Grotesquerie

Lesley Manville stars as “Nurse Redd.” A hard-nosed nurse assigned to Marshall’s care, Redd puts her patients’ wellbeing a little too far above the needs of their loved ones, blurring the boundaries between professional caregiver and protector.

Career Highlights

Award-winning British actor Lesley Manville has had an expansive career to date across both screen and stage. Manville most recently appeared on screen in the sixth and final season of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series The Crown – reprising her role of Princess Margaret. She also starred in Sam Taylor Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, for StudioCanal. Further upcoming projects include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer opposite Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer for Apple and Cold Storage alongside Liam Neeson.Manville recently appeared as the villainous “Dahlia Archer” in Citadel for Prime Video alongside Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. Notable television credits include Mum, for which she received a Royal Television Society award for Best Female Comedy Performance and two BAFTA nominations for Best Female Performance in a Comedy, and the BBC’s Sherwood, for which Manville received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year’s BAFTA Awards. The series has now been announced for a second season.Notable roles in film include Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, for which Manville received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the titular role as “Mrs. Harris” in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris for Focus Features, earning her a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actress, as well as Let Him Go, Ordinary Love and Misbehaviour.On stage, Manville’s theater credits include Long Day’s Journey into Night (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Ghosts (Olivier Award for Best Actress and Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Grief (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Three Sisters (Clarence Derwent Award) and The Visit. Further credits include Six Degrees of Separation and All About My Mother at the Old Vic Theatre and Some Girls and The Cherry Orchard in the West End.

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Redd puts her patients’ wellbeing a little too far above the needs of their loved ones.

Lesley Manville as Nurse Redd in FX's Grotesquerie with her hair in an updo, wearing red lipstick in a purple coat.

Lesley Manville as Nurse Redd | FX’s Grotesquerie

Grotesquerie

Career Highlights

Micaela Diamond
as Sister Megan Duval

Nicholas Alexander Chavez
as Father Charlie Mayhew

Raven Goodwin
as Merritt Tryon

Lesley Manville as Nurse Redd | FX’s Grotesquerie

Grotesquerie

Micaela Diamondas Sister Megan Duval

Nicholas Alexander Chavezas Father Charlie Mayhew

Raven Goodwinas Merritt Tryon

Micaela Diamond
as Sister Megan Duval

Nicholas Alexander Chavez
as Father Charlie Mayhew

Raven Goodwin
as Merritt Tryon