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Sometimes a family’s opinion about a forebear can be wrong, as the award-winning actress discovers
Actress Lesley Manville CBE is a big hitter of British film and TV, having been nominated as best actress in both the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
In recent times she has starred as Princess Margaret in The Crown and had a lead role in Magpie Murders, and in the past she has been in everything from Emmerdale to Mr Turner.
She doesn’t feel she particularly knows her roots, however: ‘Through understanding where I’ve come from, I’m hoping to understand myself more,‘ she says in her episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, the last in the 2023 series (scheduled for 27 July).
Her mother Nora was a glamorous dancer and her father Ronald, variously a bookmaker and taxi driver, loved singing, so her immediate family background certainly fed into her career as an entertainer.
But what about further back?
One family photo shows the t