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The Crown

2016
as Elizabeth II

Maleficent

2014
as Knotgrass

Alice in Wonderland

2010
as Tall Flower Faces (voice)

Paddington

2015
as Aunt Lucy (voice)

Nanny McPhee

2005
as Mrs. Blatherwick

Chicken Run

2000
as Bunty (voice)

Trying

2020
as Penny

Arthur Christmas

2011
as Mrs. Santa (voice)

Freedom Writers

2007
as Margaret Campbell

Downton Abbey

2019
as Maud Bagshaw, Dowager Baroness Bagshaw

Paddington 2

2017
as Aunt Lucy (voice)

Pride

2014
as Hefina

Sense and Sensibility

1995
as Charlotte Jennings Palmer

A Confession

2019
as Karen Edwards

Fingersmith

2005
as Mrs. Sucksby

Crush

2001
as Janine

Three and Out

2008
as Rosemary Cassidy

Peter's Friends

1992
as Mary Charleston

Don't Leave Me This Way

1993
as Bridget Bennet

Guilty Hearts

2006
as Naomi

Comrades

1987
as Betsy Loveless

The Singing Detective

1986
as Staff Nurse White

Finding Your Feet

2017
as Sandra Abbott

Paddington in Peru

2024
as Aunt Lucy

Psychoville

2009
as Grace Andrews

Vera Drake

2004
as Vera Drake

Cranford

2007
as Miss Octavia Pole

Rat

2001
as Conchita Flynn

The Canterville Ghost

2023
as Mrs. Umney

I'll Be There

2003
as Dr. Bridget

The Virgin of Liverpool

2003
as Sylvia Conlon

Taking Woodstock

2009
as Sonia Teichberg

The Story of Musicals

2012
as Self - Narrator

The Ugly Duckling

1997
as Scruffy (voice)

Blackball

2003
as Bridget

Twelfth Night

1996
as Maria

Another Life

2001
as Ethel Graydon

Shadow Man

2006
as Ambassador Cochran

Citizen X

1995
as Mrs. Burakov

The Awakening

2011
as Maud Hill

How About You...

2007
as Hazel Nightingale

Amulet

2020
as Sister Claire

National Theatre Live: Follies

2017
as Sally Durant Plummer

The Canterbury Tales

1998
as The Prioress

The Girl

2012
as Alma Hitchcock

A Masculine Ending

1992
as Bridget Bennet

Another Year

2010
as Janet

London: The Modern Babylon

2012
as Quotations spoken by

Deadly Advice

1994
as Beth Greenwood

Antonia and Jane

1990
as Jane Hartman

Little Bird

2017
as First Officer Simpkins

Mole's Christmas

1994
as (voice)

White Other

2010
as Lynne McDermott

Guest Star

Episode Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
Victoria Wood with all the Trimmings
2000
Episode Tales from the Crypt
About Face
1996
Episode Lily's Driftwood Bay
Fabulous Darling
2017
Episode Strange
Incubus
2003
Episode Coming Up
Lickle Bill Um
2008
Episode Natural World
Butterflies: A Very British Obsession
2010
Episode Brassic
A Very Brassic Christmas
2023
Episode Harry Potter at Home
Chapter Twelve: The Mirror of Erised
2020
Episode The Canterbury Tales
Leaving London
1998
Episode Cambridge Spies
Episode Four
2003
Episode A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Episode 3
1995
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The Girl Who Waited
2011
Episode Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Episode Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
2019
Episode Fame In The Frame
Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter
1970
Episode ShakespeaRe-Told
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2005
Episode The Canterbury Tales
Arriving at Canterbury
1998
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 11
2023
Episode BBC Documentaries
The NHS: A Difficult Beginning
2008