Imogen Stubbs
| Imogen Stubbs | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 February 1961 Northumberland, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Trevor Nunn (m. 1994–2011) |
| Children | Jesse Ellie |
Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and playwright.
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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. She was educated at two private schools, St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the "token girls" in the sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree. Her acting career started with Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse and her first professional success, while still at RADA, was as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.[1]
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
In 1994 she married Sir Trevor Nunn, thus giving her the courtesy title of Lady Nunn.[2] They have two children:[3] a son Jesse and a daughter Ellie. It was announced in April 2011 that she and Nunn were to separate.[4]
[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 | |
| 1992 | After the Dance (play) | Helen | BBC2 television production by Stuart Burge |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | So What Now? | Chloe | |
| 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 Wanderer | 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 | |
| 2000 | Snow on Saturday | Director, Co-writer | Winner, "UCI Cinemas Award" best British short film |
| 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 4 May | |
| 2004 | 1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards | Presenter | |
| 2006/7, 2011 | Sunday AM | Newspaper Reviewer | |
| 2008 | Richard & Judy | Episode: dated 27 February | |
[edit] Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Cabaret | Sally Bowles | Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich |
| 1986 | The Rover | Helena | Swan Theatre, Stratford |
| 1986 | Two Noble Kinsmen | Gaoler's daughter | The Other Place, Stratford |
| 1987 | Richard II | Queen Isabel | Swan |
| 1989 | Othello | Desdemona | The Other Place |
| 1992 | Heartbreak House | Ellie | Theatre Royal, Haymarket |
| 1994 | Saint Joan | Joan | Strand Theatre |
| 1994 | Uncle Vanya | Yelena | Chichester Festival |
| 1996 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella | Theatre Royal, Haymarket |
| 1998 | Closer | Anna | Lyric Theatre, London |
| 1998 | Betrayal | Emma | National Theatre |
| 2001 | The Relapse | Amanda | National |
| 2002 | Three Sisters | Masha | Theatre Royal, Bath (and tour) |
| 2003 | Mum's the Word | Linda | Albery Theatre |
| 2004 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Old Vic |
| 2006 | Duchess of Malfi | Duchess | West Yorkshire Playhouse |
| 2009 | Alphabetical Order | Lucy | Hampstead Theatre |
| 2010 | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda | Shared Experience |
| 2011 | Private Lives | Amanda | Manchester Royal Exchange |
| 2011 | Little Eyolf | Rita | Jermyn Street Theatre, London |
[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.[9] In September 2008 Reader's Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Barnett, Laura (9 March 2010). "Imogen Stubbs, actor". The Guardian (London): p. G2-23.
- ^ Montague-Smith, Patrick (1970). Debrett's Correct Form. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-7472-0658-9.
- ^ "Nunn, Sir Trevor (Robert)". Who's Who. Oxford, England: A & C Black. 2011.
- ^ "Imogen Stubbs and Sir Trevor Nunn separate after 21 years". Daily Telegraph. 2011-04-25. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8471249/Imogen-Stubbs-and-Sir-Trevor-Nunn-separate-after-21-years.html. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
- ^ "Stubbs, Imogen Mary, (Lady Nunn)". Who's Who. Oxford, England: A & C Black. 2011.
- ^ Trowbridge, Simon (2008). "Imogen Stubbs". Stratfordians: a biographical dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford, England: Editions Albert Creed. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-9559830-1-6.
- ^ Gardner, Lynn (8 March 2011). "Private Lives – review". The Guardian . http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/08/private-lives-review. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ Coveney, Michael (9 May 2011). "Little Eyolf, Jermyn Street Theatre, London". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/little-eyolf-jermyn-street-theatre-london-2281122.html. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ 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.
[edit] External links
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- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- English dramatists and playwrights
- English film actors
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- Living people
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