"The specific brilliance of Lesley Manville had been on display for those who knew where to look long before her first Oscar nomination. She'd been part of the enviable Mike Leigh troupe (her first nomination should have been for Another Year) and a permanent small-screen fixture, even if the size of her roles hadn't correlated to the size of her talent."
"But after Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson's singular magnum opus, Manville has enjoyed a spectacular boom, a long-deserved reward for her and an even bigger one for those of us watching. The role came as she was entering her 60s, a period that can often leave female actors with grimly limited options, but she's bucked the trend, not just through the sheer amount of work she's found but also the unusual variety."
"She was a wife experiencing later stage sexual dissatisfaction in I Am Maria, a vicious Ma Barker type reigning over a North Dakota family of criminals in Let Him Go, a gun-toting ayahuasca-farming jungle doctor in Queer, the devious antagonist of the spy series Citadel, a cleaner turned fashionista in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and an OnlyFans stripper in Ryan Murphy's Grotesquerie."
Lesley Manville gained recognition through the Mike Leigh troupe and television work despite roles not matching her talent. Phantom Thread sparked a major career surge as she entered her 60s, a time when options for female actors often narrow. She has chosen diverse, challenging parts and avoided patronising comedies. Recent roles include a dissatisfied wife in I Am Maria, a Ma Barker–type matriarch in Let Him Go, a gun‑toting ayahuasca‑farming jungle doctor in Queer, an antagonist in Citadel, a cleaner‑turned‑fashionista in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, and an OnlyFans stripper in Grotesquerie. She leads the cold‑war thriller Winter of the Crow as Joan, a psychiatry professor confronted by a student uprising in Poland.
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