Casting Umbridge

[angry_wangry]

Stephanie Cole as Mrs Figg! Genius idea!!
Also Colm Meaney as Ludo Bagman, I really like that idea. I can also 
see Patricia Routledge as Neville's gran.
As for the others, how about the ol' Queen of Mean, Anne Robinson, 
as Rita Skeeter? She was once a journalist herself so it should be 
familiar territory... :)
And for Umbridge, how about Patsy Byrne? She was Nursey in 
Blackadder, and was also Mrs Gummidge in David Copperfield (along 
with Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Wanamaker, Dawn French, Paul 
Whitehouse and Maggie Smith) Here's some info and pics...

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0126268/
http://www.mgnet.karoo.net/nursiemain.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/davidcopperfield
/whoswho/images/mrs_gummidge.jpg

To hear her speak, if you have RealPlayer: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/interviews/media/patsy1.shtml
(Though obviously she could do other voices...)


Also, how about Rowan Atkinson as Phineas Nigellus in OotP? I 
thought that after reading his "puffed-up pompin-jay" line.


Mad -x-



--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "kirst_inn" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> 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