It is perhaps fitting that Imelda Staunton ended up playing Queen Elizabeth II in the last two series of The Crown, considering she has been acting royalty for years. View image in fullscreen Bafta-winning role … Imelda Staunton, left, with Daniel Mays in Vera Drake. Then came Leigh’s Vera Drake, in which she plays a warm-hearted cleaner who secretly carries out illegal abortions in 1950s London. View image in fullscreen A terrifying pink cardigan … Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix. Now Staunton is here to answer your questions so please post them below by 6pm on Wednesday 5 August, we’ll put the best to Snutty and publish her answers in Film & Music.