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Gender: Female

Place of birth: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 21

TV Involvements: 6


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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.

Most Famous Work

Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Tamara Deddington
The Crown
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8

The Crown

(2016) Anne Tennant
Casualty
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6

Casualty

(1986) Chloe Greer
Sense and Sensibility
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7

Sense and Sensibility

(1995) Lucy Steele
Anna Lee
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7

Anna Lee

(1994) Anna Lee
Injustice
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7

Injustice

(2011) Gemma Lawrence
True Colors
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6

True Colors

(1991) Diana Stiles
A Summer Story
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6

A Summer Story

(1988) Megan David

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Narrator
2018 N/A
2017 Fran Price
2016 Anne Tennant
2015 Narrator
2014 Narrator (voice)
2013 Alice
2011 Valerie O'Toole
Mrs. Wollenberg
Gemma Lawrence
2006 N/A
2005 Henny
2004 Friend in Crowd
2003 Mary Dolphin
2000 N/A
1997 Suzie
Tamara Deddington
1996 Viola
1995 Lucy Steele
Sarah
Mother
1994 Anna Lee
1993 Anna Lee
1992 Helen Banner
1991 Diana Stiles
Voice
1990 Desdemona
1989 Ginny Whittaker
Sarah Aitchison
Princess Aud
1988 Ursula Brangwen
Megan David
Lady Romy Burton
1987 Nanou
1986 Chloe Greer
1985 Mrs. Gilbert
1982 Imogen
Year Character Movie/Tv

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