Jodhi May
Jodhi May ( MAY 1975 in Camden Town, London) is a British film and stage actress.
Life
Her first appearance has Jodhi May at the age of twelve years in the film Two Worlds. For this role she receives the same award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1988 - together with its film partners Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi. To this day she is making her the youngest actress who was awarded at Cannes with this price.
Only interrupted by a short period in which they studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, Jodhi May still works as an actress and is regularly seen in feature films, television productions and on the British stage. She is often cast as innocent abused or highly intelligent woman with a collapse and praised for the emotional density of their presentation and their various role types.
Jodhi May is German - French origin, but speaks in interviews very reluctant about her family and her private life. Important appearances she had, among other things as Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans and as a maid in Sister My Sister. In 2002, she leads the first time directed the short film spyhole, for which she also wrote the screenplay.