- Jodhi May
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name = Jodhi May
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birthdate = May birth year and age|1975
birthplace =London ,England
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yearsactive = 1988–present
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tonyawards =Jodhi May (born May 1975) is an English actress.
Early life and career
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 theCannes Film Festival , shared with her co-starsBarbara Hershey andLinda Mvusi . 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. She is often cast as an innocent abused, or an extremely intelligent woman having a breakdown.Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"; as an
incest uouslesbian in "Sister My Sister "; as Florence Banner in theBBC adaptation of "Tipping the Velvet ", QueenAnne Boleyn in the first adaptation of "The Other Boleyn Girl ," and asSabina Spielrein in the play "The Talking Cure". May has also directed a short film, and has a script in development.Personal life
May is half-French and half-German. She is extremely reserved about her family and private life.
elected filmography
* "A World Apart" (1988)
* "Eminent Domain " (1991)
* "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992)
* "Sister My Sister " (1994)
* "The Scarlet Letter" (1995) (voice)
* "The Gambler" (1997)
* "The Woodlanders " (1997)
* "Warriors" (1999)
* "Aristocrats" (1999)
* "The Turn of the Screw " (1999)
* "The House of Mirth " (2000)
* "Tipping the Velvet" (2002) (TV)
* "Daniel Deronda " (2002) (TV)
* "The Mayor of Casterbridge " (2003) (TV)
* "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2003) (TV)
* "Friends and Crocodiles " (2006) (TV)
* "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard " (2006) (TV)External links
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* [http://www.jodhimaydomain.us Jodhi May Domain US (JMDUS), a fansite with cited source material]
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