Lesley Ann Manville [ 1 ] born 12 March [ 2 ] is an English actress. Turner Harris Goes to Paris , and Queer Manville was born in Brighton , East Sussex , the daughter of Norma known as Jean , a former ballet dancer , and Ron Manville, a taxi driver. After turning down teacher Arlene Phillips 's invitation to join her new dance troupe Hot Gossip , she was taught improvisation by Italia Conti teacher Julia Carey.
She paid for her first flat by landing a part in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm ā76 , in which she appeared in 80 episodes. Manville built a career as a distinctive theatre actress; from she appeared in new plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company 's Warehouse and Royal Court Theatre.
She made her film debut in with Dance with a Stranger , directed by Mike Newell , and telling the story of Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Harris Goes to Paris. In January it was announced that Manville was added to the cast of the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and would be playing Winehouse's grandmother Cynthia Winehouse. Manville's first boyfriend was actor and former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan whom she met at stage school while attending Italia Conti.
Her first husband was actor Gary Oldman. The pair split in , three months after their son, Alfie b. Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease.
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