Jodhi May (born May 1975) is an English actress.
Born in Camden Town, London, England, she first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's A World Apart. The role earned her a best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi. She remains the youngest recipient of the award.
Other than a brief lull while studying English at Wadham College, Oxford, she has had near constant work in the subsequent two decades, and can regularly be seen on film, television and the British stage. Often cast as the innocent abused, or as a highly intelligent women having a breakdown - she is acclaimed for her emotional intensity and moving performances. Half-French, half-German, she is extremely reserved about her family and private life, to the frequent frustration of interviewers.
Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans; as an incestuous lesbian in Sister My Sister; as Florence Banner in the BBC's adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Queen Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and opposite Ralph Fiennes, as Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure. May has also directed a short film, and has a script in development.
Jodhi was born in 1975. She was born and brought up in London, England, UK. She went to Wadham College, Oxford University 1994-1997. She studied and received a Masters in English. During her time at Wadham she read a lot of literature. She has been acting since she was twelve.
