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- & Sons → Isabel
- Tommy & Tuppence (TV) → Aunt Ada
- Testimony → Narrator (voice)
- National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession → Mrs Peggy Warren
- Paddington in Peru → Aunt Lucy (voice)
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget → Bunty (voice)
- The Canterville Ghost → Mrs Umney (voice)
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV) → Self
- Downton Abbey: A New Era → Maud Bagshaw
- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends → Self
- Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War (TV) → Self - Narrator
- Victorian Britain on Film → Narrator
- Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion → Self
- Trying (TV) → Penny
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (TV) → Irene Ruddock
- Flesh and Blood (TV) → Mary Bennett
- Amulet → Sister Claire
- The Magical World of Julia Donaldson → Self - Readings
- The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson → reader
- The Far Traveller → Narrator
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil → Knotgrass
- Downton Abbey → Maud Bagshaw
- A Confession (TV) → Karen Edwards
- A Confession As Told By ITV News → Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
- Paddington 2 → Aunt Lucy (voice)
- Finding Your Feet → Sandra Abbott
- Harry Potter: A History Of Magic → Narrator
- National Theatre Live: Follies → Sally Durant Plummer
- Little Bird → First Officer Simpkins
- National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? → Martha
- The Crown (TV) → Queen Elizabeth II
- Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me → Self
- Gypsy → Rose
- Maleficent → Knotgrass
- Paddington → Aunt Lucy (voice)
- Lily's Driftwood Bay (TV) → Rowena Rabbit (voice)
- Pride → Hefina
- That Day We Sang → Enid
- Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made → Self
- Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time → Shrew (voice)
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! → Queen Victoria (voice)
- The Girl → Alma Reville Hitchcock
- The Story of Musicals (TV) → Self – Narrator (voice)
- London: The Modern Babylon → Spoken Quotations (voice)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street → Mrs. Lovett
- Arthur Christmas → Mrs Santa (voice)
- The Awakening → Maud Hill
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 → Dolores Umbridge
- Alice in Wonderland → Talking Flowers (voice)
- The Michael Ball Show (TV) → Self
- Another Year → Janet
- White Other → Lynne McDermott
- Psychoville Halloween Special → Grace Andrews
- Psychoville (TV) → Grace Andrews
- Taking Woodstock → Sonia Teichberg
- Adapting Austen → Self
- Big & Small (TV) → Twiba / Ruby (voice)
- Big & Small (TV) → Twiba (voice)
- Three and Out → Rosemary Cassidy
- A Bunch of Amateurs → Mary
- Clay → Mary Doonan
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix → Dolores Umbridge
- Cranford (TV) → Miss Pole
- Freedom Writers → Margaret Campbell
- How About You... → Hazel Nightingale
- Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out → Self
- Where Have I Been All Your Life? → Angela
- Guilty Hearts → Naomi
- The One Show (TV) → Self
- Shadow Man → Ambassador Cochran
- The Wind in the Willows → Barge Lady
- Live! Girls! Present Dogtown (TV)
- Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image → Herself
- Doctor Who (TV) → Interface (voice)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV) → Self
- Nanny McPhee → Mrs. Blatherwick
- Fingersmith (TV) → Mrs. Sucksby
- ShakespeaRe-Told (TV)
- My Family and Other Animals → Mother
- Vera Drake → Vera Drake
- Little Britain (TV) → Mrs. Mead
- Cambridge Spies (TV) → The Queen
- Strange (TV) → Reverend Mary Truegood
- Bright Young Things → Lady Brown
- Blackball → Bridget
- I'll Be There → Dr. Bridget
- The Virgin of Liverpool → Sylvia Conlon
- Murder (TV) → DCI Billie Dory
- Crush → Janine
- Ready → Naomi
- Another Life → Ethel Graydon
- Chicken Run → Bunty (voice)
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings → Mrs. Cottisloe
- Rat → Conchita Flynn
- David Copperfield (TV) → Mrs. Micawber
- Jack and the Beanstalk → Dilly (voice)
- Shakespeare in Love → Nurse
- Midsomer Murders (TV) → Christine Cooper
- The Ugly Duckling → Scruffy (voice)
- Remember Me? → Lorna
- Twelfth Night → Maria
- The Snow Queen's Revenge → Elspeth / Rowena (voice)
- The Adventures of Toad → Voice
- Sense and Sensibility → Charlotte Jennings Palmer
- Citizen X → Mrs. Burakov
- Look at the State We're In! (TV) → Councillor Johnson
- The Snow Queen → Ivy / Angorra
- Is It Legal? (TV)
- The Adventures of Mole → Voice
- The Wind in the Willows → Mother Squirrel
- The Pen
- Deadly Advice → Beth Greenwood
- Mole's Christmas → (voices)
- Much Ado About Nothing → Margaret
- Frank Stubbs Promotes (TV) → Susan
- If You See God, Tell Him (TV) → Muriel Spry
- Don't Leave Me This Way → Bridget Bennet
- Peter's Friends → Mary Charleston
- Roots → Jenny Beales
- A Masculine Ending → Bridget Bennet
- Performance (TV) → Jenny Beales
- They Never Slept → The Producer
- Up the Garden Path (TV)
- Yellowbacks → Cheryl Newman
- Antonia and Jane → Jane Hartman
- The Englishman's Wife → Stephanie
- Tales from the Crypt (TV) → Sarah
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie (TV)
- The Heat of the Day → Louie
- The Play on One (TV) → Cheryl Newman
- Thompson (TV) → Self
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV) → Polly Flinders
- Comrades → Betsy Loveless
- The Singing Detective (TV) → Staff Nurse White
- Ladies in Charge (TV) → Edith
- Screen Two (TV) → The Producer
- Natural World (TV) → Narrator
- Easy Money → Mary Price
- Playhouse (TV) → Mary Price
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee