A member of director Mike_Leigh's hardworking repertory cast, British actress Lesley Manville started acting in U.K. television dramas during the early '80s. After her debut feature in 1985 for the crime drama Dance With a Stranger, she found her place in comedy-dramas with Clare_Peploe's High_Season. The next year, she began her longtime collaboration with Mike_Leigh for the comedy High_Hopes, followed by Secrets and Lies and Topsy-Turvy. She married actor Gary_Oldman and had a son, but the couple divorced soon after they both appeared in the made-for-TV movie The_Firm in 1988. She continued to work in British miniseries, TV movies, and short films throughout the '90s, including an appearance as Mrs. Micawber in a TNT version of -David Copperfield. Manville finally gained a lead role in Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002, as Penny, a grocery store clerk married to taxi cab driver Phil (frequent Leigh leading man Timothy_Spall). Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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