vivien Leigh , and Maya Angelou . Daughter, Bessie Carter , born in November 1993. Her talent agent is the mother of Freddie Highmore . One of 112 invitees to join AMPAS in 2005. She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama. Turned down a recurring role in Desperate Housewives (2004). Offered a role in Bewitched (2005). At 14, she played Polly Peachum in a school production of the musical "The Beggar's Opera". Has a beautiful singing voice, heard in the film Peter's Friends (1992). Appears with her husband Jim Carter in Cranford (2007).

Won the Olivier Award as Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in "Sweeney Todd" (2013). Has just begun filming her role as "Dolores Jane Umbridge" in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). [February 2006] She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama. She is an actress in London, England. Personal Quotes (17) I go up for a job, someone else gets it, what can I do about that? That might be in another league to me, people being competitive. But it's not like running a race. I'm not against anyone. I think that's a much more American thing, that. We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think, "I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people". Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations. [on working with Mike Leigh in Vera Drake (2004)] He's the nicest . . .

because he works so hard, and I think he expects other people to work hard. And in my book, that's enough. We don't roll into rehearsal at 10:30 and have coffee. We start at 8:00 a.m., we finish at 8 o'clock at night. I mean, you don't want to dither around him. And I think that's fine. I think he's entitled to say what he wants and what he doesn't want. He knows a lot about it. He doesn't have to be nice if he doesn't want to, just to be charming. Well, my parents were working people. You just worked. I've always wanted a long career, not an instant one. I left RADA [Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts], I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and came to the National Theatre. What's better than that? I don't know what's better than that. "Oh, but surely you wanted to be a big film star when you were 21?" No, because I would've been rubbish. Because I spent a lot of time in rep being OK, being very bad, and then being quite good.

And I could practice my craft. You know, being exposed that early, to be brilliant in your first job, where do you go from there? It's given me time, which is a luxury. [on her view about abortion, something she's been asked a lot after her role in Vera Drake (2004)] I'm not Susan Sarandon . I don't want to bang a drum. I think I'm just going to say, "I'm pro-choice" and leave it at that. I am a character actress, well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts. You know you can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me. I reached the point now, where I have become as comfortable on a movie set as I am on stage. Before, I was trying to figure it out, how much should I emote, where should I stand? But now I know more about the camera, and what goes into the mix, technically. I'm much more comfortable doing film now. [what she thinks about celebrities getting free gifts at award shows] It's obscene, isn't it? Just ridiculous. We don't need any of these things!

Give it to people who need it. I'll never have to buy moisturizer again. I might start eating it soon. All my heroes- Timothy Spall , Lesley Manville --are just so brilliant. And I thought, "Well, I'm not in that league". As Vera Drake, I feel Mike [director Mike Leigh ] has used all of me as a dramatic actress, in a positive sense. As you well know, we don't have a script when we're shooting. But after the film, the screenplay gets published and you can read the whole thing. Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. [on Vera Drake (2004)] You don't have a script, so we prepared that film for six months and then filmed it for three and a bit months. Nothing is improvised on film but for me I created with Mike [director Mike Leigh ] that woman literally from the day she was born, so I know everything about her life. And of course we can't do it in every job because there is not the time, because most films you literally get the script, you learn it immediately and you turn up and you just do it.

Which, with a lot of the work I do, that's plenty of preparation. But for something like that--and I'd never worked with him before--and it was a real eye-opener. And to have that happen to me in a time when--I hope--was the middle of my career, it was like going back to drama school and starting all over again. (On Vera Drake (2004)) [on her role of Alfred Hitchcock 's wife Alma Reville in The Girl (2012)] Alma was very tolerant. She mothered Hitchcock, because he was like a bloody child. He was a bloody idiot with Tippi [ Tippi Hedren . People should have told him, "Just make the bloody film and go home". [on Alfred Hitchcock ] But he was delusional. People say he was vulnerable--oh, for goodness sake, don't be mealy-mouthed about it! He just needed to grow up--that may sound unkind, but it's realistic. There again, if he had grown up, he wouldn't have been such a brilliant filmmaker. All his many flaws made him the great director he was.

We actors are like children--all you have to do is feed and encourage us, and we'll be fine. That controlling animus has gone. No director treats us badly anymore. In fact, they should put that in the end credits of The Girl (2012): "No actor has been harmed in the making of this movie". See also Imelda Staunton | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] Career 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 ), Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), Shakespeare in Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge 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. Alongside David Tennant she reprised her antagonist role as the voice of Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! Personal life Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton O.B.E, 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 . External links

Question: Who starred as Vera Drake on TV, and as Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: IMELDA STAUNTON