Imogen Stubbs

Born: 1961-02-20

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.


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Sense and Sensibility

as Lucy Steele
Released: 1995-12-13

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem...

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Erik the Viking

as Princess Aud
Released: 1989-09-01

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to...

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Twelfth Night

as Viola
Released: 1996-10-25

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near...

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True Colors

as Diana Stiles
Released: 1991-03-15

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and...

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A Summer Story

as Megan David
Released: 1988-08-11

A young lawyer from London, Mr. Ashton, and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor. When he...

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Jack & Sarah

as Sarah
Released: 1995-06-02

Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He...

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Stories of Lost Souls

as Friend in Crowd
Released: 2004-11-12

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to...

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Fellow Traveller

as Sarah Aitchison
Released: 1989-09-29

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film...

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Othello

as Desdemona
Released: 1990-06-23

Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically...

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Dead Cool

as Henny
Released: 2005-09-01

A story about modern family relationships, as seen through the eyes of 15 year-old David. Six...

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Harry & Meghan: Going Their Separate Ways?

as Narrator
Released: 2024-11-03

They used to be the ultimate power couple - but what exactly has gone wrong?

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Nanou

as Nanou
Released: 1987-02-27

A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking,...

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The Browning Version

as Mrs. Gilbert
Released: 1985-12-31

Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.

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Mothertime

as Suzie
Released: 1997-12-28

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an...

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London Unplugged

as uncredited
Released: 2018-10-05

A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives...

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Africa's Giant Killers

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2014-04-11

Africa's largest herd of elephants and a fearless pride of young lions come face to face in an...

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Relatively Speaking

as Ginny Whittaker
Released: 1989-12-24

It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also...

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Insomniacs

as Alice
Released: 2013-01-01

In this atmospheric, emotionally charged drama, two Londoners lose sleep but find each other.

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Deadline

as Lady Romy Burton
Released: 1988-01-01

In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a...

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Things I Know to be True

as Fran Price
Released: 2017-02-22

As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know To Be True tells the story of a...

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After the Dance

as Helen Banner
Released: 1992-12-05

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a...

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The Wanderer

as Voice
Released: 1991-01-01

Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, telling of a warrior's loss of a beloved Lord...

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Privileged

as Imogen
Released: 1982-09-01

A story about a group of Oxford undergraduate acting students and their troubled lives while...

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Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings

as Narrator
Released: 2015-08-19

In southern Africa, a pride of lions has rewritten the rules - by learning to take down...

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Midsomer Murders

as Tamara Deddington
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Death in Paradise

as Valerie O'Toole
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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The Crown

as Anne Tennant
First aired: 2016-11-04

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...

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Casualty

as Chloe Greer
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Injustice

as Gemma Lawrence
First aired: 2011-06-06

On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister...

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Anna Lee

as Anna Lee
First aired: 1994-02-27

Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London...

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The Rainbow

as Ursula Brangwen
First aired: 1988-12-04

Ursula Brangwen is the beautiful, naive daughter of a wealthy country squire, one of five...

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