Imelda Staunton was born in 1956. She was born and raised in England. Her full name is Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton. However, she is commonly referred to as Imelda Staunton. She began her career in 1976 after studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Imelda is a successful English actress with a net worth of $10 million. She was born in Arway, London, England, in January 1956, and she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting in cinema and on stage.

Staunton has received four Olivier Awards, including three for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Gypsy. She played Izzy on Up the Garden Path from 1990 to 1993.

From 1995 until 1998, Staunton played Stella Phelps on the TV show Is It Legal? She has also appeared in Cranford, Big and Small episodes, and Psychoville. Imelda has appeared in films such as Sense & Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare in Love, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Pride, Vera Drake, and others.

In 2005, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her outstanding performance in Vera Drake.

Early life and education

Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of hairdresser Bridie (née McNicholas) and laborer Joseph Staunton. They were living above Staunton’s mother’s salon. Her parents were first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants from County Mayo; her father was from Ballyvary, while her mother was from Bohola.

Bridie was an outlandish musician who could play practically any melody on the accordion and had performed in Irish showbands.

Staunton studied acting with her elocution professor at La Sainte Convent and enacted in school productions, including the part of Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera. She auditioned for theater schools after being encouraged by her teacher and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at 18.

She also tried out unsuccessfully for the Central School of Speech and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Career

Imelda’s film career began in 1986, and she spent nearly ten years in television productions. Imelda became visible to feature film audiences in Peter’s Friends, Sense and Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and Shakespeare in Love, after solid performances in telefilms such as A Masculine Ending,

A Sleeping Life, and series such as Thompson and Up the Garden Path (for which she shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast). Imelda garnered Golden Globe, Academy, and BAFTA nominations for her performance in Vera Drake (2004) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

She has also done a variety of voice productions, including Chicken Run (2000), The Ugly Duckling (1997), Arthur Christmas (2011), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012). She also appeared in the 2012 British horror film The Awakening and the Disney film Maleficent (2014).

In 2018, she starred in Paddington 2. In 2019, she reunited with her husband, Jim Carter (who plays Carson, the butler) and the rest of the cast from the TV series Downton Abbey on the big screen in the sequel Downton Abbey (2019), as well as reprising her role in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).

Relationship

Jim Carter is Imelda Staunton’s husband. Jim Carter is a well-known actor born in the United Kingdom on August 19, 1948. Then, in October 1983, he married Imelda Staunton, and they had a happy family. Transformers: The Last Knight, released in 2017; Shakespeare in Love, released in 1998. And others are among his most famous films.