Lesley Nicol

Lesley Nicol

Born: August 7, 1953
in Manchester, England, UK
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Lesley Nicol (born August 7, 1953 in Manchester, England) is an English actress, who is most notable for her role as Mrs Beaver in the 1988 BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and as the Queen Giant in the 1990 adaptation of The Silver Chair. She has guest-starred on numerous British television series. She also appeared as Rosie in the West End production of Mamma Mia! from 2000 to 2002. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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Title: Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Character: Pam Stubbs
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: TV
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Title: Downton Abbey: A New Era
Character: Beryl Patmore
Released: April 27, 2022
Type: Movie
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
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Title: Jellystone!
Character: Winsome Witch (voice)
Released: July 29, 2021
Type: TV
Welcome to Jellystone! Travel to a magical town where you’ll meet new and old friends, including Yogi Bear, Cindy Bear, Boo Boo, and Huckleberry Hound…and Jabberjaw and Top Cat and Snagglepuss and El Kabong and Wally Gator and Johnny Quest and Hadji and Shag Rugg and Captain Caveman and a whole lot more.
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Title: Animaniacs
Character: Drusilla / Baker's Wife (voice)
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: TV
Yakko, Wakko and Dot return for all-new big laughs and the occasional epic takedown of authority figures in serious need of an ego check. Joining the Warners are Starbox & Cindy on their latest play date while Pinky and the Brain's ideas for world domination lead them to all new adventures.
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Title: Animaniacs
Character: Mrs. Kettle (voice)
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: TV
Yakko, Wakko and Dot return for all-new big laughs and the occasional epic takedown of authority figures in serious need of an ego check. Joining the Warners are Starbox & Cindy on their latest play date while Pinky and the Brain's ideas for world domination lead them to all new adventures.
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More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Title: More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Character: Adel
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Three women’s lives intersect at a lakeside resort and are forever changed by the love of a special needs boy.
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Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Title: Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Character: Forever Tree
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A cheerful Welsh girl grows a talking pine named PINEY to be her Christmas tree, but when he's accidentally removed from her grandfather's Christmas tree farm, the plucky family dog leads him on a journey across the countryside while the girl and her grandpa frantically search to get them home before Christmas. Piney's unexpected journey is filled with love, hope and inspiration.
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Downton Abbey
Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Beryl Patmore
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: Movie
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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Downton Abbey Live!
Title: Downton Abbey Live!
Character: Self
Released: August 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A live celebration of the hit TV series, including cast interviews and sneak peeks at the 2019 film.
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Title: The Boys
Character: Connie Butcher
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: TV
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
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Title: Beecham House
Character: Henrietta Beecham
Released: June 23, 2019
Type: TV
On the cusp of the 19th century in Delhi, we follow the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. The story begins as handsome and soulful former English soldier John Beecham has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Ramona / Emma (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Ramona (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Ramona / Mo (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Ramona / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Title: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Character: Nobel Moderator (voice)
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on the bestselling book series, this outrageous comedy tells the story of George and Harold, two overly imaginative pranksters who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s an enthusiastic, yet dimwitted, superhero named Captain Underpants.
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Ghostbusters
Title: Ghostbusters
Character: Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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Title: Harvey Beaks
Character: Lady Lake Spirit (voice)
Released: March 29, 2015
Type: TV
A mild-mannered young bird and his best friends, a pair of rambunctious siblings called Fee and Foo, seek adventure and mischief in the magical forest that they call home.
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Title: Harvey Beaks
Character: Ms. Paddles (voice)
Released: March 29, 2015
Type: TV
A mild-mannered young bird and his best friends, a pair of rambunctious siblings called Fee and Foo, seek adventure and mischief in the magical forest that they call home.
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Title: The Odd Couple
Character: Marge
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: TV
Oscar's life seems almost perfect...sure he's divorced and his apartment is a mess, but he's the host of a well-known sports show, and is enjoying his bachelor lifestyle in New York City. That is until his college friend, Felix, shows up at Oscar's apartment having just been dumped by his wife. Oscar does his best to console his old buddy and get him back on the dating horse, but his attempts uncover just how unresolved his own feelings are about his ex.
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Free Birds
Title: Free Birds
Character: Female Pilgrim (voice)
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Majorie Chummy
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Johanna
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
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West Is West
Title: West Is West
Character: Auntie Annie
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Beryl Patmore
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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Title: Hot in Cleveland
Character: Margaret
Released: June 16, 2010
Type: TV
Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
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Hancock & Joan
Title: Hancock & Joan
Character: Nellie
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
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Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Title: Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Character: Jean
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
When Julie Bottomley discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to kill him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how "Dead Clever" she's been?
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Katja
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Rose and Maloney
Character: Headteacher
Released: September 29, 2002
Type: TV
Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.
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Title: Extremely Dangerous
Character: Gwenda Palmer
Released: November 11, 1999
Type: TV
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
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East Is East
Title: East Is East
Character: Auntie Annie
Released: May 14, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
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Title: Dinnerladies
Character: Worker
Released: November 12, 1998
Type: TV
Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
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Title: The Grand
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: TV
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann. The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Sally Buxton
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Nora Budge
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Rita Stirling
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mrs. Swinton
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Paul Merton: The Series
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: TV
Fresh from his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, Paul starred in his own comedy series on Channel 4, featuring a mix of surreal sketches, links and stand-up routines
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Character: Giant Queen
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of Narnia, where they are entrusted with a task by Aslan: to rescue the king's stolen son, Prince Rilian. Together with Puddleglum the Marshwiggle, they must travel north across the mountains, dodge giants, and journey down into the earth itself to rescue Rilian from the mysterious evil that holds him bound there.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Character: Mrs. Beaver
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
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Title: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character: Mrs. Beaver
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Jayne Bowen
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Mrs. Pants
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.