Celia Imrie (born July 15, 1952) is an English actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie has played Marianne Bellshade in “Bergerac,” Philippa Moorcroft in “Dinnerladies,” Miss Babs in “Acorn Antiques,” Diana Neal in “After You've Gone,” and Gloria Millington in “Kingdom.” Her other roles include in the films “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” the “Bridget Jones’ Diary” series, and “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” She has been described as "one of the most successful British actresses of recent decades".

Filmography

• 2026Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint — Gloria Lynn
• WAR — Jo 'Budgie' Budge
• 2025Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — Una Alconbury
• 2025The Thursday Murder Club — Joyce
• 2024A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone — E. Nesbit
• 2023Good Grief — Imelda
• 2023Love Again — Gina Valentine
• 2023Mummies — Mother June Carnaby (voice)
• The Diplomat — Meg Roylin
• 2022Christmas on Mistletoe Farm — Miss Womble
• 2022Fifty-Four Days — Gloria
• 2022Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem — Narrator (voice)
• 2021Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas — Malabelle
• 2021Louisa: An Amazing Adventure — May Crocombe (voice)
• 2020Love Sarah — Mimi
• The Savoy — Narrator
• Trying — Harriet
• 2019Cinderella: After Ever After — Madame Blackheart
• Hang Ups — Maggie Pitt
• 2018Malevolent — Mrs. Green
• 2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again — Vice Chancellor
• 2018Nativity Rocks! — Mrs. Keen
• 2018One Evening In June — Beth
• Patrick Melrose — Kettle
• 2018To Provide All People — Patient
• 2017A Cure for Wellness — Victoria Watkins
• 2017Finding Your Feet — Bif
• 2017Monster Family — Cheyenne (voice)
• 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie — Claudia Bing
• Better Things — Phil
• 2016Bridget Jones's Baby — Una
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Mary Xavier
• 2016Year by the Sea — Erikson
• 2015Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism — Edna
• 2015The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Madge Hardcastle
• 2014Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! — Mrs. Keen
• 2014The Love Punch — Pen
• 2014What We Did on Our Holiday — Agnes Chisolm
• Blandings — Charlotte
• Love and Marriage — Rowan Holdaway
• 2013Remembering Douglas Camfield
• Talking Pictures — Narrator
• Vicious — Lillian Haverfield-Wickham
• 2012Acts of Godfrey — Helen McGann
• 2012The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Madge Hardcastle
• Titanic — Grace Rushton
• 2011My Angel — The Librarian
• 2010Lost Connection — Mum
• 2010The Man Who Married Himself — Mother
• 2010The Road to Coronation Street — Doris Speed
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Enid Wicklow
• 2009St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold — Matron
• 2008Player — Laetitia
• After You've Gone — Diana
• Cranford — Lady Glenmire
• 2007Dangerous Liaisons — Emily Coulter
• Kingdom — Gloria Millington
• Lewis — Michelle Marber
• 2007St Trinian's — Hausmutter
• 2006Acorn Antiques: The Musical — Miss Babs
• 2006Imagine Me & You — Tessa
• 2006The Lavender List — Mary Wilson
• Doctor Who — Miss Kizlet
• 2005Mr Harvey Lights a Candle — Miss Davies
• 2005Nanny McPhee — Mrs. Quickly
• 2005Wah-Wah — Lady Riva Hardwick
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Madame Joilet
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Una Alconbury
• Doc Martin — Susan Brading
• The Paul O'Grady Show
• 2004Wimbledon — Lydice Kenwood
• 2003Calendar Girls — Celia
• 2003Heartlands — Sonja
• 2003Out of Bounds — Doctor Imogen Reed
• 2003The Planman — Gail Forrester
• The Terry and Gaby Show
• 2003Thora Hird Tribute — Philippa, Claire (archive footage, uncredited)
• 2002A Is for Acid — Rose Henderson
• Daniel Deronda — Mrs Meyrick
• Doctor Zhivago — Anna Gromeko
• 2002Plain Jane — Ellen Reynolds
• Sparkhouse — Kate Lawton
• Still Game
• 2002The Gathering Storm — Violet Pearman
• 2002Thunderpants — Miss Rapier
• 2001Bridget Jones's Diary — Una Alconbury
• Love in a Cold Climate — Aunt Sadie
• 2001Lucky Break — Amy
• 2001Revelation — Harriet Martel
• 2001Station Jim — Miss Frazier
• Gormenghast — Gertrude, Countess of Groan
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings — Self/Various Characters
• 1999A Christmas Carol — Mrs. Bennett
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Fighter Pilot Bravo 5
• Duck Patrol — Mrs. Calloway
• 1998Hilary and Jackie — Iris du Pré
• Microsoap — Miss Cottingham
• dinnerladies — Philippa Moorcroft
• 1997Hospital! — Sister Muriel
• 1997Into the Blue — Nadine Cunningham
• Jonathan Creek — Thelma Bailey
• Midsomer Murders — Louise August
• 1997Mr White Goes To Westminster — Victoria Madison
• 1997The Borrowers — Homily Clock
• 1997The Canterville Ghost — Lucy Otis
• The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling — Mrs. Miller, Mrs, Miller
• Wokenwell
• Dalziel and Pascoe
• 1996The Writing on the Wall — Kirsty
• 1995A Very Open Prison — Victoria Bridgewater
• Black Hearts in Battersea — Duchess Of Battersea
• 1995In the Bleak Midwinter — Fadge
• A Dark Adapted Eye — Vera
• Class Act — Class Act
• 1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein — Mrs. Moritz
• 1994Pat and Margaret — Claire
• 1994The Return of the Native — Susan Nunsuch
• The Riff Raff Element — Joanna Tundish
• 1993Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles — Lady MacDonald
• Absolutely Fabulous — Claudia Bing
• 1992Blue Black Permanent — Barbara Thorburn
• Heartbeat — Sylvia Langley
• 1992Thacker — Ann Hadon Smith
• 1992Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
• All Good Things — Rachel Bromley
• The Darling Buds of May — Corinne Perigo
• 1991The Harmfulness of Tobacco
• 1990102 Boulevard Haussmann — Madame Massis
• 1990Old Flames — Davina Wright / Hopjoy
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit — Miss Jewsbury
• 1990The World of Eddie Weary — Birdie
• 4 Play — Bunny Heckle
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — 'Aunt' Kathy Cloade
• 1989Murder on the Moon — Patsy Diehl
• Screen One — Clare
• Stay Lucky — Julie Vernon
• The Justice Game — Caroline Jarvis
• Victoria Wood — Jackie, Carol, Julia
• 1987Acorn Antiques — Babs
• The New Statesman — Hilary
• Casualty — Elizabeth Clayton
• 1986Highlander — Kate MacLeod
• Lovejoy — Lady Felicity Carey-Holden
• ScreenPlay — Lady MacDonald
• Acorn Antiques — Miss Babs
• Screen Two — Victoria Bridgewater, Davina Wright, Madame Massis
• Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
• Storyboard — Sylvia
• Taggart
• 1983The Wicked Lady — Servant at Inn
• Cloud Howe — Else Queen
• Bergerac — Marianne
• 1981The Nightmare Man — Fiona Patterson
• The Nightmare Man — Fiona Patterson
• Shoestring — Sheila Johnson
• 1978Death on the Nile — Maid (uncredited)
• 1978Ice Age — Housemaid
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Housemaid
• 1974House of Whipcord — Barbara
• 1973Assassin — Stacy's Secretary
• Van der Valk — Marijke Dekker
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Edith Nesbit
• Upstairs, Downstairs — Jenny
• Omnibus
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Susan Nunsuch
• Down, Down, Down — Sylvia
• Tomb Raider — Francine

Appearances as themselves (13)

• The Celebrity Traitors — Self - Contestant
• 2022Robbie Coltrane at the BBC — Self - Presenter
• 2019D-Day 75: A Tribute to Heroes — Self
• 2016Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood — Self
• A Life on Screen — Self
• 2009Victoria Wood: Seen on TV — Self
• 2008Stanley Baxter: Now and Then — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The One Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Timeshift — self
• 1988An Audience With Victoria Wood — Self - Questioner
• 1987Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment — Self