THE SPACE WITH IMELDA STAUNTON (AND AN AUDIENCE Q&A)
Doors 19:00, starts 19:45
At Horatio’s Bar, Brighton Palace Pier
(and Audience Q and A’s)
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Imelda Staunton is among the UK’s most renowned actresses, known for a wide range of roles in the theatre, television and film. Of thirteen Olivier Awards’ nominations, she won four and has been nominated for five BAFTAs, winning for Vera Drake, directed by Mike Leigh. The title role saw her receiving an Oscar nomination, too. Imelda’s other appearances onscreen includes twenty episodes of The Crown, portraying the Queen to much acclaim.Her other film appearances include Harry Potter, as Delores Umbridge, Shakespeare in Love, Sense and Sensibility, Pride, Maleficent, and Mike Leigh’s Another Year, as well as Bright Young Things, directed by Stephen Fry, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenneth Branagh. She also provided the voices of Aunt Lucy and Bunty in the Paddington and Chicken Run films, respectively. And for television, also, Imelda has starred in The Singing Detective, Downton Abbey, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and Psychoville. Her extensive and highly acclaimed work onstage includes the musicals The Beggar’s Opera, Guys and Dolls, for two revivals, The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale, and by Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods, Follies and Sweeney Todd, alongside Michael Ball. The many plays she starred in include The Corn is Green, Entertaining Mr Sloane and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.