Juliet Stevenson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actress of stage and screen. She won an Olivier Award in 1992 and was made a CBE in the 1999 Queens Birthday Honours.Stevenson joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, going on to play Isabella in Measure for Measure (1984), Cressida in Troilus and Cressida (1985) and Madame de Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1986). She also starred in the title role in the National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler (1989). For her role as Paulina in Death and the Maiden (1991-1992) at the Royal Court Theatre and in the West End, she won the 1992 Olivier Award for Best Actress. She received three previous Olivier nominations in the 1980s. For her role as Stephanie in the 2009 revival of Duet for One, she received her fifth Olivier nomination.She has been nominated three times for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for A Doll's House (1992), The Politician's Wife (1995) and Accused (2010). In 1990, she starred in the film Truly Madly Deeply directed by Anthony Minghella, receiving a Best Actress BAFTA nomination. Her other films include, Emma (1996), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Being Julia (2004) and Infamous (2006).
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, St Catherine's School, Bramley
Nationality
British
Children
Gabriel Jonathan Brody, Rosalind Hannah Brody
Parents
Virginia Ruth Stevenson, Michael Guy Stevenson
Siblings
Tim Stevens, Gerda Stevens
Partner
Hugh Brody, Hugh Brody
Awards
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, CableACE Award, AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama, Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress
Nominations
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival, Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress
Movies
Truly, Madly, Deeply, The Letters, Bend It Like Beckham, The Secret of Moonacre, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Pierrepoint, Desert Flower, Drowning by Numbers, Nicholas Nickleby, Emma, Food of Love, Infamous, Diana, A Previous Engagement, Breaking and Entering...
TV Shows
The Hour, Accused, The Legends of Treasure Island, The Mallens, Masterpiece, Place of Execution
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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On playing the fussy suburban mother in Bend It Like Beckham (2002): My only passport to cool. When I went to look at schools for my daughter, I'd walk into a classroom and it was, 'Ohmigod.' Then I realise what impact the film had. Great film. I loved it.
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On going to Los Angeles to read for True Lies (1994): I spent a sweaty day trying to get ready for it. I got myself dolled up, got a little rented car. I was driving round some freeway, trying to find this studio lot, and I suddenly thought, 'What am I doing? I don't like this material. I don't like these kinds of films, I actively disapprove of them. It was racist. It was violent. I didn't like anything it stood for, I'm not gonna get it anyway.' So I turned the car round, went home, rang up and said, 'I'm not going.' People find it pretentious. I don't think it's pretentious. I don't want to do stuff I don't value.
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On Truly Madly Deeply (1990) written especially for her by Anthony Minghella: I don't really like watching that glamorised version of grief - a single tear rolls down a perfect cheek. My experience of loss is that you feel trashed. Loss is not a glamorous thing.
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On growing up as the daughter of an army officer: When I'd arrive in a new country, I didn't have any friends for a while. I was quite self-sufficient. I don't know what the connection is with acting, but I can set up home very fast.
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On raising two children: I do compartmentalise, because I have to. I've spent the morning organising our days - food arrangements, childcare and stuff - and I'm normally doing that all the way into the theatre.
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On playing Stephanie, an ex-violinist with Multiple Sclerosis in "Duet for One" in London: I go out on stage and it feels as if there isn't a single part of me that isn't used up doing what I do. I mean, head, heart, soul, fingers, sexuality, everything is employed. It isn't every day you can do plays like this.
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I'm quite scatty.
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It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.
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I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. But I know what it's like to be pretty obsessed. I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'
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On reading Auden aloud at school: I felt, 'I want to be the person through whom these words pass out to other people.'
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On playing Cleopatra at RADA: I was this skinny pale inexperienced more-or-less schoolgirl, and it must have been quite tough for this director to get a Cleopatra out of me. Which is what he said in no uncertain terms in front of all my classmates. He just tore me to shreds. And I remember thinking, 'I've got two or three options. I probably can just run out the building, go off the university and be a lawyer. Or burst into tears and get drunk and take a month to recover.' And then suddenly I filled with rage that anybody would humiliate me like that. The only way of expressing that rage was through the language. I could feel this power coming up from somewhere I didn't know existed and coming out through everything, fingertips and brain and mouth and suddenly it was working and I remember thinking, 'Great, this is it, it's like flying!' And at the end he said, 'Thank you very much, that's more like it.'
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I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.
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Fact
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She was awarded the 1993 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Scenes from an Execution," at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Lead Performance for "Scenes from an Execution," at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Playing "Stephanie Abrahams" in Tom Kempinski's "Duet for One" at the Vaudeville Theatre, The Strand (after transferring from the Almeida Theatre in Islington), opposite Henry Goodman. [May 2009]
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She and her boyfriend, Hugh Brody, have two children: a daughter Rosalind Hannah Brody (b. July 1994) and a son Gabriel Jonathan Brody (b. December 2000).
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Graduated from RADA.
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Became a Member of the RADA Council.
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She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1992 (1991 season) for Best Actress for her performance in "Death and the Maiden".
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She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honors List for her services to drama.
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors in 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.