Editing Imogen Stubbs (section)

==Early life==
Imogen Stubbs was born in [[Rothbury]],<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Edmonds
  | first = Mark
  | title = The world's fastest interview
  | newspaper = [[The Sunday Times|The Sunday Times Magazine]]
  | pages = 7
  | date = 31 March 2013
  }}</ref> [[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]],<ref name=weale2018>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=20 April 2018|first=Sally|last=Weale|title=Imogen Stubbs laments 'awful treadmill' of UK education system|url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/apr/20/imogen-stubbs-uk-education-system-treadmill-be-all-and-end-all}}</ref> gaining a First Class degree.<ref name=stubbs2023/>

Her acting career started at Oxford, where she played Irina in a student production of ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' at the [[Oxford Playhouse]]. She also appeared in a student review called ''Dinosaur Can-can'' at the same theatre. After graduating, she enrolled at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]], and while there had her first professional work, playing [[Sally Bowles]] in ''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]'' at the [[New Wolsey Theatre|Wolsey Theatre]], [[Ipswich]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Imogen Stubbs, actor|last=Barnett|first=Laura|date=9 March 2010|work=[[The Guardian]]|page=G2-23|location=London}}</ref> In 1982
she also appeared in her first film, ''[[Privileged (1982 film)|Privileged]]''.

Stubbs graduated from RADA in the same class as [[Jane Horrocks]]<ref name=pelley2023>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 November 2023|first=Rich|last=Pelley|title=Jane Horrocks: 'I'd love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/30/jane-horrocks-tarantino-mike-leigh-new-order}}</ref> and [[Iain Glen]], and later became an Associate Member of RADA.