FrameThrower · Actors · Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville
10 films · 682 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1999–2024
Born 12 March 1956 · Brighton, England, UK
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 682 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1999–2024
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire2021
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire2015
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress2014
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actress2010
- London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year2003
- London Film Critics' Circle
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
How their films are shot
Measured across 682 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lesley takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Lesley takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 682 frames from Lesley Manville's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.