Casting Umbridge

[kirst_inn]

Apologies, as all this has been discussed before.

Personally, I've always seen Imelda Staunton as Umbridge.
Everyone who isn't convinced that Emma Thompson will be fantastic as 
Trelawny should rent Peter's Friends, which also features Staunton, 
who is about four foot ten, with a wee potato face and frizzy brown 
hair. She was also in Twelfth Night (check 
http://www.finelinefeatures.com/twelfth/index.html  - go to the cast 
and crew site and click on her name for the most Umbridge-y picture I 
have ever seen), and she played Gwyneth Paltrow's nurse in 
Shakespeare in Love.

I agree wholeheartedly with whoever voted for Stephanie Cole as Mrs 
Figg. I have another idea for Judi Dench, though. I'd like to see her 
in a cameo as the square-jawed, monocle-wearing Amelia Bones in OoP.
I wonder if the people who raised concerns about Dench's age for 
Umbridge realise that Patricia Routledge is probably about the same 
age? They stopped making "Keeping Up Appearances" in the early 90s, I 
think, and she was well into her sixties then, surely?
Kirstini