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, ...

Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter married in 1983 and share one daughter. ... Emma Kershaw is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Dame Imelda Staunton won a fifth Olivier, and US actor John Lithgow took aim at the Trump administration, as he picked up an honour at the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards. Harry Potter and ...

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, ...