Juliet Stevenson Biography|Juliet Stevenson Actress
Juliet Stevenson (born Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson), CBE is an English actress of stage and screen, known best for her role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply of 1991, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her other film appearances include Emma (1996), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Being Julia (2004), and Infamous (2006).
Juliet Stevenson Age
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, on 30th October 1956, she is 63 years of age.
Juliet Stevenson Family
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, to Virginia Ruth (née Marshall), a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer. Her father was assigned a new posting every two and a half years.
She attended Berkshire’s Hurst Lodge School, and was later educated at the independent St Catherine’s School in Bramley, near Guildford in Surrey, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She was part of the ‘new wave’ of actors to emerge from the Academy. This led to a stage career starting in 1978 with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Juliet Stevenson Husband
Stevenson is married and lives with anthropologist Hugh Brody, since 1993. They have two children, both born in Camden, London: Rosalind Hannah Brody (born 1994) and Gabriel Jonathan Brody (born late 2000/early 2001). They currently live in Highgate, North London.
In 1992 she appeared in a political broadcast for the Labour Party. In 2008 she campaigned on behalf of refugee women with a reading of ‘Motherland’ at the Young Vic. She is the patron of the UK registered charity LAM Action, which provides support, information and encouragement to patients with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and their families, and raises funds to advance research into LAM.
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Juliet Stevenson Career
She has gained fame through her television and film work, though she has often undertaken roles for BBC Radio. As a stage actress, her significant stage roles include her performances as Isabella in Measure for Measure, Madame de Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, as Anna in the UK premiere of Burn This in 1990, and as Paulina in Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court Theatre and the West End (1991–92). She was awarded the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.
In the 1987 TV film Life Story, She played the part of scientist Rosalind Franklin, for which she won a Cable Ace award. She played the leading role in the Anthony Minghella film Truly, Madly, Deeply of 1991 and also had roles in The Secret Rapture of 1993, Emma of 1996, Bend It Like Beckham of 2002 and Mona Lisa Smile of 2003.
In 2003, she played the mother of an autistic child in the television film Hear the Silence, a film based on the now-debunked claims of Andrew Wakefield that the MMR vaccine was responsible for autism.
In 2006, she starred in Pierrepoint, in Infamous as Diana Vreeland and in Breaking and Entering as Rosemary, the therapist.
In 2009, she starred in ITV’s A Place of Execution. whose role won her the Best Actress Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. She performs as a book reader and has recorded all of Jane Austen’s novels as unabridged audiobooks, as well as a number of other novels, such as Lady Windermere’s Fan, Hedda Gabler, Stories from Shakespeare, and To the Lighthouse. She received a lifetime achievement prize at Women In Film And TV Awards.
Juliet Stevenson Movies|Juliet Stevenson Films
- 2019: Queens of Mystery as Narrator
- 2017: 1066: A Year to Conquer England as Narrator
- 2016: One of Us as Louise Elliot
- 2015: X Company as Mayor Marie Bellaire
- 2015: The Enfield Haunting as Betty Grosse
- 2015: Artsnight as Contributor
- 2014: On Angel Wings as Mary
- 2013–14: The Village as Clem Allingham
- 2013–15: Atlantis as The Oracle
- 2012: White Heat as Charlotte
- 2011: Lewis as Diana Ellerby
- 2011: The Hour as Lady Elms
Juliet Stevenson Audiobooks
List of Titles read in Juliet’s audiobooks;
- Bliss and Other Stories (unabridged)
- Daniel Deronda (Unabridged)
- Emma (abridged)
- Emma (Unabridged)
- From Shakespeare – with love (selections)
- The Golden Bowl (unabridged)
- The Golden Notebook (Unabridged)
- Hedda Gabler (unabridged)J
- Jacob’s Room (Unabridged)
- The Jane Austen Collection – Volume 1 (abridged)
- The Jane Austen Collection – Volume 2 (abridged)
- Jane Austen – The Complete Novels (Unabridged)
- Krapp’s Last Tape (unabridged)
- Lady Windermere’s Fan (unabridged)
- Madame Bovary (Unabridged)
- Mansfield Park (abridged)
- Mansfield Park (Unabridged)
- Middlemarch (unabridged)
- Mrs. Dalloway (unabridged)
- Night and Day (unabridged)
- Northanger Abbey (abridged)
- Northanger Abbey (Unabridged)
- Persuasion (abridged)
- Persuasion (unabridged)
- The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged)
- The Road Home (abridged)
- Sense and Sensibility (abridged)
- Sense and Sensibility (unabridged)
- Stories from Shakespeare (unabridged)
- Stories from Shakespeare 2 (unabridged)
- Stories from Shakespeare 3 (unabridged)
- To the Lighthouse (abridged)
- To the Lighthouse (Unabridged)
- The Voyage Out (Unabridged)
- What Maisie Knew (unabridged)
- The Wings of the Dove (unabridged)