Editing Imogen Stubbs

{{short description|British actress (b. 1961)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Imogen Stubbs
| image       = 
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|education= [[St Paul's Girls' School]]<br>[[Westminster School]]<br>[[Exeter College, Oxford]]<br>[[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1961|2|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Rothbury]], [[Northumberland]], England
| occupation   = Actress
| children     = 2
| years_active = 1982–present
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Trevor Nunn]]|1994|2011|end=separated}}
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'''Imogen Stubbs''' (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer.

Her first leading part was in ''[[Privileged (1982 film)|Privileged]]'' (1982), followed by ''[[A Summer Story]]'' (1988).

Her first play, ''[[We Happy Few (play)|We Happy Few]]'', was produced in 2004. In 2008 she joined ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' as a contributing editor and writer of fiction.

==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.

==Career==
In the 1980s Stubbs achieved success on stage with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]], including playing Desdemona in ''[[Othello]]'', directed by [[Trevor Nunn]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/dvd-othello-rev.htm|title=Film/Video review: Othello|website=British Theatre Guide|orig-date=2006|date=3 August 2020|first=Philip|last=Fisher|accessdate=11 December 2024}}</ref> Other stage work includes ''[[Saint Joan (play)|Saint Joan]]'' at the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]] and ''[[Heartbreak House]]'' at the [[Haymarket Theatre|Haymarket]], and in 1997 she played in a London production of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.

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

In July 2004, Stubbs's play ''[[We Happy Few (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, Worcestershire|Malvern]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Paul|date=6 July 2004|title=We Happy Few|journal=[[The Independent]]|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/we-happy-few-gielgud-theatre-london-755894.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090603231438/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/we-happy-few-gielgud-theatre-london-755894.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 June 2009|access-date=15 September 2008}}</ref> In September 2008 ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.<ref>{{cite news|title=Digest revamped|last=Carter|first=Meg|date=15 September 2008|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/sep/15/pressandpublishing.facebook|access-date=15 September 2008}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1994, Stubbs married [[Trevor Nunn]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Montague-Smith|first=Patrick|title=[[Debrett's|Debrett's Correct Form]]|year=1970|isbn=0-7472-0658-9|pages=76–77|publisher=Headline }}</ref> The couple have two children:<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Who's Who]]|year=2011|publisher=[[A & C Black]]|location=Oxford, England|chapter=Nunn, Sir Trevor (Robert)}}</ref> a son and a daughter, [[Ellie Nunn]], who is also an actress.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/relative-values-the-actress-imogen-stubbs-and-her-daughter-ellie-nunn-nq2h7bgpk66|title=Relative Values: the actress Imogen Stubbs, and her daughter, Ellie Nunn|first=Interviews by Jeremy|last=Taylor|date=10 January 2018|access-date=10 January 2018|work=[[The Times]]|location=London}}</ref> In April 2011, Stubbs announced that she and her husband were separating.<ref name=stubbs2011>{{cite web|title=Imogen Stubbs and Sir Trevor Nunn separate after 21 years|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8471249/Imogen-Stubbs-and-Sir-Trevor-Nunn-separate-after-21-years.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=25 April 2011|access-date=2011-04-25}}</ref> Her partner is [[Jonathan Guy Lewis]].<ref name=weale2018/><ref name=stubbs2023>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]]|date=25 February 2023|first1=Chris|last1=Harvey|first2=Imogen|last2=Stubbs|title='It's become less and less acceptable to age' – The Saturday Interview: The actress tells Chris Harvey about her bohemian childhood on a boat, marriage to her former husband director Trevor Nunn and her distaste for plastic surgery.|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/imogen-stubbs-become-less-less-acceptable-age/}}<!--Gale Archive version has Byline: Imogen Stubbs--></ref>

== Filmography ==

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1982
|''[[Privileged (1982 film)|Privileged]]''
|Imogen
|
|-
|1986
|''[[Nanou (film)|Nanou]]''
|Nanou
|
|-
|1988
|''{{sortname|A|Summer Story}}''
|Megan David
|
|-
|1989
|''[[Erik the Viking]]''
|Princess Aud
|
|-
|1991
|''[[True Colors (film)|True Colors]]''
|Diana Stiles
|
|-
|1991
|''{{sortname|The|Wanderer|nolink=1}}''
|Narrator
|Voice
|-
|1994
|''{{sortname|A|Pin for the Butterfly}}''
|Mother
|
|-
|1995
|''[[Jack and Sarah]]''
|Sarah
|
|-
|1995
|''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense & Sensibility]]''
|Lucy Steele
|
|-
|1996
|''[[Twelfth Night (1996 film)|Twelfth Night]]''
|Viola
|
|-
|2003
|''Collusion''
|Mary Dolphin
|
|-
|2004
|''[[Dead Cool]]''
|Henny
|
|-
|2011
|''Babysitting''
|Mrs. Wollenberg
|Short
|-
|2014
|''Insomniacs''
|Alice
|Short
|-
|2016
|''Stake Out''
|Sally
|Short
|-
|2017
|''Kew Gardens''
|Isabella
|Short, post-production
|-
|2018
|''[[London Unplugged]]''
| Isabella
| [[Anthology film]]
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1985
|''{{sortname|The|Browning Version|nolink=1}}''
|Mrs. Gilbert
|TV film
|-
|1988
|''{{sortname|The|Rainbow|The Rainbow (BBC miniseries)}}''
|Ursula Brangwen
|TV miniseries
|-
|1988
|''[[Deadline (1988 film)|Deadline]]''
|Lady Romy Burton
|TV film
|-
|1990
|''Fellow Traveller''
|Sarah Atchison
|In the ''[[Screen Two]]'' series
|-
|1990
|''Relatively Speaking''
|Ginny Whittaker
|TV film
|-
|1990
|''Pasternak''
|Lara / Olga (voice)
|TV film
|-
|1990
|''[[Theatre Night]]''
|Desdemona
|"[[Othello]]"
|-
|1992
|''Sandra, c'est la vie''
|Marie
|TV film
|-
|1992
|''[[Performance (British TV series)|Performance]]''
|Helen Banner
|"After the Dance"
|-
|1993
|''Anna Lee: Headcase''
|Anna Lee
|TV film
|-
|1994
|''[[Anna Lee (TV series)|Anna Lee]]''
|Anna Lee
|Main role
|-
|1996
|''1914–1918''
|(voice)
|"Total War"
|-
|1997
|''[[Screen Two]]''
|Suzie
|"Mothertime"
|-
|2000
|''Blind Ambition''
|Annie Thomas
|TV film
|-
|2000
|''[[Big Kids]]''
|Sarah Spiller
|Main role
|-
|2001
|''Lee Evans: So What Now?''
|Chloe
|"Sofa So Good"
|-
|2002
|''Township Opera''
|Narrator
|TV film
|-
|2005
|''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''
|Chloe Greer
|"Running out of Kisses"
|-
|2006
|''[[Agatha Christie's Marple]]''
|Mona Symmington
|"The Moving Finger"
|-
|2006
|''[[Brief Encounters (TV series)|Brief Encounters]]''
|Sonia
|"Semi-Detached"
|-
|2009
|''[[New Tricks]]''
|Lotte Davenport
|"Shadow Show"
|-
|2010
|''{{sortname|The|Adventures of Daniel|nolink=1}}''
|Mrs. Wallace
|TV film
|-
|2011
|''[[Injustice (British TV series)|Injustice]]''
|Gemma Lawrence
|"1.4", "1.5"
|-
|2012
|''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]''
|Miranda Payne
|"High-Flyer"
|-
|2012
|''[[Parents (TV series)|Parents]]''
|Isabelle Hopkins
|"1.3"
|-
|2012
|''[[Switch (UK TV series)|Switch]]''
|Esme
|"1.6"
|-
|2017
|''[[Holby City]]''
|Evelyn Chapman
|"It Has to be Now"
|-
|2018
|''[[Death in Paradise (TV series)|Death in Paradise]]''
|Valerie O'Toole
|"7.3"
|-
|2021
|''[[Midsomer Murders]]''
|Tamara Deddington
|''[[List of Midsomer Murders episodes|"21.3 – The Sting of Death"]]''
|-
|2023
|''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''
|[[Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner]]
|[[The Crown (season 6)|Season 6]], episode 8: "Ritz"
|}

==Theatre==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Company
|-
| 1985 || ''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]'' || Sally Bowles || [[Wolsey Theatre]], Ipswich
|-
| 1985 || ''[[The Boy Friend (musical)|The Boyfriend]]'' || Polly Browne || [[Wolsey Theatre]], Ipswich
|-  
| 1986 || ''[[The Rover (play)|The Rover]]'' || Helena ||[[Swan Theatre (Stratford)|Swan Theatre]], Stratford
|-
| 1986 || ''[[Two Noble Kinsmen]]'' || Gaoler's daughter || [[The Other Place (theatre)|The Other Place]], Stratford
|-
| 1987 || ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' || Queen Isabel || Swan Theatre, Stratford
|-
| 1989 || ''[[Othello]]'' || Desdemona ||The Other Place, Stratford<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=11 July 2016|first=Andrew|last=Dickson|title=Willard White on playing Othello: 'I broke down – I considered walking away'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jul/11/willard-white-othello-rsc-trevor-nunn-shakespeare}}</ref> 
|-
| 1992 || ''[[Heartbreak House]]'' || Ellie || [[Haymarket Theatre|Theatre Royal, Haymarket]]
|-
| 1994 || ''[[Saint Joan (play)|Saint Joan]]'' || Joan ||[[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]]
|-
| 1994 || ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' || Yelena ||[[Chichester Festival Theatre|Chichester Festival]]
|-
| 1996 || ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' || Stella ||Theatre Royal, Haymarket
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Closer (play)|Closer]]'' || Anna ||[[Lyric Theatre, London]]
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Betrayal (play)|Betrayal]]'' || Emma || [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|-
| 2001 || ''[[The Relapse]]'' || Amanda ||National Theatre
|-
| 2002 || ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' || Masha ||[[Theatre Royal, Bath]] (and tour)
|-
| 2003 || ''Mum's the Word'' || Linda ||[[Albery Theatre]]
|-
| 2004 || ''[[Hamlet]]'' || Gertrude || [[The Old Vic]]
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Duchess of Malfi]]'' || Duchess ||[[West Yorkshire Playhouse]], [[Leeds]]
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Scenes from a Marriage]]'' || Marianne ||[[Belgrade Theatre]], [[Coventry]]
|-
| 2009 || ''Alphabetical Order'' || Lucy || [[Hampstead Theatre]]
|-
| 2010 || ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' || Amanda ||[[Shared Experience]]
|-
| 2011 || ''[[Private Lives]]'' || Amanda ||[[Royal Exchange, Manchester|Manchester Royal Exchange]]
|-
| 2011 || ''[[Little Eyolf]]'' || Rita ||[[Jermyn Street Theatre]], London
|-
| 2011 || ''Salt, Root and Roe'' || Menna ||[[Trafalgar Studios]], London<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Who's Who]]|year=2011|publisher=[[A & C Black]]|location=Oxford, England|chapter=Stubbs, Imogen Mary, (Lady Nunn)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Trowbridge|first=Simon|title=Stratfordians: a biographical dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company|year=2008|publisher=Editions Albert Creed|location=Oxford, England|isbn=978-0-9559830-1-6|page=475|chapter=Imogen Stubbs}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/mar/08/private-lives-review|title=Private Lives – review|last=Gardner|first=Lynn|date=8 March 2011|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|access-date=10 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/little-eyolf-jermyn-street-theatre-london-2281122.html|title=Little Eyolf, Jermyn Street Theatre, London|last=Coveney|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Coveney|date=9 May 2011|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=28 May 2011}}</ref>
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' || Lady || [[Royal Exchange Theatre]], Manchester<ref name="thestage">{{cite web|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/listings/production.php/57241/orpheus-descending|access-date= 27 October 2012|title=The Stage / Listings / Orpheus Descending}}</ref><ref name="rexrelease">{{cite web|access-date=27 October 2012|title=Autumn – the Royal Exchange Theatre|url=http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/press_images/Season.doc|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927015342/http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/press_images/Season.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 2013 || ''Third Finger, Left Hand'' || Niamh || [[Trafalgar Studios]], London
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Strangers on a Train (play)|Strangers on a Train]]'' || Elsie || [[Gielgud Theatre]], London<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/182363-Strangers-on-a-Train-Based-on-Novel-to-Star-Laurence-Fox-and-Jack-Huston-at-Londons-Gielgud-Theatre | title=Strangers on a Train, Based on Novel, to Star Laurence Fox and Jack Huston at London's Gielgud Theatre | publisher=[[Playbill]] | work=playbill.com | date=20 September 2013 | access-date=16 January 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117035030/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/182363-Strangers-on-a-Train-Based-on-Novel-to-Star-Laurence-Fox-and-Jack-Huston-at-Londons-Gielgud-Theatre | archive-date=17 January 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| 2014 || ''Little Revolution'' || Sarah / various || [[Almeida Theatre]], London<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/littlerevolution/cast | title=Cast, Little Revolution, Almeida Theatre | access-date=20 September 2014 | archive-date=6 September 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906184218/http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/littlerevolution/cast | url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| 2014 || ''The Hypochondriac'' || Beline || Touring,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3009/The-Hypochondriac/890|title=Theatre Royal Bath – What's On|website=Theatre Royal Bath|access-date=10 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023220653/http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3009/The-Hypochondriac/890|archive-date=23 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Communicating Doors]]'' ||Ruella || [[Menier Chocolate Factory|Menier Theatre]], London<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lawrence|first1=Ben|title=Communicating Doors, Menier Chocolate Factory|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/11597267/Communicating-Doors-Menier-Chocolate-Factory-review-frenetically-funny.html|access-date=23 May 2015|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London}}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || ''[[Things I Know to be True]]'' || Fran Price || Frantic Assembly
|-
| 2018 || ''The Be All and End All''|| Charlotte||[[York Theatre Royal]]<ref name=weale2018/>
|-
| 2022 || ''[[Clybourne Park]]'' || Bev/Kathy  || [[Park Theatre (London)|Park Theatre]] 
|-
| 2023 || ''[[The Children (play)|The Children]]'' || Rose || Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds<ref name=stubbs2023/>
|-
|2023||''Three Acts of Love''||Dr Fiona McGill||Live Theatre, Newcastle<ref name=fisher2023>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=8 December 2023|first=Mark|last=Fisher|title=Three Acts of Love review – pain and pleasure in a trio straight from the heart|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/dec/08/three-acts-of-love-review-live-theatre-newcastle-imogen-stubbs}}</ref>
|}

==Other projects and contributions==
*''[[When Love Speaks]]'' (2002, [[EMI Classics]]) – [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] "[[Sonnet 21]]" ("So it is not with me as with that Muse")

==References==
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