Harry Potter New TV Show: 25 Castings That Must Happen

7. Olivia Colman As Umbridge

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Stepping into the shoes of Dolores Umbridge, one of the most purely unlikable characters in recent memory, would be a daunting task for any actress. But if there's one actress who could do it, it's Olivia Colman.

Given what a likable actress Colman is offscreen (and in most of her roles) this might seem like an odd choice at first, but two things should be remembered: one, she's a very versatile actress, and two, she has actually played an Umbridge-like character before.

She was wonderfully hateful as the Godmother in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's smash-hit Fleabag, a passive-aggressive villain who really made your skin crawl. It'd be very, very hard to match Imelda Staunton's note-perfect performance as the character in the films, but Colman, who is easily one of the finest actresses in Britain, could definitely take a good stab at it.

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