Imogen Stubbs
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Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress.
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[edit] Early life
Imogen Stubbs was born in Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and then Westminster School, where she was one of the "token girls" in the sixth form, she went on to Exeter College, Oxford, where she gained a First Class degree.
She graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen, and has since become an Associate Member of RADA. She achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as Desdemona in "Othello", which was directed by Trevor Nunn. Additional stage work includes Saint Joan the Strand Theatre and Heartbreak House at the Haymarket and in Jessica Lange's London production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1997.
[edit] Personal life
She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children: a son Jesse and a daughter Ellie.
[edit] Filmography
| Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1985 | The Browning Version | Mrs Gilbert | |
| 1988 | The Rainbow | Ursula Brangwen | |
| 1989 | Fellow Traveller | Sarah Atchinson | |
| 1990 | Relatively Speaking | Ginny Whittaker | |
| 1990 | Pasternak | Lara and Olga | (Voices) |
| 1990 | Othello | Desdemona | |
| 1993 | Sandra, C'est la Vie | Marie | |
| 1993 | Anna Lee: Headcase | Anna Lee | |
| 1994 | Anna Lee (TV series) | Anna Lee | 5 episodes |
| 1997 | Mothertime | Suzie | |
| 2000 | Blind Ambition | Annie Thomas | |
| 2000 | Big Kids | Sarah Spiller | |
| 2002 | Township Opera | Narrator | |
| 2005 | Casualty | Chloe Greer | Episode: Running out of Kisses |
| 2006 | Marple: The Moving Finger | Mona Symmington | |
| 2006 | Brief Encounters | Sonia | Episode: Semi-Detached |
| 2009 | New Tricks | Lottie Davenport | Episode: Shadow Show |
| Film | |||
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1982 | Privileged | Imogen | |
| 1986 | Nanou | Nanou | |
| 1988 | Deadline | Lady Romy-Burton | |
| 1988 | A Summer Story | Megan David | |
| 1989 | Erik the Viking | Princess Aud | |
| 1991 | The Wonderer | Narrator | (Voice) |
| 1991 | True Colors | Diana Stiles | |
| 1994 | A Pin For The Butterfly | Mother | |
| 1995 | Jack & Sarah | Sarah | |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Lucy Steele | |
| 1996 | Twelfth Night: Or What You Will | Viola | |
| 2003 | Collusion | Mary Dolphin | |
| 2004 | Dead Cool | Henny | |
| 2006 | Stories of Lost Souls | Friend in crowd | segment "Standing Room Only" |
| 2007 | Behind the Director's Son's Cut | Princess Aud | |
| Self | |||
| Year | Programme | Notes | |
| 1996 | Masterchef | Episode: #7.3 | |
| 1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | ||
| 1998 | Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward | ||
| 2003 | Breakfast with Frost | Episode: dated 4th May | |
| 2004 | 1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards | Presenter | |
| 2007 | Sunday AM | Episode: dated 20th May | |
| 2008 | Richard & Judy | Episode: dated 27th February | |
[edit] Other projects, contributions
- When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) - Shakespeare's "Sonnet 21" ("So it is not with me as with that Muse")
[edit] Writer
In July 2004 Stubbs's play We Happy Few, directed by her husband and starring Juliet Stevenson and Marcia Warren, opened at the Gielgud Theatre, London, after a try-out in Malvern.[1] In September 2008 Reader's Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004-07-06). "We Happy Few". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/we-happy-few-gielgud-theatre-london-755894.html. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ Carter, Meg (2008-09-15). "Digest revamped". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/15/pressandpublishing.facebook. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
