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 Birth Date: July 15, 1952
Birth Place: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Celia Imrie is perhaps best known for her performances in Victoria Wood's highly acclaimed series As Seen on TV, Dinnerladies and the award-winning BBC film Pat and Margaret. She has also appeared in Ruth Rendell's A Dark Adapted Eye, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Riff-Raff Element, Wokenwell, Mr White Goes to Westminster, The Canterville Ghost, the role of Lady Groan in BBC TV's Gormenghast, Aunt Sadie in Love in a Cold Climate, Station Jim and A Gathering Storm for HBO and Daniel Deronda. Recently she has filmed Zhivago for Granada Films in Prague, Sally Wainwright's Sparkhouse for Red Productions and The Plan Man with Robbie Coltrane for Ideal World.
Her feature film credits include Highlander; The House of Whipcord; Murder on the Moon; The Harmfulness of Tobacco - which won the 1991 BAFTA Award for the Best Short Film - Blue Black Permanent; Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein and In the Bleak Mid Winter; The Borrowers; the role of Iris Dupre in Hilary and Jackie; Lucky Break; Una in Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason;
and Thunderpants. Imrie enjoyed critical acclaim for her role in Calendar Girls. Imrie was the winner of the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the Royal National Theatre production of Edward Bond's The Sea and played in The Hothouse with Harold Pinter. More recently, she has appeared in Habeus Corpus at the Donmar Warehouse, Dona Rosita at the Almeida Theatre; Mrs Candour in the RSC's production of School for Scandal and the hugely successful musical Acorn Antiques at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Trevor Nunn.
This year, Celia has performed a one-woman play Unsuspecting Susan in New York to packed houses, a play she first performed at the King's Head in Islington in 2003.
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