Jodhi May Biography
Jodhi May (Jodhi Tania May) is an English stage, film, and television actress. She is famously known for her role in the World Apart. In 1988, she received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. She remains the youngest recipient of that award. Her other film appearances include: The Last of the Mohicans in 1992.
Two years later, she appeared in Sister My Sister. In 2016, she also starred in A Quiet Passion. May began her career at the age of 12. In 1988, she played a role in A World Apart. For the role she received a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. She shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.
Since her debut, she has regularly been seen on film, television and the British stage. Her most notable roles include: Alice Munro in Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans. In addition, she appeared as Lea Papin in Sister My Sister. Moreover, she featured as Florence Banner in Tipping the Velvet, Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure.
In 2002, Jodhi May wrote and directed a short film called Spyhole. May appeared in Blackbird by David Harrower in August 2005. This was alongside Roger Allam at the Edinburgh Festival in a production by German star director Peter Stein. The play got a transfer to the Albery Theatre, London in February 2006. Subsequently, Blackbird won a best new play award.
Jodhi May has also played lead roles in various films. For instance, in 2010, she played the lead role of Kay in Mark Haddon’s play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse. May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller I, Anna, alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman. In 2015, she appeared in the Season 5 premiere of the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Jodhi May Age
Jodhi May was born in Camden Town, London, United Kingdom. He was born on 8th May 1975. His current age is 44 years as of 2019.
Jodhi May Net Worth
Jodhi May generates a huge sum of income through her career as an actress. As a film and television actress, she pockets more than $50,000 as salary for featuring in movies. Probably, she has a net worth in millions. Episode wise, the Game of Thrones star salary ranges from $3,000 to $550,000 per season. The icon shares a luxury apartment with her mother.
Jodhi May Family
Jodhi May was born and raised in Camden Town, London. The famous actress was raised by a single mother, Jocelyn Hakim. She is an art teacher of French-Turkish descent. Her mother, as a student arranged to wed artist designer Malcolm McLaren. Even more, Hakim arranged to pay him £50 to marry her in a Lewisham register office in 1972.
However, they divorced a few years later. May has not openly disclosed details about her father. She only stated that he is German. Furthermore, she attended Camden School for Girls.
Jodhi May Married
The talented actress is not married. Jodhi May has kept her love affairs away from the public eye. There has been claims that May is lesbian. We can not confirm neither deny these allegations. At the same time, we can not fully ascertain that she is straight. We will update you once we have factual information.
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1988- 2009
- 1988 A World Apart
- 1990 The Gift
- 1991 For the Greater Good Rose
- 1992 The Last of the Mohicans
- 1994 Second Best
- 1995 Signs and Wonders
- 1997 The Gambler
- 1999 Aristocrats
- 2006 Land of the Blind
- 2007 The Street
- 2008 Flashbacks of a Fool
- 2009 Emma
2010 to Date
- 2010 Blood and Oil
- 2010 Strike Back
- 2011 The Jury II
- 2012 Ginger & Rosa
- 2013 The Ice Cream Girls
- 2014 The Crimson Field
- 2015 Game of Thrones
- 2015 Crossing Lines
- 2016 A Quiet Passion
- 2017 Let Me Go
- 2018 Down a Dark Hall
- 2018 Moving On (Series 9)
- 2019 Gentleman Jack
Jodhi May Interview
Recently, Jodhi May deigned to join the rest of the human race when she caved in to mounting peer pressure and finally bought herself a television. The distinctly cerebral 30-year-old actress had never actually owned a TV before, and saw no reason to get one.
The temptations of Celebrity Big Brother were presumably lost on one who studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, but the playwright Stephen Poliakoff, in whose drama Friends and Crocodiles May recently acted, insisted she get one in time for the programme’s mid-January screening on BBC1. And so, a few weeks back, she took the plunge.
“Stephen did think I was crazy to be without one,” Jodhi May says, tilting her face down until all I can see is the outline of her nose and the beginnings of a blush beneath some impressive cheekbones. “Obviously, he wasn’t the first to think that, but I suppose he was rather more persuasive than most. He told me he watched a lot of television, and that so should I.”
And just how has life changed now as a result? “Well, I can’t say that it has, really. I do turn it on sometimes, but mostly not. To be honest, I don’t even notice that I have one most of the time. It’s quite a small and discreet set. It’s not one of those home-cinema screens, I’m afraid, so it rather tends to go unnoticed.”
Jodhi May did manage to fulfil the director’s other request, though, and a few weeks back, tuned into Friends and Crocodiles, a lush, lavish and quintessentially Poliakoff production which traced the lives of a wilful millionaire and his secretary over the course of many years and countless crimes of fashion. May was quietly wonderful as the dutiful Lizzie, and the reviews her performance garnered were almost universally positive. Not that she herself was aware of any such praise.
“I’ve never paid much heed to [the critics] before,” she says. “When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands. To place any kind of importance on what other people think would be … well, it would send me down a rather dangerous path, don’t you think?”
Jodhi May face tilts back up again and her smile, when it comes, reveals more warmth than perhaps either she or I had previously expected. We’ve been talking for almost 20 minutes now, and things are going well.
We repair to a small room three flights up, and if we overlook the attendant body language – she keeps her coat on throughout, her legs and arms crossed – and the fact that whenever I stray on to personal matters, she lapses into the third person as if to further illustrate just how uncomfortable she is with personal pronouns, she seems almost happy to be here.
“We-ll,” Jodhi May concedes slowly, “you basically try to do the bare minimum you can get away with, don’t you? And that, I suppose, is what I am doing here. I think that Blackbird is an amazing play, and I want people to know it’s out there.”
Co-starring Roger Allam, and written by David Harrower, Blackbird is a powerful two-hander about the reunion of a middle-aged man and a now adult woman who had an affair when the latter was just 12 years old. The man, having served time for his crime, has since assumed a new identity and is rebuilding his life when the pair unexpectedly meet again. Hardly the sort of thing you’d normally see in the West End. Jodhi May says: “Oh, it’s a very daring show, extremely provocative and challenging and exciting. I can’t wait for it to begin.”
Jodhi May says, in the manner of a quintessential luvvie, that she “loves” the theatre.
“I do, I really do. I enjoy the stamina of it, the discipline, and finding something new in each performance. It’s so invigorating.”
And it will surely consolidate what is already becoming a rather industrious 2006 for Jodhi May. Following the Poliakoff and Blackbird, she will next be seen in the film Land of the Blind, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, raising her profile all the while.
“Yes, well, I tend not to focus on that side of it,” Jodhi May says, suddenly awkward, “and best not to, really. You don’t want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate. As an actor, I think it’s really important to be as anonymous as possible. It’s your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I’d get away from the screen – well, it’s not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I’m surprised anybody does.”
But that’s precisely what the majority of actors do seek, I say.
“Oh, I’m not judging my peers. I’m speaking purely subjectively here, that’s all. Nothing more.”
SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk