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Encyclopedia > Jodhi May

Jodhi May
Born May 1975 (age 32–33)
London, England
Years active 1988–present

Jodhi May (born May 1975) is an English actress. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

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Early life and career

Born in Camden Town, London, May first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's A World Apart. The role earned her a best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi. She remains the youngest recipient of the award. For other uses of Camden, see Camden. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A World Apart is an Anti-Apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges, produced in 1988. ... The Best Actress Award (French: Prix dinterprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. ... The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ... Barbara Hershey is an American actress, known for her many film roles. ...


Other than a brief lull while studying English at Wadham College, Oxford, she has had near constant work in the subsequent two decades, and can regularly be seen on film, television and the British stage. She is often cast as an innocent abused, or an extremely intelligent woman having a breakdown. English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology... College name Wadham College Named after Nicholas Wadham Established 1610 Sister College Christs College Warden Sir Neil Chalmers JCR President Ben Jasper Undergraduates 460 MCR President David Patrikarakos Graduates 180 Homepage Boatclub Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located at the southern...


Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans; as an incestuous lesbian in Sister My Sister; as Florence Banner in the BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Queen Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and as Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure. May has also directed a short film, and has a script in development. Michael Mann is the name of: Michael Mann (film director) (born 1943) Michael Mann (scientist), climate researcher. ... The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 historical epic film set in 1757 during the French and Indian War. ... Incest is defined as sexual relations between closely related persons (often within the immediate family) such that it is either illegal or socially taboo. ... This article is about same-sex desire and sexuality among women. ... Sister My Sister is a 1995 film starring British actresses Joely Richardson, Jodhi May and Julie Walters. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Tipping the Velvet is a novel written by Sarah Waters and published by Virago. ... Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (1501/1507–19 May 1536) was a Queen Consort of England, the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Henrys marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key player in the political and religious... For the 2007 film based on the novel, see The Other Boleyn Girl (film) The Other Boleyn Girl is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory, based on the life of 16th-century aristocrat Mary Boleyn. ... Sabina Spielrein was born 1885 into a family of a Jewish merchant in Rostov na Donu, and died there in 1941 (1942?), murdered by Nazi troops. ...


Personal life

May is half-French and half-German. She is extremely reserved about her family and private life. A stereotypical German The Germans (German: die Deutschen), or the German people, are a nation in the meaning an ethnos (in German: Volk), defined more by a sense of sharing a common German culture and having a German mother tongue, than by citizenship or by being subjects to any particular...


Selected filmography

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