Imogen Stubbs

Known for ActingBorn 1961-02-20 (age 65)Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Wanderer

Relatively Speaking

Africa's Giant Killers

Mothertime

The Crown

Things I Know to Be True

Death in Paradise

Midsomer Murders

Sense and Sensibility

Privileged

Othello

Injustice

Brief Encounters

Screen Two

Twelfth Night

Anna Lee

Jack & Sarah

Babysitting

Collusion

Big Kids

Performance

True Colors

Casualty

The Browning Version

A Summer Story

Anna Lee: Headcase

Deadline

Erik the Viking

Stories of Lost Souls

A Pin for the Butterfly

Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings

Dead Cool

London Unplugged

Fellow Traveller

Nanou

The Rainbow

Insomniacs

Octomum: The World's Most Hated Woman?

Harry & Meghan: Going Their Separate Ways?

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

Inside Nirvana

After the Dance