Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an
English actress of stage and screen.
Background
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevens was born in
Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth (née
Marshall), a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevens, an army officer.
Stevenson
was educated at the independent St Catherine's
School
in Bramley, near Guildford
in Surrey, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(RADA). Stevenson was part of 'new wave’ of actors to emerge
from the Academy. Others included
Jonathan Pryce,
Bruce
Payne,
Alan Rickman,
Anton Lesser,
Kenneth Branagh and
Fiona Shaw. This led to a stage career starting
in the early 1980s with the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career
Although she has gained fame through her television and film work,
and has often undertaken roles for
BBC
Radio, she is most notably known as a stage actress.
Significant stage roles include her lead performance as Anna in the
UK premiere of
Burn This in 1990,
and as Paulina in
Death and the
Maiden in 1991. For the latter, she was awarded the 1992
Laurence Olivier
Award for Best Actress.
Stevenson is best known for her leading role in the film
Truly, Madly, Deeply
(1991), and her roles in The Secret Rapture (1993),
Emma (1996),
Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and
Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She
has more recently starred in
Pierrepoint (2006) (U.S. title
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman),
Infamous (2006) as
Diana Vreeland and
Breaking and Entering
(2006) as Rosemary, the therapist.
In 2009, she starred in ITV's
A
Place of Execution. The role won her the Best Actress
Dagger at the 2009
Crime Thriller
Awards.
Personal life
She has
two children, both born in Camden
, London: Rosalind Hannah Brody (born 1994) and
Gabriel Jonathan Brody (born late 2000/early 2001).
She is an
atheist, but considers herself a
spiritual and superstitious person.
She has been a critic of the
MMR
vaccine, as well as a supporter of the controversial Dr
Andrew Wakefield. In 1992, she
appeared in a political broadcast for the
Labour Party.
Filmography
Other projects, contributions
References
- http://www.filmreference.com/film/68/Juliet-Stevenson.html
- According to Who's Who on Television (1982 edition)
-
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98526/Olivier-Winners-1992/
- Births
England and Wales Births 1984-2006
-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article3553335.ece
-
http://www.secularism.org.uk/comingoutasatheistbillyconnollyj.html
- Transcript of Labour Party video
- Labour Party video
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