Jodhi May | |
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 Jodhi May (2024) | |
| Born | (1975-05-08)May 8, 1975 (age 50)[1][2][3] Camden Town,London, England |
| Education | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Jodhi May (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is theyoungest recipient (age 12) of theCannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, forA World Apart (1988).[4]
Her other credits includeThe Last of the Mohicans (1992),Sister My Sister (1994),Aristocrats (1999),Tipping the Velvet (2002), the television adaptation ofThe Other Boleyn Girl (2003),The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006),The Jury II andI, Anna (2011),A Quiet Passion (2016),Genius (2017),Moving On (2018),Gentleman Jack (2019),The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019), andThe Witcher (2019).
May was born on 8 May 1975[2] to a French-Turkish mother who was an art teacher and a German father. Film producerAlain Poiré was her godfather and she credits him for inspiring her passion for film while growing up.[4]
May was educated atCamden School for Girls.[5] She started her acting career at 12 years old and later studiedEnglish atWadham College, Oxford.[6]
Casting directorSusie Figgis discovered May when she was a school in Camden.[7] May first acted at the age of 12, inA World Apart (1988).[8] For the role she received aBest Actress award at the1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-starsBarbara Hershey andLinda Mvusi.[9]
Other roles have included Alice Munro inMichael Mann'sThe Last of the Mohicans,[8]Lea Papin inSister My Sister,[8]Lady Sarah Lennox inAristocrats, Florence Banner inTipping the Velvet.[8]Anne Boleyn inthe first adaptation ofThe Other Boleyn Girl (2003).[8] May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thrillerI, Anna, alongsideGabriel Byrne,Charlotte Rampling,Eddie Marsan, andHonor Blackman.[8]
In 2018, as a writer, she contributed and appeared in the TV seriesMoving On.[8] In 2019, she played Queen Calanthe inThe Witcher,Netflix's live-action adaptation ofAndrzej Sapkowski's book series.[10]
In 2020, alongsideValentina Cervi,Francesco Scianna,Filippo Timi, she was in the cast ofMarco Simon Puccioni's filmThe Invisible Thread, produced byNetflix, released in 2022.
