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Imogen Stubbs

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
42

Gender
Female

Birthday
February 20, 1961 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

Imogen Stubbs

Biography

Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer.

Her first leading part was in Privileged (1982), followed by A Summer Story (1988). Her first play, We Happy Few, was produced in 2004. In 2008 she joined Reader's Digest as a contributing editor and writer of fiction.

Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on a vintage river barge on the Thames. She was educated at Cavendish Primary School, then at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, and then Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree.

Her acting career started at Oxford, where she played Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse. After graduating, she enrolled at RADA, and while there had her first professional work, playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. In 1982 she also appeared in her first film, Privileged. Stubbs graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen, and later became an Associate Member of RADA.

In the 1980s Stubbs achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as Desdemona in Othello, which was directed by Trevor Nunn. Other stage work includes Saint Joan at the Strand Theatre and Heartbreak House at the Haymarket, and in 1997 she played in a London production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

In 1988, Stubbs was a notable Ursula Brangwen in a BBC serialization of The Rainbow, and in 1993 and 1994 had the title role in Anna Lee. She played Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

In July 2004, Stubbs's play We Happy Few, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Juliet Stevenson and Marcia Warren, opened at the Gielgud Theatre, London, after a try-out in Malvern. In September 2008 Reader's Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.

Known For

Acting

2025Octomum: The World's Most Hated Woman?as Narrator
2024Harry & Meghan: Going Their Separate Ways?as Narrator
2021Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunionas Self
2018London Unpluggedas
2017Things I Know to Be Trueas Fran Price
2016The Crownas Anne Tennant
2015Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kingsas Narrator
2014Africa's Giant Killersas Narrator (voice)
2014Insomniacsas Alice
2011Death in Paradiseas Valerie O'Toole
2011Babysittingas Mrs. Wollenberg
2011Injusticeas Gemma Lawrence
2007Inside Nirvanaas Narrator
2006Brief Encountersas
2005Dead Coolas Henny
2004Stories of Lost Soulsas Friend in Crowd
2003Collusionas Mary Dolphin
2000Big Kidsas
1997Mothertimeas Suzie
1997Midsomer Murdersas Tamara Deddington
1996Twelfth Nightas Viola
1995Sense and Sensibilityas Lucy Steele
1995Jack & Sarahas Sarah
1995A Pin for the Butterflyas Mother
1994Anna Leeas Anna Lee
1993Anna Lee: Headcaseas Anna Lee
1992After the Danceas Helen Banner
1991Performanceas Helen Banner
1991True Colorsas Diana Stiles
1991The Wandereras Voice
1990Othelloas Desdemona
1989Relatively Speakingas Ginny Whittaker
1989Fellow Travelleras Sarah Aitchison
1989Erik the Vikingas Princess Aud
1988The Rainbowas Ursula Brangwen
1988A Summer Storyas Megan David
1988Deadlineas Lady Romy Burton
1987Nanouas Nanou
1986Casualtyas Chloe Greer
1985The Browning Versionas Mrs. Gilbert
1985Screen Twoas Sarah Atchison
1982Privilegedas Imogen

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