Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie CBE is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress and Sunday Times bestselling novelist. Recently, she starred in Netflix/Amblin’s The Thursday Murder Club. Her television work includes The Diplomat, and Better Things. She will next be seen in War for HBO and Sky, Amazon’s Tomb Raider, and the fifth season of Apple TV+’s Trying. She will also appear in the upcoming British comedy Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint.

She is widely recognised for roles in The Best and Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, The Bridget Jones series and Absolutely Fabulous, and was recently a fan favourite on BBC One’s Celebrity Traitors.

She is also the author of seven books, with her latest novel Meet Me at Rainbow Corner published in 2024. Her memoir, The Elegant Hustler: Adventures from a Life on the Move publishes with Sphere on October 8th.