Celia Imrie

Malevolent (2018)

As: Mrs. Green

A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

Stars: Celia Imrie | Ben Lloyd-Hughes | Florence Pugh | Scott Chambers | Georgina Bevan

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (2018)

As: Vice-Chancellor

On the Greek island of Kalokairi, the daughter of Donna Sheridan, Sophie, finds out more about her mother's past while seeking guidance on how to handle her pregnancy.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Ol Parker

Stars: Dominic Cooper | Christine Baranski | Amanda Seyfried | Julie Walters | Lily James

Finding Your Feet (2017)

As: Bif

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Richard Loncraine

Stars: Timothy Spall | Celia Imrie | Joanna Lumley | Imelda Staunton | David Hayman

Happy Family (2017)

As: Cheyenne (voice)

The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a Vampire, a Mummy, a Werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her Monster Family ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Holger Tappe

Stars: Emily Watson | Jason Isaacs | Celia Imrie | Nick Frost | Jessica Brown Findlay

A Cure for Wellness (2017)

As: Victoria Watkins

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

Runtime: 146 min.

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Stars: Jason Isaacs | Celia Imrie | Dane DeHaan | Mia Goth | Adrian Schiller

Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

As: Una Alconbury

Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Sharon Maguire

Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Patrick Dempsey | Gemma Jones | Jim Broadbent

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

As: Claudia Bing

Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Mandie Fletcher

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Jennifer Saunders | Jane Horrocks | June Whitfield | Julia Sawalha

The Man Who Married Himself (2015)

As: Mother

Runtime: 13 min.

Directed by: Garrick Hamm

Stars: Emilia Fox | Celia Imrie | Richard E. Grant | Warren Clarke | Malcolm Rogers

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

As: Madge Hardcastle

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Maggie Smith | Dev Patel | Richard Gere | Bill Nighy | Judi Dench

Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014)

This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols and of course Archie the donkey! When their new teacher Mr. Shepherd loses his memory and forgets all about Christmas, as well as his fiancée Sophie and the whereabouts of the beloved Archie, it's up to the ...

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Debbie Isitt

Stars: Martin Clunes | Marc Wootton | Jason Watkins | Catherine Tate | Susie Blake

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)

As: Agnes Chisolm

Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Guy Jenkin | Andy Hamilton

Stars: Rosamund Pike | Billy Connolly | Amelia Bullmore | David Tennant | Ben Miller

The Love Punch (2013)

As: Penelope

Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Joel Hopkins

Stars: Emma Thompson | Pierce Brosnan | Timothy Spall | Tuppence Middleton | Celia Imrie

My Angel (2011)

As: The Librarian

Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother Stewart end up having to take care of themselves and one night when they have ran out of food and electricity, Eddie dreams that his mother asks him to find an angel's halo so that she can be saved. Will Eddie be able to save his mother in time for Christmas?

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Stephen Cookson

Stars: Timothy Spall | Celia Imrie | Brenda Blethyn | Jassa Ahluwalia | Isaac Stanmore

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

As: Madge Hardcastle

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Maggie Smith | Tom Wilkinson | Dev Patel | Bill Nighy | Judi Dench

Lost Connection (2010)

As: Mum

David's 29th birthday also happens to be the day of his father's funeral. When David discovers that he shares that birthday with a Hollywood star, it begins to feel like his life is a series of missed opportunities. But that self-obsession threatens to destroy his relationships with his unemotional mother and disabled teenage sister when they need him the most.

Runtime: 23 min.

Directed by: James Keaton

Stars: Celia Imrie | Stephen Fry | Ralph Haddon | Brian Hallworth | Jemma Hines

The Road to Coronation Street (2010)

As: Doris Speed

The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.

Runtime: 75 min.

Directed by: Charles Sturridge

Stars: Celia Imrie | Jane Horrocks | Shaun Dooley | Jessie Wallace | David Dawson

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

As: Enid Wicklow

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Anthony Hopkins | Josh Brolin | Gemma Jones | Pauline Collins | Naomi Watts

St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)

As: Matron

The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Oliver Parker | Barnaby Thompson

Stars: Talulah Riley | Colin Firth | Gemma Arterton | Rupert Everett | David Tennant

St. Trinian's (2007)

As: Hausmutter

When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Oliver Parker | Barnaby Thompson

Stars: Talulah Riley | Colin Firth | Lena Headey | Gemma Arterton | Rupert Everett

Wah-Wah (2006)

As: Lady Riva Hardwick

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14. The film is largely based on Richard E. Grant's own experiences as a teenager in Swaziland, where his father was head of education for the British government administration.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Richard E. Grant

Stars: Miranda Richardson | Emily Watson | Nicholas Hoult | Gabriel Byrne | Julie Walters

Acorn Antiques: The Musical (2006)

As: Miss Babs

Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End production brought together Julie Walters (Mrs Overall), Celia Imrie (Miss Babs) and Duncan Preston (Mr Clifford) - the original cast of the series. It was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn ("Les Miserables", "Woman in White", "Starlight Express") and written ...

Runtime: 157 min.

Directed by: Trevor Nunn

Stars: Josie Lawrence | Celia Imrie | Julie Walters | Neil Morrissey | Duncan Preston

The Lavender List (2006)

As: Mary Wilson

A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marcia Williams

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Colin Barr

Stars: Kenneth Cranham | Celia Imrie | Gina McKee | Neil Dudgeon | Dominic Rowan

Nanny McPhee (2005)

As: Mrs. Quickly

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Kirk Jones

Stars: Colin Firth | Emma Thompson | Eliza Bennett | Kelly Macdonald | Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Imagine Me & You (2005)

As: Tessa

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Ol Parker

Stars: Lena Headey | Celia Imrie | Matthew Goode | Piper Perabo | Darren Boyd

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

As: Una Alconbury

Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Beeban Kidron

Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent

Wimbledon (2004)

As: Lydice Kenwood

A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Richard Loncraine

Stars: Bernard Hill | James McAvoy | Paul Bettany | Kirsten Dunst | Sam Neill

Out of Bounds (2003)

As: Doctor Imogen Reed

Louise (Sophia Myles) is an alienated boarding school student in the midst of a hot and heavy affair with the husband of her headmistress, Veronica (Sophie Ward). Suspicion and passion hang in the air of the isolated campus until Matthew (George Asprey) suddenly disappears. Fearing the worst, Louise struggles to uncover what happened to her lover, but is foiled at every turn by Veronica, who begins to take ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Merlin Ward

Stars: Celia Imrie | Michael Elphick | Sophia Myles | Richard Huw | Julia Barrie

Calendar Girls (2003)

As: Celia

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Nigel Cole

Stars: Helen Mirren | Linda Bassett | Julie Walters | John Alderton | Annette Crosbie

The Planman (2003)

As: Gail Forrester

A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.

Runtime: 180 min.

Directed by: John Strickland

Stars: Vincent Regan | Celia Imrie | Robbie Coltrane | Neil Dudgeon | John McGlynn

A Is For Acid (2002)

As: Rose Henderson

John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatisation

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Harry Bradbeer

Stars: Celia Imrie | Martin Clunes | Keeley Hawes | Rowena Cooper | Richard Hope

Heartlands (2002)

As: Sonja

Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Damien O'Donnell

Stars: Mark Strong | Mark Addy | Michael Sheen | Celia Imrie | Jim Carter

Thunderpants (2002)

As: Miss Rapier

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Peter Hewitt

Stars: Celia Imrie | Rupert Grint | Simon Callow | Stephen Fry | Bruce Cook

The Gathering Storm (2002)

As: Violet Pearman

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Richard Loncraine

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Lena Headey | Albert Finney | Jim Broadbent | Linus Roache

Station Jim (2001)

As: Miss Frazier

At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Roberts

Stars: George Cole | Charlie Creed-Miles | John Thomson | Martin Savage | Harry Peacock

Lucky Break (2001)

As: Amy

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival ...

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Peter Cattaneo

Stars: James Nesbitt | Timothy Spall | Olivia Williams | Christopher Plummer | Bill Nighy

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

As: Una Alconbury

A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Sharon Maguire

Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent

A Christmas Carol (1999)

As: Mrs Bennett

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: David Hugh Jones

Stars: Richard E. Grant | Ian McNeice | Patrick Stewart | Joel Grey | Saskia Reeves

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

As: Fighter Pilot Bravo 5

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

Runtime: 136 min.

Directed by: George Lucas

Stars: Natalie Portman | Ewan McGregor | Liam Neeson | Ian McDiarmid | Jake Lloyd

Hilary and Jackie (1998)

As: Iris Du Pré

The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Anand Tucker

Stars: Emily Watson | James Frain | David Morrissey | Rachel Griffiths | Charles Dance

The Borrowers (1997)

As: Homily Clock

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks ...

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Peter Hewitt

Stars: Tom Felton | Celia Imrie | John Goodman | Jim Broadbent | Mark Williams

Into the Blue (1997)

As: Nadine Cunningham

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's ...

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Jack Gold

Stars: Miles Anderson | Matthew Marsh | John Thaw | Kevork Malikyan | Andreas Karras

A Very Open Prison (1995)

As: Victoria Bridgewater

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor

Runtime: 55 min.

Directed by: Guy Jenkin

Stars: Ronald Pickup | Emily Mortimer | Tom Wilkinson | Peter Wingfield | Stephen Tompkinson

A Midwinter's Tale (1995)

As: Fadge

Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Michael Maloney | Jennifer Saunders | Richard Briers | Joan Collins | Nicholas Farrell

The Return of the Native (1994)

As: Susan Nunsuch

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Jack Gold

Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Ray Stevenson | Clive Owen | Joan Plowright

Frankenstein (1994)

As: Mrs. Moritz

Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Robert De Niro | Aidan Quinn | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hulce

Pat and Margaret (1994)

Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat, a glamorous British born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain, fat and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both sisters highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories ...

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Gavin Millar

Stars: Celia Imrie | Julie Walters | Thora Hird | Victoria Wood | Duncan Preston

Thacker (1992)

As: Ann Hadon Smith

A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of ...

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Richard Spence

Stars: Leslie Phillips | Graham Crowden | Margaret Tyzack | Freda Dowie | Stephen Moore

Blue Black Permanent (1992)

As: Barbara Thorburn

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Margaret Tait

Stars: Gerda Stevenson | Jack Shepherd | Celia Imrie | James Fleet | Sean Scanlan

Murder on the Moon (1989)

As: Patsy Diehl

After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Stars: Brian Cox | Gerald McRaney | Julian Sands | Brigitte Nielsen | Jane Lapotaire

Highlander (1986)

As: Kate MacLeod

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Russell Mulcahy

Stars: Clancy Brown | Sean Connery | Christopher Lambert | Beatie Edney | Roxanne Hart

The Wicked Lady (1983)

As: Servant at Inn

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Michael Winner

Stars: Faye Dunaway | Prunella Scales | Alan Bates | Denholm Elliott | John Gielgud

The Nightmare Man (1981)

As: Fiona Patterson

A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Douglas Camfield

Stars: Celia Imrie | Tom Watson | Maurice Roeves | James Warwick | Jonathan Newth

House of Whipcord (1974)

As: Barbara

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Pete Walker

Stars: Sheila Keith | Barbara Markham | Patrick Barr | Ray Brooks | Ann Michelle