Celia Imrie Biography
Celia Imrie is an author and actress from British. The Bridget Jones film series, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the FX TV series Better Things, and the Netflix series The Diplomat are just a few of the roles she is best known for.
How old is Celia Imrie? – Age
Born Celia Diana Savile Imrie, the The Diplomat actress is 72 years old as of 15 July 2024. She was born in 1952 in Guildford, United Kingdom.
Celia Imrie Family – Education
Imrie, the fourth of five children born to radiologist Dr. David Andrew Imrie and Diana Elizabeth Blois (née Cator), was born in Guildford, Surrey, on July 15, 1952. Her father was Scottish, born in Glasgow. In her hometown of Guildford, Imrie attended the independent Guildford High School and then the Guildford School of Acting.
Who is Imrie’s son?
In 1994, she gave birth to a baby named Angus Imrie with actor Benjamin Whitrow.
Imrie Net Worth
Celia has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
Celia Imrie Illness
She was taken to the Royal Waterloo Hospital at the age of 14 with anorexia nervosa. She had electroshock treatment and high dosages of the anti-psychotic medication Largactil while being treated by controversial psychiatrist William Sargant. She experienced a pulmonary embolism in July 2005 and spent two weeks in the hospital.
Imrie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Alongside Lily James, Imrie recorded a cover of the ABBA classic “When I Kissed the Teacher” for her first UK Top 40 single, which peaked at number 40 in August 2018, while she was a cast member of the 2018 movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
BBC Radio
Bleak Expectations and No Commitments on BBC Radio 4 are two of Imrie’s radio appearances. She read the book Arabella, which was aired as the Book at Bedtime for two weeks at the beginning of 2007. On February 13, 2011, she was the featured guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. In October 2019, she had an appearance on The Museum of Curiosity on BBC Radio 4. She mentioned donating “A half-burnt candle” to this made-up museum.
The Diplomat
Imrie appeared as Margaret Roylin, a former campaign manager of the Conservative Party in the American political thriller television series The Diplomat. The show follows Kate Wyler, the recently appointed US ambassador to the UK, as she forms strategic partnerships, learns to live in the spotlight, and assists in defusing a global catastrophe. In addition, she oversees her failing union with colleague professional diplomat Hal Wyler.
Better Things
Imrie appeared as Phyllis “Phil” Darby, Sam’s British mother with some looming physical and mental issues in the American comedy-drama television series Better Things. First airing on September 8, 2016, was the series. On February 28, 2022, the fifth and final season of the show debuted after being renewed. On April 25, 2022, the series came to an end. Adlon received recognition for both the series and her performance, and in 2017 and 2018, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. “[…] this searingly funny and beautiful show is an at-times raw examination of the vicissitudes of working motherhood, crackling with feminist verve and energy, that consistently cuts new ground,” the Peabody Award board wrote in their statement for the program, which was given to it in April 2017.
Keeping Faith
Imrie appeared as Rose Fairchild; Faith’s mother in the Welsh thriller television series Keeping Faith. Huw Thomas, the arts and media correspondent for BBC Wales, stated on May 6, 2018, that a second series is in development and that later that year, the second series was commissioned. Series one ended on a cliffhanger. Production commenced in September 2018 and was aired in Wales on S4C in Welsh with English subtitles on May 12, 2019. The English version was aired nationwide on BBC One in July and August of the same year.
The English-language broadcast of the third and final series debuted on BBC One on March 27, 2021, after it had its premiere in November and December of 2020 on S4C (with the name Un Bore Mercher).On March 27, 2021, the BBC iPlayer launched this series. The series had received over 50 million views on BBC iPlayer by May 2021.
Imrie’s Books
Published by Bloomsbury in 2015, her debut book Not Quite Nice spent six weeks in the Sunday Times Top Ten, was described as a “delicious piece of entertainment” by The Times, and peaked at number five on the Apple iBooks list and number eight on the Amazon book chart. In 2016, she released her second book, Nice Work (If You Can Get It), and in February 2018, her third book, Sail Away, came out. A Nice Cup of Tea, her subsequent piece, was released in 2019. Orphans of the Storm, her fifth book, was released in 2021.
Celia Imrie Movies and TV Shows Credits
Imrie has appeared in various films including;
Movies
♦ 2025 – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
♦ 2023 – Love Again
♦ 2023 – Good Grief
♦ 2022 – Fifty-Four Days
♦ 2020 – Love Sarah
♦ 2018 – Malevolent
♦ 2018 – Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
♦ 2018 – Nativity Rocks! This Ain’t No Silent Night
♦ 2017 – A Cure for Wellness
♦ 2017 – Monster Family
♦ 2017 – Finding Your Feet
♦ 2016 – Year by the Sea
♦ 2016 – Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
♦ 2016 – Bridget Jones’s Baby
♦ 2015 – The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
♦ 2015 – Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
♦ 2014 – What We Did on Our Holiday
♦ 2014 – Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?
♦ 2013 – The Love Punch
♦ 2012 – Acts of Godfrey
♦ 2011 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
♦ 2011 – My Angel
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Diplomat
♦ 2020 – Keeping Faith
♦ 2018 – Patrick Melrose
♦ 2018 – Hang Ups
♦ 2016 – Legends of Tomorrow
♦ 2016–2022 – Better Things
♦ 2015 – Vicious
♦ 2014 – Blandings
♦ 2014 – Our Zoo
♦ 2013 – Doctor Who
♦ 2013 – Love and Marriage
♦ 2012 – Hacks
♦ 2012 – Titanic
♦ 2012 – Lewis
♦ 2011 – The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
♦ 2010 – The Road to Coronation Street