W hen her daughter Bessie was small, Imelda Staunton would read her bedtime stories. “I’d say something like, ‘And then the witch came in,’” says Staunton, cackling away like a wrinkled ...

Bessie Carter and Imelda Staunton attend the after party for "Sondheim's Old Friends" at The Prince of Wales Theatre on May 3, 2022 in London. Dave Benett/Getty Staunton shares her daughter with ...

Imelda Staunton and Daughter Bessie Carter Will Lead MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION . The production will open at the Garrick Theatre on 22 May, with previews from 10 May, and run until 16 August.

Martin Freeman, Jack Lowden and Imelda Staunton star in National Theatre Live's cinema releases, bringing stage productions ...

Imelda Staunton and Bridgerton's Bessie Carter are the mother-daughter duo everyone is taking note of right now, having taken their real-life relationship to the acting scene for the very first ...

Imelda Staunton says acting on stage alongside her daughter Bessie Carter feels “completely normal. The pair are working together for the first time in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession at ...

Written in 1893, George Bernard Shaw's morality play "Mrs Warren's Profession" was so scandalous at the time, it was banned by the Lord Chamberlain and not performed publicly in London until 1925 ...

“We are mother and daughter!” cries Imelda Staunton at one of the agonising pinch points in Mrs Warren’s Profession.It’s a line that acquires even more sting than usual as the implacable ...

Famous family: Imelda Staunton pictured with husband Jim Carter and daughter Bessie at the 2005 Academy Awards (Getty) She turns back to Bessie. “We had Vera Drake before Harry,” she reminds her.

The big draw is the casting of real life mother and daughter - Imelda Staunton and Bessie (Bridgerton) Carter - as wealthy ’businesswoman’ Mrs Kitty Warren and her estranged daughter Vivie.

When her daughter Bessie was small, Imelda Staunton would read her bedtime stories. “I’d say something like, ‘And then the witch came in,’” says Staunton, cackling away like a wrinkled old woman. “And ...