Marcia Warren

English actress

Marcia Warren
Born	(1943-11-26) 26 November 1943 (age 80) Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1970–present

Marcia Warren (born 26 November 1943) is an English stage, film and television actress. On stage, she appeared in Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati and The Sea (2008) at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In 2022 and 2023, she starred as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in seasons 5 and 6 of the Netflix historical drama series The Crown.

She is a two-time Olivier Award winner.

Early life

Warren trained as an actress at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1963. From there on she took the path of many of her performing contemporaries, acting in repertory throughout the country – beginning as an assistant stage manager in David Copperfield in Salisbury.

Career

From 1983 to 1986 she played Vera in the BBC sitcom, No Place Like Home. From 2013 to 2016, she played the role of Penelope in the ITV sitcom Vicious and also starred in the 2014 sitcom Edge of Heaven as Nanny Mo. She has also appeared in Keeping Up Appearances, Midsomer Murders and Inside No. 9.

Awards

She has won two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role—one in 1984 for Stepping Out^[1] and the other in 2002 for Humble Boy at the Royal National Theatre.^[2] She was also nominated for another in 2001 for In Flame at the New Ambassadors Theatre.^[3] For her role as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The Crown, Warren has received two nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1986	Mr. Love	Doris Lovelace
1994	Don't Get Me Started	Pauline Lewis
2004	Gladiatress	Queen Tuathfhlaifthfth
2005	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont	Vera Post
2005	The Jealous God	Mrs. Dungarvan
2011	Hattie	Esma Cannon
2012	Run for Your Wife	Woman on seat
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Lubliana

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Public Eye	Waitress	"Girl in Blue"
1983–1986	No Place Like Home	Vera Botting	sitcom
1986	We'll Think of Something	Maureen Brooks	ITV sitcom
1986	I Woke Up One Morning	Doris	BBC sitcom
1991	Miss Pym's Day Out	Dora Caldicote
1992	Keeping Up Appearances	Bunty	sitcom
1995	Searching	Chancy's Mum	sitcom
1996–1998	Dangerfield	Angela Wakefield	drama
2000	Coronation Street	Gladys Braithwaite	guest role
2003–2004	My Dad's the Prime Minister	Granny Philips	sitcom
2006	Housewife, 49	Mrs Lord
2006, 2008	Jam & Jerusalem	Lady Anne Crump	sitcom
2007	Midsomer Murders	Melissa Shrike	“Death in a Chocolate Box” (Series 10, Episode 8)
2008	Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills & Boon	Elsie	BBC Four drama
2008	The Long Walk to Finchley	Old Dear	BBC Four drama
2009	Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas	Arnica
2011	The Café	Alice Dobson	Sky1
2013–2016	Vicious	Penelope	ITV sitcom
2014	Father Brown	Miss. Audrey Diggle	"The Pride of the Prydes" Episode 2.3
2014	Edge of Heaven	Nanny Mo	ITV sitcom
2014	Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death	Mrs. Boggle	Sky1
2015	Crackanory	Dolly Coblington	Series 3, Episode 6
2017	Sherlock	Vivian Norbury	"The Six Thatchers" (Series 4, Episode 1)
2017	Josh	Violet	Series 3, Episode 4
2018	Inside No. 9	Alice	"Zanzibar" (Series 4, Episode 1)
2019	Don’t Forget the Driver	Joy	Series 1
2019	Not Going Out	Mrs. Hoskins	Halloween Special (Series 10, Episode 8)
2019	Midsomer Murders	Belinda Braun	“The Causton Lions” (Series 20, Episode 4)
2022–2023	The Crown	Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	Main role (Seasons 5–6)^[5]
2023	Beyond Paradise	Floella	Episode 5

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness	Margot Carvier (voice only)
2014	Dark Souls II	Morrel/Merchant Hag Melentia (voice only)

References

^ "Olivier Winners 1984". Official London Theatre. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "Olivier Winners 2002". Official London Theatre. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "Olivier Winners 2001". Official London Theatre. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "Nominations Announced for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" (Press release). Screen Actors Guild. 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
^ Veteran actress Marcia Warren cast as The Queen Mother in 'The Crown' MediaMole TV News, August 3, 2021

External links

Marcia Warren at IMDb
20 Questions ... Marcia Warren. WhatsOnStage, 2003-2-10

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role

1976–1984

Merged	Margaret Courtenay (1976)
Actor	Nigel Hawthorne (1977) Robert Eddison (1978) Patrick Stewart (1979) David Threlfall (1980) Joe Melia (1981) David Healy (1982) Alan Devlin (1983) Edward Petherbridge (1984)
Actress	Mona Washbourne (1977) Elizabeth Spriggs (1978) Doreen Mantle (1979) Suzanne Bertish (1980) Gwen Watford (1981) Anna Massey (1982) Abigail McKern (1983) Marcia Warren (1984)

1985–1990

Merged	Imelda Staunton (1985) Paul Jesson (1986) Michael Bryant (1987) Eileen Atkins (1988) Michael Bryant (1989/1990)

1991–1995

Actor	David Bradley (1991) Oleg Menshikov (1992) Julian Glover (1993) Joseph Mydell (1994) Ken Stott (1995)
Actress	Sara Crowe (1991) Frances de la Tour (1992) Barbara Leigh-Hunt (1993) Helen Burns (1994) Dora Bryan (1995)

1996–2002

Actor	Trevor Eve (1997) Roger Allam (2000) Ben Daniels (2001) Toby Jones (2002)
Actress	Deborah Findlay (1997) Patricia Hodge (2000) Essie Davis (2001) Marcia Warren (2002)
Merged	Simon Russell Beale (1996) Sarah Woodward (1998) Brendan Coyle (1999)

2003–2009

Merged	Essie Davis (2003) Warren Mitchell (2004) Amanda Harris (2005) Noma Dumezweni (2006) Jim Norton (2007) Rory Kinnear (2008) Patrick Stewart (2009)

2010–present

Actor	Eddie Redmayne (2010) Adrian Scarborough (2011) Richard McCabe (2013) Jack Lowden (2014) Nathaniel Parker (2015) Mark Gatiss (2016) Anthony Boyle (2017) Bertie Carvel (2018) Chris Walley (2019) Adrian Scarborough (2020) No Ceremony (2021) Fred Davis, Daisy Franks, Romina Hytten, Tom Larkin, Habib Nasib Nader, Tom Stacy and Scarlet Wilderink (2022) Will Keen (2023) Will Close (2024)
Actress	Ruth Wilson (2010) Michelle Terry (2011) Nicola Walker (2013) Sharon D. Clarke (2014) Angela Lansbury (2015) Judi Dench (2016) Noma Dumezweni (2017) Denise Gough (2018) Monica Dolan (2019) Indira Varma (2020) No Ceremony (2021) Liz Carr (2022) Anjana Vasan (2023) Haydn Gwynne (2024)
Merged	Sheridan Smith (2012)