Juliet Aubrey
{{Short description|British actress (born 1966)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Juliet Aubrey
| image =
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| birthname = Juliet Emma Aubrey
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|12|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Fleet, Hampshire, England
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| alma mater = Central School of Speech and Drama
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Steve Ritchie|2001}}
| children = 2
| yearsactive = 1991–present
}}
Juliet Emma Aubrey (born 17 December 1966) is a British actress; She won the 1995 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for playing Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch (1994). She is also known for her role as Helen Cutter in the ITV series Primeval (2007–2011). Other credits include Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993), Go Now (1995), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Food of Love (1997), Still Crazy (1998), Iris (2001), The Constant Gardener (2005), Criminal Justice (2008), Five Daughters (2010), Hunted (2012), The White Queen (2012), The Infiltrator (2016), and Snatch (2017-2018).
Early life
The youngest of three siblings, Aubrey was born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire.{{cite web|url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/22583200.juliet-aubrey-hampshire-roots-acting-career-future-ambitions/ |title= Juliet Aubrey on Hampshire roots, her acting career and future |work= ambitionsgreatbritishlife.co.uk |date= 16 November 2016 }} Her first experience of acting was at her school, playing a doctor in George and the Dragon on stage at St Nicholas' School, Hampshire at the age of six. She then attended the Roman Catholic private school Farnborough Hill in Farnborough, Hampshire, and still attends reunions with her old schoolfriends whenever possible (2016).
She furthered her education from 1984, at King's College London, where she studied Classics and Archaeology. During her time as a student, she spent a year studying in Italy, touring with a travelling theatre company. Passionate about acting, she applied successfully to train for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cssd.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/high-profile-alumni|title=Central School of Speech and Drama High Profile Alumni |work=cssd.ac.uk|access-date=5 January 2022|url-status=live |archive-date=6 May 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220506015319/https://www.cssd.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/high-profile-alumni }}
Career
In 1991, she toured with the Oxford Stage Company, playing Miranda in The Tempest. In 1993, Italian director Roberto Faenza gave Aubrey her first film role playing opposite Jean-Hugues Anglade in Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993), an Italian film set during the Nazi Holocaust. In 1994, Antony Page and Louis Marks then cast Aubrey as Dorothea in the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch, opposite Rufus Sewell, for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress, and the Broadcasting Press Guild for Best Actress.{{cite web |title=Awards 1995 |url=http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/awards/1995.html |publisher=broadcastingpressguild.org |access-date=16 November 2012 |archive-date=9 July 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120709195958/http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/awards/1995.html |url-status=dead }}
In theatre, she has appeared in Trevor Nunn's Summerfolk (1999), and Katie Mitchell's Ivanov (2002), at the National Theatre, Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree for Karl James at the Soho Theatre, and Chris White's Three Sisters, Twelfth Night and The Collection.{{cite web|url= https://theartistspartnership.co.uk/artist/juliet-aubrey/ | title= Juliet Aubrey (TAP)|work= theartistspartnership.co.uk |access-date= 3 April 2025}}
In 1995, Michael Winterbottom cast her opposite Robert Carlyle and James Nesbitt in the television film Go Now.{{cite web|url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/juliet-aubrey/credits/3000255708/ | title= Juliet Aubrey Credits |work= tvguide.com |access-date= 3 April 2025}}
Aubrey's subsequent films include Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Stephen Poliakoff's Food of Love, for which she won Best Actress at La Baule European Film Festival{{cite web|title= La Baule European Film Festival – Food of Love |url= https://en.unifrance.org/movie/13794/food-of-love |work=en.unifrance.org |access-date= February 23, 2014}} Faenza's Lost Lover, Giacomo Campiotti's Time to Love, Richard Eyre's Iris, Fernando Meirelles's Constant Gardener, (alongside Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz) and Brian Gibson's Still Crazy, nominated for two Golden Globes. Other features include Mat Cod's Super Eruption. Television work includes Primeval (2007), The White Queen (2012), Criminal Justice (2008), Vera, Hunted (2012), and Five Daughters. Her recent feature films are Scott Hicks's Fallen; Mitch Davis's Stuck; Fabio Guaglione's Mine; and worked with Bryan Cranston in Brad Furman's Infiltrator.{{cite web|url= https://www.livingnorth.com/article/award-winning-actress-juliet-aubrey-love-northumberland-theatre-performing | title=Award-winning Actress Juliet Aubrey's Love for Northumberland, Theatre and Performing |work= livingnorth.com |date= 1 December 2016 |access-date= 3 April 2025}}
Aubrey played Lily Hill, working alongside Rupert Grint and Phoebe Dynevor in the television series Snatch.
BBC Radio 4 The Archers (2024) as Eve Chilcott.
Personal life
In 2001, Aubrey married production designer Steve Ritchie, whom she had met several years earlier while filming an ITV adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Moth in Newcastle upon Tyne.{{cite web|url= https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/juliet-shares-royal-love-story-3851169 | title= Juliet shares in a royal love story |work= gazettelive.co.uk |date= 2 June 2002}} They have two daughters.{{cite web |first=Daphne |last=Lockyer |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10080259/The-memory-of-my-sister-inspires-everything-I-do.html|title=The Memory of my sister inspires everything I do|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |date=25 May 2013 |access-date=14 November 2013}}
She is a cousin of David Howell Evans (a.k.a. "The Edge"), guitarist of the Irish band U2.{{cite news |last=Rees|first =Clare|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Green+goddess%3B+With+Primeval+back+on+our+screens,+Juliet+Aubrey's...-a0197582242
|title=Green goddess; With Primeval back on our screens, Juliet Aubrey's playing nasty again. The award-winning actress tells Claire Rees about being an eco-warrior — and how bad girl Helen Cutter is really a great role model|publisher=thefreelibrary.com |date=11 April 2009 |access-date=19 November 2012|newspaper =Western Mail}}
She is a keen runner, intends to run the Great North Run and a marathon (2016).
Filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Director / Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"| 1992
| Brunette at dance (uncredited) | David Seltzer |
| The Big Battalions
| Susan | TV series (2 episodes) |
| rowspan="2"| 1993
| The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | Dolores | TV series (1 episode: "The Last Vampyre") |
| Jonah Who Lived in the Whale
| Hannah | Roberto Faenza |
| rowspan="2"| 1994
| Dorothea Brooke | TV series (7 episodes) |
| Jacob
| Leah | Peter Hall, TV film |
| rowspan="2"| 1995
| Go Now | Karen Walker | Michael Winterbottom |
| Performance
| Isabella | David Thacker, TV series (1 episode: "Measure for Measure") |
| rowspan="2"| 1996
| Take Pity | Carolina | short |
| Death of a Salesman
| Miss Forsythe | David Thacker, TV film |
| rowspan="5"| 1997
| The Moth | Sarah Thorman | Roy Battersby, TV film |
| Supply & Demand
| Chomsky | Linda La Plante, TV film |
| Welcome to Sarajevo
| Helen Henderson | Michael Winterbottom |
| For My Baby
| Lilian Glass | Rudolf van den Berg |
| Food of Love
| Madeline |
| rowspan="2"| 1998
| Karen Knowles | Brian Gibson, Golden Globe nomination |
| The Unknown Soldier
| Sophia Carey | David Drury, TV film |
| rowspan="3"| 1999
| Il tempo dell'amore | Martha | Giacomo Campiotti |
| The Lost Lover
| Asya | Roberto Faenza |
| Extremely Dangerous
| Annie | TV series (4 episodes) |
| rowspan="1"| 2000
| The Canterbury Tales | Voice | TV series (1 episode: "The Journey Back") |
| rowspan="3"| 2001
| Cyclops | Esther Powell | Bharat Nalluri, TV film |
| Once Seen
| | short |
| Iris
| Young Janet Stone | Richard Eyre |
| rowspan="2"| 2002
| Giles Foster, TV film |
| Ella and the Mothers
| Madeline | Gavin Millar, TV film |
| rowspan="1"| 2003
| Susan Henchard | David Thacker, TV film |
| rowspan="2"| 2005
| Dr. Eleanor Brown | TV series, Episode: "The Dig" (2 parts) |
| The Constant Gardener
| Gloria Woodrow | Fernando Mereilles |
| rowspan="2"| 2006
| A Good Murder | Kay | Graham Theakston, TV film |
| Midsomer Murders
| Ginny Lamington | TV series (1 episode: "Country Matters") |
| rowspan="4"| 2007
| Fran Pavely | TV series (2 episodes: "War Crimes" – Parts 1 & 2) |
| A Class Apart
| Olivia Troth | Nick Hurran, TV film |
| City of Vice
| Jane Fawkland | Justin Hardy, TV series (1 episode: "Episode 1.5") |
| Primeval
| TV series (25 episodes: 2007–2009 and 2011) |
| rowspan="2"| 2008
| Caught in the Act | Marlene | Steven Speirs |
| Criminal Justice
| Mary Coulter | TV mini-series (4 episodes) |
| rowspan="2"| 2009
| Storm | Nicky | short |
| Law & Order: UK
| Emma Sandbrook | TV series (1 episode: "Vice") |
| rowspan="3"| 2010
| Marie Alderton | TV series (3 episodes) |
| Lewis
| Selina Mortmaigne | TV series (1 episode: "The Dead of Winter") |
| F
| Helen Anderson | Johannes Roberts |
| rowspan="3"| 2011
| Outcasts | Josie Hunter | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Super Eruption
| Kate | Matt Cod, TV film |
| Vera
| Felicity Calvert | TV series (1 episode: "Hidden Depths") |
| rowspan="4"| 2012
| Hunted | Orla Fanta | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Lilyhammer
| Karen Sokolowsky | TV series (1 episode: "Reality Check") |
| Silent Witness
| Miriam Wade | TV series (2 episodes: "Redhill" – Parts 1 & 2) |
| The White Queen
| Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2014
| Joy Dangerfield | TV series (1 episode: "Episode 2.2") |
| 2015
| Marta | Mitch Davis |
| rowspan="3"|2016
| Fallen | Doreen Price | Scott Hicks |
| The Infiltrator
| Evelyn Mazur |
| Mine
| Mike's mother | Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro |
| 2017-2018
| Snatch | Lily Hill | TV series - 2 seasons - 20 episodes |
| 2021–present
| Chief Inspector Christina Brand | TV series |
| rowspan="2"|2024
| Vindicta | Adela Lieben | Dominik Sedlar |
| All Creatures Great and Small
| Miss Grantley | TV series (1 episode: "Episode 5.5" "Pair Bond") |
References
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External links
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{{British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1980-1999}}
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Category:Actresses from Hampshire
Category:Alumni of King's College London
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Category:Best Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners
Category:English film actresses
Category:English people of Welsh descent
Category:English radio actresses
Category:English stage actresses
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