Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen.

Early life

Stevenson was born in Kelvedon, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth (née Marshall), a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer. Stevenson's father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. When Stevenson was nine, she attended Berkshire's Hurst Lodge boarding school. She was educated at the independent St Catherine's School

St Catherine's School, Bramley

St. Catherine's School, established in 1885, is an independent girls' school in the village of Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, England; it is one of the UK's most successful girls' independent schools. As of 2011, it has some 880 pupils, of whom around 170 aged 11–18 use the schools' boarding...

 in Bramley, near Guildford

Guildford

Guildford is the county town of Surrey. England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region...

 in Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

 (RADA). Stevenson was part of 'new wave’ of actors to emerge from the Academy. Others included Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...

, Bruce Payne

Bruce Payne

Bruce Martyn Payne is an award winning English character actor and producer and was a member of the 1980's Brit Pack. Although he is best known for his villainous roles, Bruce Payne has played characters across the spectrum...

, Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser is a British actor. He attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool before going to RADA in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year....

, Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...

, Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake...

, and Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw, CBE is an Irish actress and theatre director. Although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, she is an accomplished classical actress...

. This led to a stage career starting in the early 1980s with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

.

Career

Although she has gained fame through her television and film work, and has often undertaken roles for BBC Radio

BBC Radio

BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...

, she is best known as a stage actor. Significant stage roles include her lead performance as Anna in the UK premiere of Burn This

Burn This

Burn This is a play by Lanford Wilson.-Plot:It begins shortly after the funeral of Robbie, a young gay dancer who drowned in a boating accident. In attendance were his roommates: choreographer Anna and ad man Larry...

in 1990, and as Paulina in Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden (play)

Death and the Maiden is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world premiere was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 9 July 1991, directed by Lindsay Posner...

in 1991. For the latter, she was awarded the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.

In the 1987 TV film Life Story (American title, The Race for the Double Helix), Stevenson played the part of scientist Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...

, for which she won a Cable Ace award. She is known for her leading role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Truly, Madly, Deeply is a 1990 film made for the BBC's Screen Two series.-Overview:The film was written and directed by Anthony Minghella and stars Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman. Minghella said he wrote the script specifically as “a vehicle for [Stevenson] to express all her talents...

(1991), and her roles in The Secret Rapture (1993), Emma

Emma (1996 film)

Emma is a 1996 period film based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Directed by Douglas McGrath, it stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, and Ewan McGregor.- Synopsis :...

(1996), Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...

(2002) and Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 romantic drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles...

(2003). She has more recently starred in Pierrepoint

Pierrepoint (film)

Pierrepoint , is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint....

 (2006), Infamous

Infamous (film)

Infamous is a 2006 American drama film, based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career....

(2006) as Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Born as Diana Dalziel, Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman...

 and Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering (film)

Gabriel Yared and Underworld collaborated on the film's original music score.-External links:* at TIFF, by Andrea Miller /CANOE Live...

(2006) as Rosemary, the therapist.

In 2009, she starred in ITV's A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, often cited as her magnum opus, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by the New York Times as one...

. The role won her the Best Actress Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. She enjoys a thriving career as a book reader, and has recorded all of Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

's novels as unabridged audiobooks, as well as a number of other classics, such as Lady Windermere’s Fan, Hedda Gabler, Stories from Shakespeare, and To the Lighthouse.

Personal life

Stevenson lives with anthropologist Hugh Brody, her partner since 1993. The couple have two children, both born in Camden

London Borough of Camden

In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough were already developed and had a total population of 96,795. This continued to rise swiftly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 270,197 in the middle of the century...

, London: Rosalind Hannah Brody (born 1994) and Gabriel Jonathan Brody (born late 2000/early 2001). She is an atheist

Atheism

Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...

, but considers herself a spiritual and superstitious person. In 1992, she appeared in a political broadcast for the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

. She has been a critic of the MMR vaccine

MMR vaccine

The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against measles, mumps, and rubella . It was first developed by Maurice Hilleman while at Merck in the late 1960s....

, as well as a supporter of the discredited Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known as an advocate for the discredited claim that there is a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, autism and bowel disease, and for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of that claim.Four years after...

, whose research was based on a sample of twelve children. In 2003, she appeared as the campaigning mother of an autistic child, alongside Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville , is an English stage, film, television and radio actor.-Education:...

 (as Wakefield) in the 90-minute drama, Hear the Silence, based on this issue, while Stevenson vocally joined the campaign against the MMR vaccine. Wakefield's work has since been discredited; and the articles against the MMR vaccine recanted by The Lancet

The Lancet

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals...

.

Stage

• Spirit in The Tempest
  The Tempest
  The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
  
  with Alan Rickman, Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
• Iras/Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra
  Antony and Cleopatra
  Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
  
  , with Jonathan Pryce and Patrick Stewart, Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
• Whore/Nun in Measure for Measure
  Measure for Measure
  Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...
  
  , Royal Shakespeare Company (1978)
• Caroline Thompson in The Churchill Play
  The Churchill Play
  The Churchill Play is a play by Howard Brenton. Written in 1974, the play offers a dystopian picture of an authoritarian England ten years in the future and is set in an internment camp named after Winston Churchill...
  
  (1978)
• Aphrodite/Artemis in Hippolytus
  Hippolytus (play)
  Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy....
  
  (1978)
• Lovers and Kings (1978)
• Widow/Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew
  The Taming of the Shrew
  The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
  
  (1978)
• Yeliena in The White Guard (1978)
• Miss Chasen in Once in a Lifetime
  Once in a Lifetime (play)
  Once in a Lifetime is a play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s.-Plot:The satirical comedy focuses on the effect talking pictures have on the entertainment industry...
  
  (1978)
• Lady Percy in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, On Tour, Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)
• Hippolyta/Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  (1981)
• Susan in The Witch of Edmonton
  The Witch of Edmonton
  The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.The play—"probably the most sophisticated treatment of domestic tragedy in the whole of Elizabethan-Jacobean drama"—is based on supposedly real-life events that took place...
  
  (1981)
• Clara Douglas in Money, with Miles Anderson (1981)
• Emma and Betsy, Other Worlds, Royal Court Theatre, London (1983)
• Isabella, Measure for Measure
  Measure for Measure
  Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...
  
  , Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre (1984)
• Polya, Breaking the Silence, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre, London (1984)
• Cressida, Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
  
  , Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre (1985)
• Rosalind, As You Like It
  As You Like It
  As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
  
  , Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre (1985)
• Madame de Tourvel, Les liaisons dangereuses
  Les liaisons dangereuses (play)
  Les liaisons dangereuses is a play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their...
  
  , Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre (1986)
• Yerma, Yerma
  Yerma
  Yerma is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934, and first performed that same year. Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem."-Plot:...
  
  , National Theatre, later Cottesloe Theatre, both London (1987)
• Hedda, Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
  
  , National Theatre, later Olivier Theatre, London (1989)
• Fanny, On the Verge, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (1989)
• Anna, Burn This
  Burn This
  Burn This is a play by Lanford Wilson.-Plot:It begins shortly after the funeral of Robbie, a young gay dancer who drowned in a boating accident. In attendance were his roommates: choreographer Anna and ad man Larry...
  
  , Hampstead Theatre, later West End Theatre, both London (1990)
• Paulina, Death and the Maiden
  Death and the Maiden (play)
  Death and the Maiden is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world premiere was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 9 July 1991, directed by Lindsay Posner...
  
  , Theatre Upstairs, London, then Royal Court Theatre (1991). Olivier Award for Best Actress (1992)
• Galactia, Scenes from an Execution, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles (1993)
• The Duchess of Malfi
  The Duchess of Malfi
  The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
  
  , Greenwich Theatre/ Wyndham's Theatre, London (1995)
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....
  
  , Royal National Theatre, London (1997)
• Amanda in Private Lives
  Private Lives
  Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for...
  
  with Anton Lesser, The National Theatre (1999)
• The Country, Royal Court Theatre (2000)
• We Happy Few
  We Happy Few
  We Happy Few is a 2004 play by Imogen Stubbs. It follows a group of female actors touring Shakespeare plays round the United Kingdom during World War II . It is based on the real-life touring group, the Osiris Players...
  
  , Gielgud Theatre, London (2004)
• The Alice Trilogy, Royal Court Theatre (2005)
• The Seagull
  The Seagull
  The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
  
  , The National Theatre (2006)
• Duet for One
  Duet for One
  Duet for One is a film adapted from an award-winning British play, a two-hander by Tom Kempinski, about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis. It is set in London and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky...
  
  , London, stage revival, with Henry Goodman
  Henry Goodman
  Henry Goodman is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.In 1988, he played George Green's brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning. He played character roles in episodes of the popular UK police drama The Bill...
  
   (2009)
• The Heretic
  The Heretic (play)
  The Heretic is a British black comedy play by Richard Bean about climate change and its sceptics. In 2011 it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre receiving positive reviews directed by Jeremy Herrin starring Juliet Stevenson, James Fleet, Lydia Wilson and Johnny Flynn.-Synopsis:University lecturer...
  
  , Royal Court Theatre (2011)

Filmography

• The Mallens
  The Mallens
  The Mallens was a popular Granada Television adaptation of Catherine Cookson novels that ran for 13 episodes from 1979-1980.- Plot summary :Based on the novels The Mallen Streak,The Mallen Girl and the Mallen Litter...
  
  (1979) (TV)
• Maybury (1981) (TV)
• BBC Television Shakespeare
  BBC Television Shakespeare
  The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...
  
  Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio...
  
  (1984) (TV)
• Antigone (1984) (TV)
• Oedipus at Colonus (1984) (TV)
• Life Story (1987) (TV)
• Drowning by Numbers
  Drowning by Numbers
  Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film's plot centers on three women — a grandmother, mother and daughter — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story progresses each woman successively drowns her husband...
  
  (1988)
• Stanley Spencer (1988)
• Ladder of Swords (1989)
• Living with Dinosaurs (1989) (TV)
• The March (1990)
• Truly, Madly, Deeply
  Truly, Madly, Deeply
  Truly, Madly, Deeply is a 1990 film made for the BBC's Screen Two series.-Overview:The film was written and directed by Anthony Minghella and stars Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman. Minghella said he wrote the script specifically as “a vehicle for [Stevenson] to express all her talents...
  
  (1991)
• In the Border Country (1991)
• Aimée (1991) (TV)
• A Doll's House (1992) (TV)
• Who Dealt? (1993) (TV)
• The Secret Rapture (1993)
• The Legends of Treasure Island
  The Legends of Treasure Island
  The Legends Of Treasure Island is an animated cartoon from the UK that ran from 1993-1995. It had two series of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 22–25 minutes....
  
  (1993) (TV) (voice)
• The Trial (1993)
• The World of Eric Carle (1993) (TV) (voice)
• Verdi (1994) (TV) (voice)
• The Politician's Wife (1995) (TV)
• Emma
  Emma (1996 film)
  Emma is a 1996 period film based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Directed by Douglas McGrath, it stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, and Ewan McGregor.- Synopsis :...
  
  (1996)
• Stone, Scissors, Paper (1997) (TV)
• Cider with Rosie (1998) (TV)
• Trial by Fire (1999) (TV)
• Play (2000)
• The Search for John Gissing (2001)
• Christmas Carol: The Movie
  Christmas Carol: The Movie
  Christmas Carol: The Movie is a 2001 British live action/animated film based on Charles Dickens's classic novella. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, the film features the voices of numerous actors including Simon Callow, Kate Winslet , and Nicolas Cage.- Voice cast :*Simon Callow – Charles...
  
  (2001) (voice)
• Nicholas Nickleby
  Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film)
  Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839.-Plot:In a prologue we are...
  
  (2002)
• The Pact (2002) (TV)
• The One and Only (2002)
• Bend It Like Beckham
  Bend It Like Beckham
  Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
  
  (2002)
• The Road from Coorain (2002) (TV)
• Food of Love
  Food of Love
  Food of Love is a 2002 Spanish/German film based on the 1998 novel The Page Turner by David Leavitt. The screenplay was written by Ventura Pons who also directed the feature....
  
  (2002)
• Mona Lisa Smile
  Mona Lisa Smile
  Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 romantic drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles...
  
  (2003)
• Hear the Silence (2003) (TV)
• Being Julia (2004)
• The Snow Queen
  The Snow Queen (2005 film)
  The Snow Queen is a 2005 BBC television movie that is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of The Snow Queen. Directed by Julian Gibbs, it stars Juliet Stevenson as Gerda's mother and the voice of Patrick Stewart as the raven....
  
  (2005)
• Pierrepoint
  Pierrepoint (film)
  Pierrepoint , is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint....
  
  (2005)
• Red Mercury (2005)
• A Previous Engagement (2005)
• Streetlight (2006)
• Breaking and Entering
  Breaking and Entering (film)
  Gabriel Yared and Underworld collaborated on the film's original music score.-External links:* at TIFF, by Andrea Miller /CANOE Live...
  
  (2006)
• Infamous
  Infamous (film)
  Infamous is a 2006 American drama film, based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career....
  
  (2006)
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?
  And When Did You Last See Your Father?
  And When Did You Last See Your Father? is a 2007 British drama film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by David Nicholls is based on the 1993 memoir of the same title by Blake Morrison.-Plot:...
  
  (2007)
• The Secret of Moonacre
  The Secret of Moonacre
  The Secret of Moonacre is a film adaptation of the novel The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. The film, which started filming on 1 October 2007, was released in the UK February 2009 by Warner Bros. The film will be distributed to select theatres in the United States on August 12, 2010...
  
  (2008)
• Dustbin Baby
  Dustbin Baby (film)
  Dustbin Baby is a BBC television film directed by Juliet May, based on Jacqueline Wilson's 2001 novel of the same name. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 21 December 2008. The film stars Dakota Blue Richards as April, a troubled teenager who was abandoned in a dustbin as an infant, and Juliet...
  
  (2008)
• A Place of Execution
  A Place of Execution
  A Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, often cited as her magnum opus, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by the New York Times as one...
  
  (2008)
• Agatha Christie's Marple:Ordeal By Innocence (2008) (TV)
• Triage
  Triage (film)
  Triage is a 2009 drama film starring Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee. The film’s plot is described as a dark tale of a photojournalist who comes home after a dangerous assignment in Kurdistan during the Anfal Genocide against the Kurdish people. The film focuses on the psychological...
  
  (2009)
• The Secret of Moonacre
  The Secret of Moonacre
  The Secret of Moonacre is a film adaptation of the novel The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. The film, which started filming on 1 October 2007, was released in the UK February 2009 by Warner Bros. The film will be distributed to select theatres in the United States on August 12, 2010...
  
  (2009)
• Desert Flower
  Desert Flower (film)
  Desert Flower is a 2009 German biographical film directed by Sherry Horman and starring Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins and Craig Parkinson. It depicts the life of the Somali-born model Waris Dirie.-Cast:* Liya Kebede - Waris Dirie* Sally Hawkins - Marylin...
  
  (2009)
• Law & Order: UK (2010) (TV)
• Accused
  Accused (TV series)
  Accused is a British television anthology series. Written and created by Jimmy McGovern, it stars Christopher Eccleston, Benjamin Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Andy Serkis, Marc Warren and Naomie Harris as the accused in each episode. Filming for the series took place around Manchester between May and...
  
  (2010) (TV)
• Lewis "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things" (2011) (TV)
• The Hour (2011) (TV)

Awards and Nominations

• 1992 Olivier Award Winner: Best Actress in a play for "Death and the Maiden"
• 1992 Bafta Nominated: Best Actress in a film for "Truly Madly Deeply"
• 1993 Bafta Nominated: Best Television Actress for "A Doll's House"
• 1996 Bafta Nominated: Best Television Actress for "The Politician's Wife"
• 2011 Bafta Nominated: Best Television Actress for "Accused"

Audio recordings, partial list

• Man and Superman
  Man and Superman
  Man and Superman is a four-act drama, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but with the omission of the 3rd Act...
  
  , BBC Audiobooks, 1998 (Broadcast on BBC-4 in 1996). Production featured Juliet Stevenson, Ralph Fiennes
  Ralph Fiennes
  Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....
  
   and Judi Dench
  Judi Dench
  Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
  
  . It also included an interview with the director, Sir Peter Hall
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Penguin Audiobooks, 1997
• The Plague Tales, BDD, c. 1997
• When Love Speaks
  When Love Speaks
  When Love Speaks is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April 2002.-Track listing:...
  
  (2002, EMI Classics
  EMI Classics
  EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases....
  
  ) - "Sonnet 128
  Sonnet 128
  -Synopsis:Sonnet 128 is the 128th of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, and the second of two musical sonnets. Its number suggests, like Sonnet 8, the octave of the scale as well as the 12 notes on the keyboard inside each octave -Synopsis:Sonnet 128 is the 128th of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, and...
  
  " ("How oft, when thou, my music...")
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, Unabridged, Orion audiobook (2006)
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 7 CDs (2006)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 7 CDs (2007)
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 14 CDs (2007)
• Emma by Jane Austen. Unabridged, Naxos audiobook, 13 CDs (2007)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Naxos audiobook, Unabridged (2007)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë,
• I, Coriander, by Sally Gardner,
• The King's General, by Daphne du Maurier,
• An Unequal Marriage, by Emma Tennant,
• From Shakespeare with Love, by William Shakespeare, David Tennant (Narrator), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Anton Lesser (Narrator), Alex Jennings (Narrator)
• Daphne Du Maurier Collection: Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek & My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Daniel Massey (Narrator), Michael Maloney (Narrator)
• A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
• The London Tapes, by Juliet Stevenson
• Ancient and Modern, by Sue Gee
  Sue Gee
  Sue Gee is an award-winning British novelist. Her novel The Mysteries of Glass was long-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction.- Background and career :...
  
   (2004)
• Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali, abridged (2006)
• 'Goldfish Girl' by Peter Souter (2011). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b009mtcf/Afternoon_Play_Goldfish_Girl/

External links

• Juliet Stevenson is a judge in the BBC World Service and British Council's International Playwriting Competition 2009
• Juliet Stevenson: The Power of Story Telling