Wikipedia / Imogen Stubbs
Wikipedia / Imogen Stubbs
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.
Early life
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, Chiswick, then at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School. She took her bachelor's degree at Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree.
While at Oxford, she played Irina in a student production of 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 RADA, and while there had her first professional work, playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. In 1982 she 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.
Career
In the 1980s Stubbs achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including playing Desdemona in Othello, 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 played 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.
Personal life
In 1994, Stubbs married Trevor Nunn. The couple have two children: a son and a daughter, Ellie Nunn, who is also an actress. In April 2011, Stubbs announced that she and her husband were separating. Her partner is Jonathan Guy Lewis.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1982 | Imogen | ||
1986 | Nanou | ||
1988 | Megan David | ||
1989 | Princess Aud | ||
1991 | Diana Stiles | ||
1991 | Narrator | Voice | |
1994 | Mother | ||
1995 | Sarah | ||
1995 | Lucy Steele | ||
1996 | Viola | ||
2003 | Collusion | Mary Dolphin | |
2004 | Henny | ||
2011 | Babysitting | Mrs. Wollenberg | Short |
2014 | Insomniacs | Alice | Short |
2016 | Stake Out | Sally | Short |
2017 | Kew Gardens | Isabella | Short, post-production |
2018 | Isabella |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1985 | Mrs. Gilbert | TV film | |
1988 | Ursula Brangwen | TV miniseries | |
1988 | 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 | Desdemona | "Othello" | |
1992 | Sandra, c'est la vie | Marie | TV film |
1992 | Helen Banner | "After the Dance" | |
1993 | Anna Lee: Headcase | Anna Lee | TV film |
1994 | Anna Lee | Main role | |
1996 | 1914–1918 | (voice) | "Total War" |
1997 | Suzie | "Mothertime" | |
2000 | Blind Ambition | Annie Thomas | TV film |
2000 | Sarah Spiller | Main role | |
2001 | Lee Evans: So What Now? | Chloe | "Sofa So Good" |
2002 | Township Opera | Narrator | TV film |
2005 | Chloe Greer | "Running out of Kisses" | |
2006 | Mona Symmington | "The Moving Finger" | |
2006 | Sonia | "Semi-Detached" | |
2009 | Lotte Davenport | "Shadow Show" | |
2010 | Mrs. Wallace | TV film | |
2011 | Gemma Lawrence | "1.4", "1.5" | |
2012 | Miranda Payne | "High-Flyer" | |
2012 | Isabelle Hopkins | "1.3" | |
2012 | Esme | "1.6" | |
2017 | Evelyn Chapman | "It Has to be Now" | |
2018 | Valerie O'Toole | "7.3" | |
2021 | Tamara Deddington | ||
2023 | Season 6, episode 8: "Ritz" |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Company |
1985 | Sally Bowles | Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich | |
1985 | Polly Browne | Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich | |
1986 | Helena | Swan Theatre, Stratford | |
1986 | Gaoler's daughter | The Other Place, Stratford | |
1987 | Queen Isabel | Swan Theatre, Stratford | |
1989 | Desdemona | The Other Place, Stratford | |
1992 | Ellie | ||
1994 | Joan | ||
1994 | Yelena | ||
1996 | Stella | Theatre Royal, Haymarket | |
1998 | Anna | ||
1998 | Emma | ||
2001 | Amanda | National Theatre | |
2002 | Masha | Theatre Royal, Bath (and tour) | |
2003 | Mum's the Word | Linda | |
2004 | Gertrude | ||
2006 | Duchess | ||
2008 | Marianne | ||
2009 | Alphabetical Order | Lucy | |
2010 | Amanda | ||
2011 | Amanda | ||
2011 | Rita | Jermyn Street Theatre, London | |
2011 | Salt, Root and Roe | Menna | Trafalgar Studios, London |
2012 | Lady | Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester | |
2013 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Niamh | Trafalgar Studios, London |
2013 | Elsie | Gielgud Theatre, London | |
2014 | Little Revolution | Sarah / various | Almeida Theatre, London |
2014 | The Hypochondriac | Beline | Touring, |
2015 | Ruella | Menier Theatre, London | |
2016 | Fran Price | Frantic Assembly | |
2018 | The Be All and End All | Charlotte | |
2018 | titular | ||
2022 | Bev/Kathy | Park Theatre | |
2023 | Rose | Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds | |
2023 | Three Acts of Love | Dr Fiona McGill | Live Theatre, Newcastle |
2025 | Hedda | Julia | Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio |
2026 | A thing of beauty |
Other projects and contributions
When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) – Shakespeare's "Sonnet 21" ("So it is not with me as with that Muse")
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