Jodhi May
{{Short description|British actress (born 1975)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jodhi May
| image = Jodhi May The Movie Blog 2024.png
| caption = Jodhi May (2024)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age | 1975 | 05 | 08 }}{{cite news |last1=Duerden |first1=Nick |title=Jodhi May: The reluctant celebrity |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jodhi-may-the-reluctant-celebrity-6109898.html |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=The Independent |date=4 February 2006 |language=en}}{{cite web |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/jodhi-may_fcb1d89ef53042bdbe68fd67dcbbacfc |title=Jodhi May |publisher=filmportal.de |access-date=28 December 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D141271663 |title=Catalog of the German National Library |publisher=Integrated Authority File |access-date=28 December 2024}}
| birth_place = Camden Town, London, England
| occupation = Actress
| education = Wadham College, Oxford
| othername =
| yearsactive = 1988–present
| spouse =
}}
Jodhi May (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient (age 12) of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, for A World Apart (1988).{{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=Lucy |title=Jodhi May on losing herself in Mark Haddon’s debut play, Polar Bears |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/jodhi-may-on-losing-herself-in-mark-haddons-debut-play-polar-bears-7l9xd0xf79f |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=The Times |date=27 March 2010 |language=en}}
Her other credits include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Sister My Sister (1994), Aristocrats (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), the television adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), The Jury II and I, Anna (2011), A Quiet Passion (2016), Genius (2017), Moving On (2018), Gentleman Jack (2019), The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019), and The Witcher (2019).
Early life
May was born on 8 May 1975 to a French-Turkish mother who was an art teacher and a German father. Film producer Alain Poiré was her godfather and she credits him for inspiring her passion for film while growing up.
May was educated at Camden School for Girls.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4725425/The-anonymous-celebrity.html|title=The anonymous celebrity|author=William Leith|date=4 September 2001|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=30 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930081158/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4725425/The-anonymous-celebrity.html|url-status=live}} She started her acting career at 12 years old and later studied English at Wadham College, Oxford.{{cite web|url= https://movies.yahoo.com/person/jodhi-may/biography.html|title=Jodhi May|work=Yahoo Movies|access-date=14 January 2017|archive-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314205409/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/jodhi-may/biography.html|url-status=live}}
Career
May first acted at the age of 12, in A World Apart (1988).{{Cite web |title=Jodhi May Credits |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jodhi-may/credits/3030468361/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=tvguide.com}} For the role she received a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.{{cite web|url= http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1988/awardCompetition.html |title= Festival de Cannes: Awards 1988 |access-date=5 November 2012 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121105173128/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1988/awardCompetition.html |archive-date=5 November 2012}}
Other roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, Lea Papin in Sister My Sister, Lady Sarah Lennox in Aristocrats, Florence Banner in Tipping the Velvet. Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003). May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller I, Anna, alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman.
In 2018, as a writer, she contributed and appeared in the TV series Moving On. In 2019, she played Queen Calanthe in The Witcher, Netflix's live-action adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's book series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.distractify.com/p/the-witcher-netflix-jodhi-may|title=Meet Jodhi May, the Actress Playing Queen Calanthe in Netflix's 'The Witcher'|website=Distractify|date=31 October 2019 |language=en|access-date=2 January 2020|archive-date=1 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101151919/https://www.distractify.com/p/the-witcher-netflix-jodhi-may|url-status=live}}
In 2020, alongside Valentina Cervi, Francesco Scianna, Filippo Timi, she was in the cast of Marco Simon Puccioni's film The Invisible Thread, produced by Netflix, released in 2022.
Filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="1"|1988
| Molly Roth | Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| rowspan="3"|1990
| Miriam Weiss | TV film |
| The Gift
| Sonia Parsons |
| Eminent Domain
| Ewa | |
| 1991
| For the Greater Good | Rose Kellner | TV film |
| 1992
| Alice Munro | |
| rowspan="2"|1994
| Alice | |
| Sister My Sister
| Lea | Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| rowspan="2"|1995
| Signs and Wonders | Claire Palmore | Main cast |
| The Scarlet Letter
| Pearl |
| rowspan="2"|1997
| Anna Snitkina |
| The Woodlanders
| Marty South | |
| rowspan="3"|1999
| Miniseries |
| Warriors
| Emma | TV film |
| The Turn of the Screw
| The Governess | TV film |
| 2000
| Grace Julia Stepney | |
| rowspan="2"|2001
| Dish | Mo |
| Round About Five
| Bicycle Courier | Short film |
| rowspan="3"|2002
| Florence Banner | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| The Escapist
| Christine | |
| Daniel Deronda
| Mirah Lapidoth | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2003
| Anne Boleyn | TV film |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge
| Elizabeth Jane | TV film |
| 2004
| Blinded | Rachel Black | |
| rowspan="5"|2005
| Angela | |
| Bye Bye Blackbird
| Nina | |
| Friends and Crocodiles
| Lizzie Thomas | TV film |
| The Best Man
| Tania | |
| The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
| Jean Ibbotson | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2006
| Joe's Mother | Uncredited |
| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
| Miranda Lennox | Main cast |
| rowspan="2"|2007
| Geertje | |
| The Street
| Jean Lefferty |1 episode |
| rowspan="3"|2008
| Evelyn Adams | |
| Einstein and Eddington
| TV film |
| Defiance
| Tamara Skidelsky | |
| rowspan="2"|2009
| Emma | Anne Taylor | Miniseries |
| Sleep With Me
| Lelia | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2010
| Blood and Oil | Claire Unwin | TV film |
| Strike Back
| Layla Thompson | Main cast (series 1) |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Katherine Bulmore | Main cast (series 2) |
| I, Anna
| Janet Stone | |
| rowspan="2"|2012
| Anoushka | |
| The Scapegoat
| Blanche | |
| 2013
| Poppy Carlisle | |
| rowspan="2"|2014
| Adelinde Crecy | 1 episode |
| Common
| Coleen O'Shea | |
| rowspan="3"|2015
| Maggy the Frog | Episode: "The Wars to Come" |
| A.D. The Bible Continues
| Leah, wife of Caiaphas | Main cast |
| Crossing Lines
| Evelyn St. Clair | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
| 2016
| |
| rowspan="2"|2017
| Let Me Go | Beth |
| Genius
| 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|2018
| Liz | |
| Down a Dark Hall
| Heather Sinclair | |
| Moving On
| Rachel | Episode: "Invisible" |
| rowspan="3" |2019
| Vere Hobart | 4 episodes |
| The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
| |
| The Witcher
| Queen Calanthe | |
| 2020
| Selma James | Miniseries; 1 episode |
| rowspan="4"|2022
| |
| The Invisible Thread
| Tilly Nolan | |
| Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
| Mary Belcher | |
| The Confessions of Frannie Langton
| Hep Elliot | Miniseries |
| 2023
| Miniseries; 1 episode |
| rowspan="2"|2024
| |
| Dune: Prophecy
| Main cast |
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from London
Category:Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Category:English child actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:English people of Turkish descent
Category:English radio actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English voice actresses
Category:English people of German descent
Category:English people of French descent
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Camden
Category:People educated at Camden School for Girls