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Celia Imrie

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Celia Imrie
The fourth in the series of British romantic comedies.
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Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress, a Variety magazine 'Icon' and Women in Film and Television 'Lifetime Achievement award' winner. As well as her acclaimed film, television and theatre work, she is also a Sunday Times best-selling author. Celia is much loved for her film roles including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film series, The Bridget Jones film series, Calendar Girls, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Finding Your Feet and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Most recent film work include Mrs Green in independent horror feature, Malevolent and Joan Erikson in Year By The Sea.

Television roles include, Phyllis in Pamela Adlon's semi-autobiographical comedy Better things, Kettle in Sky Atlantic and Showtime's Patrick Melrose, Vera in Barbara Vine's A Dark Adapted Eye and Maggie Pit in unconventional comedy Hang Ups.

Celia also has an extensive list of theatre credits and she has performed in many of London's major theatres. These include, Tony and Olivier Award winning comedy Noises Off at The Old Vic Theatre, Acorn Antiques: The Musical! at Theatre Royal Haymarket in which Celia won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2005, The Sea at The National Theatre opposite Dame Judi Dench and the universally acclaimed production of King Lear at the Old Vic in 2016.

Celia will soon take to the stage in Party Time/Celebration, the sixth double-bill of one-act plays in The Jamie Lloyd Company's Pinter at the Pinter Season, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter.
BornJuly 15, 1952
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BornJuly 15, 1952
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000691
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Known for

    Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, and Dev Patel in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    7.2
    • Madge Hardcastle
    • 2011
    Piper Perabo, Darren Boyd, Matthew Goode, and Lena Headey in Imagine Me & You (2005)
    Imagine Me & You
    6.8
    • Tessa
    • 2005
    Helen Mirren, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Georgie Glen, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, and Julie Walters in Calendar Girls (2003)
    Calendar Girls
    6.9
    • Celia
    • 2003
    Nanny McPhee (2005)
    Nanny McPhee
    6.6
    • Mrs Quickly
    • 2005

    Credits

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    Actress



    • Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures
      • Doctor Kessica Myles (voice)
      • Released
      • Podcast Series
      • 2025
    • The Thursday Murder Club
      • Joyce
      • Completed
      • 2025
    • The Inn at the Edge of the World
      • Mrs. H
      • Pre-production
    • Genuine Fakes
      • Madame Giselle
      • Pre-production
    • The Temptation of Gracie
      • Pre-production



    • Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures (2003)
      Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures
      8.8
      Podcast Series
      • Doctor Kessica Myles (voice)
      • 2025
    • Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Leo Woodall in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
      Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
      6.6
      • Una
      • 2025
    • A Ghost Story for Christmas (2005)
      A Ghost Story for Christmas
      6.9
      TV Series
      • E. Nesbit
      • 2024
    • Keri Russell in The Diplomat (2023)
      The Diplomat
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Margaret Roylin
      • 2023–2024
    • Down, Down, Down (2024)
      Down, Down, Down
      Short
      • Sylvia
      • 2024
    • Good Grief (2023)
      Good Grief
      6.4
      • Imelda
      • 2023
    • Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan in Love Again (2023)
      Love Again
      5.9
      • Gina Valentine
      • 2023
    • Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn (2023)
      Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn
      6.9
      Podcast Series
      • 2023
    • Óscar Barberán, Ana Esther Alborg, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joe Thomas, Santiago Winder, and Jaume Solà in Mummies (2023)
      Mummies
      5.9
      • Mother (English version, voice)
      • 2023
    • Juliet Cowan, Celia Imrie, Cat White, Delroy Brown, and Joshua Williams in Fifty-Four Days (2022)
      Fifty-Four Days
      7.9
      Short
      • Gloria
      • 2022
    • David Warner and Celia Imrie in Shilling and Sixpence Investigate - In Loving Memory (2022)
      Shilling and Sixpence Investigate - In Loving Memory
      Podcast Series
      • Lavinia Sixpence
      • 2022
    • Dexter Sol Ansell, Delilah O'Riordan, Evan Scott, Faith Delaney, Madison Davis, and Scott Garnham in Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022)
      Christmas on Mistletoe Farm
      4.5
      • Miss Womble
      • 2022
    • Pamela Adlon in Better Things (2016)
      Better Things
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Phyllis
      • 2016–2022
    • Adam Lopez in Short Adam (2021)
      Short Adam
      8.8
      TV Series
      • Bethanie Brixton
      • 2021
    • Lily James in Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2021)
      Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • Malabelle
      • 2021

    Soundtrack



    • Diminishing Returns (2016)
      Diminishing Returns
      3.0
      Podcast Series
      • performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher"
      • 2018
    • Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Cher, Andy Garcia, Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy Irvine, Alexa Davies, Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, and Josh Dylan in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
      Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
      6.6
      • performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher"
      • 2018

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    Imagine Me & You
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    Trailer 2:32
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    Final Trailer
    Trailer 0:46
    Final Trailer
    Official Trailer
    Trailer 2:47
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    • Height
      • 5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
    • Born
      • July 15, 1952
      • Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
    • Children
      • Angus Imrie
    • Parents
        Diana Elizabeth Blois
    • Other works
      Reader of the ISIS unabridged audio books for the following "Discworld" novels by Terry Pratchett: "Equal Rites" (1995) and "Wyrd Sisters" (1996).
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Print Biography
      • 1 Article
      • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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    • Trivia
      When Imrie was fourteen, she was admitted to the Royal Waterloo Hospital suffering from anorexia nervosa. Under the care of controversial psychiatrist William Sargant, she was given electroshock and large doses of the anti-psychotic drug Largactil. Imrie has written that Sargant still features in her nightmares.
    • Quotes
      Discussing her character in 'Wah-Wah': A friend of mine came to see a screening and said, 'Ceels, I was longing for you to suddenly become funny. And you didn't'. I said, 'I know, it's quite weird isn't it?' Originally Richard offered me another part but I said, 'yes, but what about this old bag?'
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        Impressively muscular arms

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