Celia Imrie

Celia Diana Savile Imrie is an actress from England, born on 15 July 1952, in Surrey, England. She was the fourth child in her family while she had four other siblings. Her father belonged to Glasgow, Scotland. Imbrue completed her schooling from Guildford High School, after which her higher education took place at the Guildford School of Acting (University of Surrey) where she got professional training in drama. Triumphantly, on 18th October 2013, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Winchester. Imrie is known for her work in almost all genres of acting like movies, television, theatre and radio. Her highly renowned film appearances include Calendar Girls Click to look into! >> Read More... (2003), a comedy-drama film based on the true story of a group of dedicated women in Yorkshire who posed nude for a shoot to raise funds for medical research on the disease of leukaemia, and the very famous movie series The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015). On television, she is highly acclaimed for her work alongside Victoria Wood. These include her roles in Broadcasting Press Guild Award-winning telefilm Pat and Margaret, BBC One’s sitcom Dinnerladies and the big time BAFTA Award- winning show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV. Her theatre endeavours were praised in 2005 for her performance in Unsuspecting Susan which was also her debut on stage, and later in 2009, for her work on a play which was based on John Gielgud’s arrest which took place in 1953, titled Plague Over England.

She and Martin Clunes have shared the screen in A Is For Acid, a film that revolved around the life of a serial killer named John George Haigh, and in an unusual comedy series with a medical background titled Doc Martin Doc Martin is a comedy English serial broadcast on >> Read More... . Her successful work on radio consists of BBC Radio 4’s famous shows- No Commitments in 1992 which revolved around the story of three sisters, and a comedy genius show based on Charles Dickens The world-renowned British writer and social criti >> Read More... ’ novels- Bleak House and Great Expectations Click to look into! >> Read More... called Bleak Expectations in 2007. In 1992, she was the winner of The Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress in The Sea (play). She also won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical in 2006. Imrie presently resides in London and sometimes in Cowes. She is mother to a son named Angus whom she had with her partner, Benjamin Whitrow, who is also an actor. Angus has also appeared as her son in reel-life in Kingdom. It is known that at the age of fourteen, Imrie suffered from anorexia nervosa. She is still a very active actress and also has her own website, http://www.celiaimrie.com/.