Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs
Born	20 February 1961 Rothbury, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Education	St Paul's Girls' School Westminster School Exeter College, Oxford
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Trevor Nunn (m. 1994–2011)
Children	1 son, 1 daughter

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and playwright.

Early life

Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury,^[1] 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 an elderly river barge on the Thames. She was educated at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the "token girls" in the sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree. Her acting career started with Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse and her first professional success, while still at RADA, was as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.^[2]

She graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen, and has since become an Associate Member of RADA. She achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as Desdemona in Othello, which was directed by Trevor Nunn. Additional stage work includes Saint Joan at the Strand Theatre and Heartbreak House at the Haymarket and in Jessica Lange's London production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1997.

Personal life

In 1994 she married Sir Trevor Nunn, acquiring the courtesy title of Lady Nunn.^[3] They have two children:^[4] a son and a daughter. It was announced in April 2011 that she and Nunn were to separate.^[5] She is a second cousin of Alexander Armstrong.

Filmography

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	The Browning Version	Mrs Gilbert
1986	Nanou	Nanou
1988	The Rainbow	Ursula Brangwen	Three-episode BBC1 production by Stuart Burge, aired in December.
1988	Deadline	Lady Romy Burton	TV film
1989	Fellow Traveller	Sarah Atchinson
1990	Relatively Speaking	Ginny Whittaker
1990	Pasternak	Lara and Olga	Voice roles
1990	Othello	Desdemona	RSC/Primetime/BBC Production by Greg Smith, directed by Trevor Nunn
1992	After the Dance	Helen	BBC2 television production by Stuart Burge
1993	Sandra, C'est la Vie	Marie
1993–1994	Anna Lee	Anna Lee
1997	Mothertime	Suzie
2000	Blind Ambition	Annie Thomas
2000	Big Kids	Sarah Spiller
2001	So What Now?	Chloe
2002	Township Opera	Narrator
2005	Casualty	Chloe Greer	Episode: "Running out of Kisses"
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger	Mona Symmington
2006	Brief Encounters	Sonia	Episode: "Semi-Detached"
2009	New Tricks	Lottie Davenport	Episode: "Shadow Show"
2011	Injustice	Gemma Lawrence	2 Episodes
2012	Doctors	Miranda Payne	Episode: "High-Flyer"
2012	Parents	Isabelle Hopkins	Guest appearance in episode 3 of Sky1 comedy
2012	Switch	Esme	Episode: "Summer Solstice Showdown"
Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	Privileged	Imogen
1986	Nanou	Nanou
1988	A Summer Story	Megan David
1989	Erik the Viking	Princess Aud
1991	The Wanderer	Narrator	(Voice)
1991	True Colors	Diana Stiles
1994	A Pin for the Butterfly	Mother
1995	Jack & Sarah	Sarah
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Lucy Steele
1996	Twelfth Night: Or What You Will	Viola
2000	Snow on Saturday	Director, Co-writer	Winner, "UCI Cinemas Award" best British short film
2003	Collusion	Mary Dolphin
2004	Dead Cool	Henny
2006	Stories of Lost Souls	Friend in crowd	segment: "Standing Room Only"
2007	Behind the Director's Son's Cut	Princess Aud
2014	Insomniacs (short)	Alice
Self
Year	Programme		Notes
1996	The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1998	Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
2015	Natural World, Return of the Giant Killers	Narrator	BBC

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Company
1985	Cabaret	Sally Bowles	Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
1986	The Rover	Helena	Swan Theatre, Stratford
1986	Two Noble Kinsmen	Gaoler's daughter	The Other Place, Stratford
1987	Richard II	Queen Isabel	Swan
1989	Othello	Desdemona	The Other Place
1992	Heartbreak House	Ellie	Theatre Royal, Haymarket
1994	Saint Joan	Joan	Strand Theatre
1994	Uncle Vanya	Yelena	Chichester Festival
1996	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella	Theatre Royal, Haymarket
1998	Closer	Anna	Lyric Theatre, London
1998	Betrayal	Emma	National Theatre
2001	The Relapse	Amanda	National Theatre
2002	Three Sisters	Masha	Theatre Royal, Bath (and tour)
2003	Mum's the Word	Linda	Albery Theatre
2004	Hamlet	Gertrude	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	Manchester Royal Exchange
2011	Little Eyolf	Rita	Jermyn Street Theatre, London
2011	Salt, Root and Roe	Menna	Trafalgar Studios, London [6][7][8][9]
2012	Orpheus Descending	Lady	Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester[10][11]
2013	Third Finger, Left Hand	Niamh	Trafalgar Studios, London
2013	Strangers on a Train	Elsie	Gielgud Theatre, London[12]
2014	Little Revolution	Sarah / various	Almeida Theatre, London[13]
2014	The Hyperchondriac	Beline	Touring,[14]
2015	Communicating Doors	Ruella	Menier Theatre, London[15]
2016	Things I Know to be True	Fran Price	Frantic Assembly

Other projects and contributions

• When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) – Shakespeare's "Sonnet 21" ("So it is not with me as with that Muse")

Writer

In July 2004 Stubbs's play We Happy Few, directed by her husband and starring Juliet Stevenson and Marcia Warren, opened at the Gielgud Theatre, London, after a try-out in Malvern.^[16] In September 2008 Reader's Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.^[17]

References

1. Edmonds, Mark (31 March 2013), "The world's fastest interview", The Sunday Times Magazine, p. 7
2. Barnett, Laura (9 March 2010). "Imogen Stubbs, actor". The Guardian. London. p. G2-23.
3. Montague-Smith, Patrick (1970). Debrett's Correct Form. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-7472-0658-9.
4. "Nunn, Sir Trevor (Robert)". Who's Who. Oxford, England: A & C Black. 2011.
5. "Imogen Stubbs and Sir Trevor Nunn separate after 21 years". Daily Telegraph. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
6. "Stubbs, Imogen Mary, (Lady Nunn)". Who's Who. Oxford, England: A & C Black. 2011.
7. Trowbridge, Simon (2008). "Imogen Stubbs". Stratfordians: a biographical dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford, England: Editions Albert Creed. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-9559830-1-6.
8. Gardner, Lynn (8 March 2011). "Private Lives – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
9. Coveney, Michael (9 May 2011). "Little Eyolf, Jermyn Street Theatre, London". The Independent. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
10. "The Stage / Listings / Orpheus Descending". Retrieved 27 October 2012.
11. "AUTUMN – the Royal Exchange Theatre". Retrieved 27 October 2012.
12. "Strangers on a Train, Based on Novel, to Star Laurence Fox and Jack Huston at London's Gielgud Theatre". playbill.com. Playbill. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
13. "Cast, Little Revolution, Almeida Theatre". Retrieved 20 September 2014.
14. http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3009/The-Hypochondriac/890
15. Lawrence, Ben. "Communicating Doors, Menier Chocolate Factory". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
16. Taylor, Paul (6 July 2004). "We Happy Few". The Independent. London. Retrieved 15 September 2008.
17. Carter, Meg (15 September 2008). "Digest revamped". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2008.

External links

• Imogen Stubbs at the Internet Movie Database