OBE Nominations for Actresses from Harry Potter Movies

Lest we forget that women in England can be knighted, or made a dame as the case may be, I have prepared my list of nominations for actresses from Harry Potter for her majesty's perusal when next she awards the OBEs.

Imelda Staunton: Delores Umbridge. Dimpled, spunky Imelda Staunton plays the genteel tea-sipping scourge of Hogwarts Academy. Staunton's talents have graced the cast list of Cranford, Nanny McPhee, Sense and Sensibility (also with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson) and the 1999 David Copperfield in which Imelda Staunton plays Mrs. Micawber with little Daniel Radcliffe in the title role and Dame Maggie Smith as Aunt Bessie Trotwood.

Pam Ferris: Aunt Dursley. Pam Ferris roles feature her talent for accents as well as her excellent diction and impressive stage presence. In the British mystery series, Rosemary and Thyme, Pam Ferris plays master gardener, ex-copper Laura Thyme with another notable British actress Felicity Kendall. Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington, with Geraldine McEwan is another of Ferris's better known roles.

Frances de la Tour: Madame Olympe Maxime (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire): The deep-voiced, remarkably gifted Frances de la Tour is a frequent flyer in Agatha Christie films, usually as women of obscure or 'whole is greater than the sum of the parts' characters. Frances de la Tour first appeared as Juliet Bellever in Agatha Christie's They do it With Mirrors, opposite the redoubtable forces of Sir John Mills, Helen Hayes and Bette Davis. She has played Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop in The Moving Finger, prescient wife of the studious, absent-minded vicar whose rural village is being torn about by poison pen letters. As Salome Otterbourne in the new David Suchet Death on the Nile, Frances de la Tour shows us the less comic side of this not so ridiculous damsel. In case you can't just call to mind Frances de la Tour, you will see her as Aunt Imogene in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Julie Waters: I think that the true person of Julie Waters may get hidden beneath the weighty roles she has played. In Calendar Girls, she played a grieving widow turned pin-up girl. In the slightly kitschy, hugely popular remake of Mamma Mia! Julie plays Rosie. My favorite role for Julie Waters is as the horrifying Mrs. Holland in the Masterpiece Mystery! Sally Lockhart Mysteries, The Ruby in the Smoke. This is an eminently fascinating series of stories written by The Golden Compass author Phillip Pullman. In Harry Potter, Julie Waters plays the charming mother of the Weasley brood, Molly Weasley.

Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration.