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Juliet Stevenson
Stevenson (right) as Marion in Dustbin Baby
Born
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevens
OccupationActor
Years active1980–present
PartnerHugh Brody

Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen.

Early life

Stevenson was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth (née Marshall), a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer.[1] Stevenson's father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years.[2] When Stevenson was nine, she attended Berkshire's Hurst Lodge boarding school.[3] She was educated at the independent St Catherine's School in Bramley, near Guildford in Surrey, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).[4] 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, Imelda Staunton, 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 best known as a stage actor. 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.[5]

Stevenson is 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), 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.[6] She enjoys a thriving career as a book reader, and has recorded all of Jane Austen's novels as unabridged audiobooks, as well as a number of other classics, such as Lady Windermere’s Fan, Hedda Gabler, Stories from Shakespeare, and To the Lighthouse.

Personal life

Stevenson lives with anthropologist Hugh Brody, her partner since 1993. The couple have two children, both born in Camden, London: Rosalind Hannah Brody (born 1994) and Gabriel Jonathan Brody (born late 2000/early 2001).[7] She is an atheist, but considers herself a spiritual and superstitious person.[8][9] In 1992, she appeared in a political broadcast for the Labour Party.[10][11] She has been a critic of the MMR vaccine, as well as a supporter of the discredited [12] Andrew Wakefield, whose research was based on a sample of twelve children.[13] In 2003, she appeared as the campaigning mother of an autistic child, alongside Hugh Bonneville (as Wakefield) in the 90-minute drama, Hear the Silence, based on this issue, while Stevenson vocally joined the campaign against the MMR vaccine.[14] Wakefield's work has since been discredited;[15] and the articles against the MMR vaccine recanted by the Lancet in a highly unusual step [16].

Stage

  • Spirit in The Tempest with Alan Rickman, Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
  • Iras/Octavia in Antony & Cleopatra, with Jonathan Pryce and Patrick Stewart, Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
  • Whore/Nun in Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
  • Caroline Thompson in The Churchill Play(1978)
  • Aphrodite/Artemis in Hippolytus (1978)
  • Lovers and Kings (1978)
  • Widow/Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew(1978)
  • Yeliena in The White Guard (1978)
  • Miss Chasen in Once in a Lifetime(1978)
  • Lady Percy in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, On Tour, Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)
  • Hippolyta/Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
  • Susan in The Witch of Edmonton (1981)
  • Clara Douglas in Money, with Miles Anderson (1981)
  • Emma and Betsy, Other Worlds, Royal Court Theatre, London, (1983)
  • Isabella, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, (1984)
  • Polya, Breaking the Silence, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre, London, (1984)
  • Cressida, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, (1985)
  • Rosalind, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, (1985)
  • Madame de Tourvel, Les liaisons dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre, (1986)
  • Yerma, Yerma, National Theatre, later Cottesloe Theatre, bothLondon, (1987)
  • Hedda, Hedda Gabler, National Theatre, later Olivier Theatre,London, (1989)
  • Fanny, On the Verge, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, (1989)
  • Anna, Burn This, Hampstead Theatre, later West End Theatre, both London, (1990)
  • Paulina, Death and the Maiden, Theatre Upstairs, London, then Royal Court Theatre (1991). Olivier Award for Best Actress (1992)
  • Galactia, Scenes from an Execution, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles,(1993)
  • The Duchess of Malfi, Greenwich Theatre/ Wyndham's Theatre, London (1995)
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Royal National Theatre, London, (1997)
  • Amanda in Private Lives with Anton Lesser, The National Theatre (1999)
  • The Country, Royal Court Theatre, (2000)
  • We Happy Few by, Gielgud Theatre, London (2004)
  • The Alice Trilogy, Royal Court Theatre, (2005)
  • The Seagull, The National Theatre, (2006)
  • Duet for One, London, stage revival, with Henry Goodman, (2009)

Filmography

Audio recordings, partial list

  • Man and Superman, BBC Audiobooks, 1998 (Broadcast on BBC-4 in 1996). Production featured Juliet Stevenson, Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench. It also included an interview with the director, Sir Peter Hall
  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Penguin Audiobooks, 1997
  • The Plague Tales, BDD, c. 1997
  • When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) - "Sonnet 128" ("How oft, when thou, my music...")
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, Unabridged, Orion audiobook (2006)
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 7 CDs (2006)
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 7 CDs (2007)
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 14 CDs (2007)
  • Emma by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 13 CDs (2007)
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Naxos audiobook, Unabridged (2007)
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë,
  • I, Coriander, by Sally Gardner,
  • The King's General, by Daphne du Maurier,
  • An Unequal Marriage, by Emma Tennant,
  • From Shakespeare with Love, by William Shakespeare, David Tennant (Narrator), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Anton Lesser (Narrator), Alex Jennings (Narrator)
  • Daphne Du Maurier Collection: Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek & My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Daniel Massey (Narrator), Michael Maloney (Narrator)
  • A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
  • The London Tapes, by Juliet Stevenson
  • Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali, abridged (2006)

References

  1. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/68/Juliet-Stevenson.html
  2. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/my-secret-life-juliet-stevenson-1231440.html My Secret Life: Juliet Stevenson
  3. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3647775/Why-Juliet-dreads-the-boards.html Why Juliet Dreads the Boards
  4. ^ According to Who's Who on Television (1982 edition)
  5. ^ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98526/Olivier-Winners-1992/
  6. ^ Flood, Alison (22 October 2009). "British readers vote Harlan Coben their favourite crime writer". London: guardian.co.uk (Guardian News & Media). Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  7. ^ Births England and Wales Births 1984-2006
  8. ^ Dodd, Celia (14 March 2008). "Actress Juliet Stevenson reveals that her toughest role is being an older mother". The Times. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  9. ^ http://www.secularism.org.uk/comingoutasatheistbillyconnollyj.html
  10. ^ Transcript of Labour Party video
  11. ^ Labour Party video
  12. ^ "GMC: MMR doctor 'abused position of trust'", Channel 4 News, 28 January 2010
  13. ^ Triggle, Nick (28 January 2010). "MMR doctor 'broke research rules'". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  14. ^ Revill, Jo (14 December 2003). "Channel defends MMR jab drama". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  15. ^ "GMC: MMR doctor 'abused position of trust'", Channel 4 News, 28 January 2010
  16. ^ http://www.statesman.com/news/world/journal-retracts-study-that-linked-autism-to-vaccine-210033.html

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