Jodhi May has been acting since the age of 12. For her debut role in the film A World Apart, she won the Most Promising Newcomer award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. She then went on to star in Michael Mann's The Last Of The Mohicans.
Since graduating from Oxford University, Jodhi has built up an impressive body of work in film, television and theatre, including Stephen Poliakoff's Friends and Crocodiles; The Other Boleyn Girl, alongside Natasha McElhone and Jared Harris; Einstein and Eddington with David Tennant, Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis; and an episode of Jimmy McGovern's The Street. Most recently, she starred in Blood And Oil for the BBC.
On the big screen, Jodhi has appeared in Defiance, and Flashbacks of a Fool, both alongside Daniel Craig; Nightwatching with Martin Freeman and Toby Jones; and Sister My Sister with Joely Richardson and Julie Walters, for which Jodhi won a best actress award at the Valladolid Film Festival.
Jodhi can currently be seen at the Donmar Warehouse in Jamie Lloyd's production of Mark Haddon's debut play, Polar Bears. Her other work on stage includes Chekhov's The Seagull; The Talking Cure, opposite Ralph Fiennes at the National Theatre; a French production of Caryl Churchill's Far Away; and David Harrower's Blackbird which won the 1997 Olivier award for best new play.
SELECTED CREDITS
Film
2008 Tamara Skidelsky, DEFIANCE
2008 Evelyn Adams, FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL
2007 Geertje, NIGHTWATCHING
2000 Grace Julia Stepney, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
1994 Lea, SISTER MY SISTER
1992 Alice Munro, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
1988 Molly Roth, A WORLD APART
Television
2010 Claire Unwin, BLOOD AND OIL, BBC
2009 Anne, EMMA, BBC
2008 Elsa Einstein, EINSTEIN AND EDDINGTON, BBC/HBO
2007 Jean Lefferty, THE STREET, BBC
2006 Miranda Lennox, THE AMAZING MRS PRITCHARD, BBC
2005 Lizzie Thomas, FRIENDS AND CROCODILES, BBC
2003 Anne Boylen, THE OTHER BOYLEN GIRL, BBC
2002 Mirah Lapidoth, DANIEL DERONDA, BBC
2002 Florence Banner, TIPPING THE VELVET, BBC
1999 Miss, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, ITV
Stage
2010 POLAR BEARS, Donmar Warehouse
2006 BLACKBIRD, West End/Edinburgh International Festival
2003 THE SEAGULL, Edinburgh International Festival
2003 THE TALKING CURE, National Theatre
2002 FAR AWAY, Theatre Des Bouffes
2001 PLATONOV, Almeida Theatre
2000 JERUSALEM SYNDROME, Soho Theatre
