Marion Bailey

Marion Bailey (born 5 May 1951) is an English actress.[1] She is best known for her work with her partner, filmmaker Mike Leigh,[2] including the films Meantime (1983), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Mr. Turner (2014), for which she was nominated Supporting Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle, and Peterloo (2018). In 2019 and 2020, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown on Netflix, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild award winner for best ensemble in 2020 and 2021.

Marion Bailey
Bailey in 2014
Born (1951-05-05) 5 May 1951
Alma materGuildhall School of Music and Drama
OccupationActress

Personal life

Bailey was born in Bushey Hospital, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, to Rose (née Timberlake) and William Bailey. She grew up in Harrow, Middlesex, and attended Pinner County Grammar School. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. With writer Terry Johnson, she has a daughter, actress Alice Bailey Johnson, who she acted with in an episode of This is Going to Hurt as the mother to Alice's pregnant character.[3]

Career

Film

As well as Leigh's films, Bailey has appeared as Mrs Peach in Debbie Isitt's Nasty Neighbours (2000), Mary in the Craig Ferguson film I'll Be There and Mrs Adams in S.J.Clarkson's "Toast" (2010). Bailey starred as Mrs Booth in Mr. Turner (2014) and appeared in The Lady in the Van (2015), Allied (2016), Dead in a Week or Your Money Back (2018), Lady Conyngham in Leigh's Peterloo (2018) and played Dinah in Stephen Cookson's "Brighton"(2019).

Television

Bailey's television work includes Inspector Morse, Casualty, The Bill, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Agatha Christie's Poirot, A Touch of Frost, Dalziel and Pascoe, Big Deal, Boon, The Bretts, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, No More Dying Then, Stay Lucky, Heat of the Sun, Micawber, New Tricks, Monday Monday, Being Human and Case Histories. In 1995, she had a recurring role as Avis in the long-running ITV series Shine on Harvey Moon. She also played leading roles in several popular 1980s TV series, including To Have and to Hold, Jury and Charlie.

In 2000, she played Wendy in Carlton's comedy-drama series The Thing About Vince. She has also appeared in many single TV dramas and films including Woyzeck, Way Upstream, Zackharov, Raspberry, Coppers, Derailed, Toast and Jane Austen's Persuasion. She played Jill in the BBC Three comedy series Him and Her, Sue in The Trials of Jimmy Rose, Ingrid in Temple, Cara in Britannia for Sky. She played Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in seasons 3 and 4 of international Netflix series The Crown,[4] for which she was the recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Television Drama Series. She has most recently appeared in Shakespeare and Hathaway and Endeavour.

Theatre

Bailey has worked extensively in British theatre, including at the Chichester and the Hampstead Theatre, and at the Bristol Old Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, London's West End, the Royal Court, the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the Arts Theatre and the Tricycle Theatre. In 1981 she performed in Mike Leigh's West End theatre play Goosepimples, for which she received a Plays and Players Award nomination as Most Promising Newcomer.[5] In 2007, with the Shared Experience company she received a TMA nomination as Best Supporting Performance for her role in Kindertransport.[6]

Bailey appeared in Mike Leigh's Grief at the National Theatre (2011/12).[7] In 2013 she played the Queen in Handbagged at the Tricycle Theatre and in the production's subsequent West End transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre.[8] She returned to the National Theatre to appear in Carrie Cracknell's productions Blurred Lines (2015) and The Deep Blue Sea (2016).

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1994 Don't Get Me Started Gill Lane
1999 Nasty Neighbours Jean Peach
2000 Offending Angels False Mentor
2002 All or Nothing Carol
2003 I'll Be There Mary
2004 Vera Drake Mrs. Fowler
2006 The Sickie Carol Short
2008 Domestic Flight Susan Short
2010 Toast Mrs. Adams Short
2014 Mr. Turner Sophia Booth
2015 Fuel to Fire Dena Monk
2015 The Lady in the Van Housekeeper in Convent
2015 National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea Mrs Elton
2016 Allied Mrs. Sinclair
2016 First Julia Short
2018 Dead in a Week or Your Money Back Penny
2018 Peterloo Lady Conyngham
2018 The Therapist Short
2019 Brighton Dinah
2022 Tommies Mrs. Willis Short
TBA Good Boy Jackie Short
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1975 The Girls of Slender Means Dormitory Girl Miniseries (3 episodes)
1983 Jury Chloe McCormack Series 1, episodes 3 & 4
1983 Meantime Barbara TV movie
1984 All the World's a Stage Extract from Woyzeck Miniseries (1 episode)
1984 Raspberry Chris TV movie
1984 Miracles Take Longer Juliet Arnold 3 episodes
1984 Charlie Susan Alexander Miniseries (4 episodes)
1984 Sakharov Ludmilla Kovalov TV movie
1984 Scene Mrs. Piper Series 17, episode 3
1984 Big Deal Alison Diamond Series 1 (3 episodes)
1985 Summer Season Joanna Potter Series 1, episode 17
1985 Summer Season Hotel Receptionist Series 1, episode 25
1986 To Have and to Hold Ann Fletcher Miniseries (8 episodes)
1987 Way Upstream June TV movie
1988 Worlds Beyond Norma Moran Series 1, episode 12
1988 Coppers Julia TV movie
1988 The Bretts Agnes Series 2, episode 5
1989 Inspector Morse Fran Pierce Series 3, episode 4
1989 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Ros Swan Series 1, (3 episodes)
1990 Stay Lucky Jane Rowlands Series 2, episode 5
1990 Casualty Joy Waddington Series 5, episode 5
1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot Jane Mason Series 3, episode 4
1992 The Bill Dorothy Strafford Series 8, episode 26
1992 Boon Sheila Series 7, episode 10
1993 The Chief Isabelle Melly Series 3, episode 4
1994 A Touch of Frost Eileen Grant Series 2, episode 3
1994 The Bill Elizabeth Dreyfon Series 10, episode 17
1994 Casualty Anna Longford Series 9, episode 10
1995 Dangerfield Angie Millwood Series 1, episode 3
1995 Shine on Harvey Moon Avis Series 5 (7 episodes)
1997 Dalziel and Pascoe Lorraine Wildgoose Series 2, episode 2
1998 Heat of the Sun Gwladys Carstairs Miniseries (1 episode)
1998 The Bill Delia Shaw Series 14, episode 32
2000 The Thing About Vince... Wendy Skinner Miniseries (3 episodes)
2001 Shades Caroline MacIntyre Series 1, episode 6
2001 Micawber Lady Macefield Series 1, episode 2
2005 Cherished Marion Harding TV movie
2005 Derailed Diana Kellow TV movie
2007 The Bill Jess Parker Series 23, episode 20
2007 Persuasion Mrs. Croft TV movie
2007 New Tricks Brenda Series 4, episode 7
2008 Holby City Lesley Bingham Series 10, episode 13
2008 Midsomer Murders Alyssa Bradley Series 11, episode 3
2009 Monday Monday Clara Series 1, episode 6
2010–13 Him & Her Jill Series 1–4 (4 episodes)
2010 Toast Mrs. Adams TV movie
2011 Being Human Ruth Series 3, episode 6
2011 Case Histories Gloria Hatter Series 1, episodes 3 & 4
2015 The Trials of Jimmy Rose Sue Anderson Miniseries (3 episodes)
2017 SS-GB Joan Woods Miniseries (1 episode)
2019 Temple Ingrid Series 1, episode 4
2019 Britannia Cara Series 2 (3 episodes)
2019–20 The Crown Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Series 3–4 (18 episodes)
2021 Endeavour Hilda Bruce-Potter Series 8, episode 3
2022 This Is Going to Hurt Callie's Mother Series 1, episode 1
2022 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Edie Brosnan Series 4, episode 7
2022 Drømmeren Lady Islington Series 1, episode 2
2023 Obsession Elizabeth Miniseries (3 episodes)

References

  1. "Archived copy". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Kellaway, Kate (30 October 2010). "Mike Leigh's women". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  3. Billen, Andrew. "Terry Johnson on theatre and Hitchcock blondes". The Times. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  4. "Variety". Variety.com. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  5. "Mike Leigh: Profile of a Playwright". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  6. "Hammersmith leads London TMA nominations". Officiallondontheatre.com. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  7. Spencer, Charles (22 September 2011). "Grief, National Theatre, review". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  8. Walker, Tim (13 April 2014). "Handbagged, at Vaudeville Theatre, review". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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