Lesley Manville
An Enigma “They seek her here, they seek her there, they seek her almost everywhere.” The fact is five foot two, eyes of blue, ex soprano Lesley Manville, is indeed a sought out, much awarded actress who unveils her true brilliance on stage and screen. Directors like Mike Leigh, and ex-husbands like Gary Oldman were probably mesmerized by her starry aura. Gary must have insisted she give Hollywood a try; not bad advice when one ends up costarring with Angelina Jolie in movies like “Maleficent” and Daniel Day Lewis in “Phantom Thread”, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
This multifarious, Piscean thespian also told an interviewer from Anglophenia, “I do a varied palette of work and characters, and I’m incredibly grateful for that – that’s what keeps me going....I feel very equipped in my career---”. Pure Piscean Genius Let's face it, hers is pure genius; after all her Sun, Moon and Mercury are all in that highly sensitive water sign. She mixes and matches a character's faults and virtues, merging and flowing into their moods as she strips their souls bare . She literally morphs into the psychotic Claire Zachanassian in the stage version of “The Visit, “a wicked creature, and for precisely that reason must not be played wicked”.
Mercury in Pisces helps her to expand on a character's contradictions, she unWhen the Guardian asked her how it derstands things about them others felt being a middle-aged Hollywood could not. She is a true psychic as she star. She replied “Extraordinary… I’m glad it happened when it did...... I was merges with their puzzling souls, even if her delicate character does not stand working with Paul Thomas Anderson, I fools gladly. She told the Guardian was not in a fake glitzy world of Holly“There’s an inherent thing in my brain wood, the work was a segue from Mike that makes me work hard. I don’t take Leigh. It came left of field. I did not any job for granted. I learn my lines. I have to compromise to do it – or get know what I’m doing. I come in good Botoxed [laughs]. But I did go hopping spirit, good faith and with humour. I and skipping and giggling to the Oscars don’t ever want to slow up. I work with because… why wouldn’t you? people much younger than me who sometimes don’t turn up prepared and I A Multifarious Thespian
