Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter married in 1983 and share one daughter. Here’s everything to know about the actors’ relationship. ... Emma Kershaw is a contributing writer at PEOPLE.

I first knew her in Much Ado About Nothing, where she played a maid to Emma Thompson and acquaintance of Kenneth Branagh years before the three were Professors Umbridge, Trelawney, and Lockhart.

Imelda Staunton and her daughter Bessie Carter: ... she had grown up in a north London house frequented by Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Hugh Laurie. “How could you dissuade, ...