Jodhi May

Jodhi May (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress.

Early life

Born in Camden Town, London, May first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's A World Apart. The role earned her a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.^[1] She remains the youngest recipient of the award.

Other than a brief lull while studying English at Wadham College, Oxford, she has had near constant work in the subsequent two decades, and can regularly be seen on film, television and the British stage.

Career

Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans as Lea Papin in Sister My Sister; as Florence Banner in the controversial BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Queen Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and as Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure. May has also directed a short film, and has a script in development. In August 2005, May appeared in Blackbird by David Harrower alongside Roger Allam at the Edinburgh Festival in a production by German star director Peter Stein. The play got a transfer to the Albery Theatre in London in February 2006. Blackbird subsequently won a best new play award.

In 2010 she played the lead role of Kay in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse. She is due to star as Janet Stone in upcoming noir thriller I, Anna, alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan and Honor Blackman.

ITV1 has confirmed her as part of the cast of its 2012 adaption of Daphne du Maurier's novel The Scapegoat.^[2]

Filmography

References

External links

• Jodhi May at the Internet Movie Database