Jodie Whittaker

Jodie Whittaker ( born in 1982 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire ) is a British actress.

Biography

Jodie Whittaker began her acting studies in 2002 at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where such well-known thespians such as Eileen Atkins, Honor Blackman and Daniel Craig completed their training. After she had the occurred in the school's productions and interprets the female lead in the comedy Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida, Whittaker graduated in 2005 her three -year degree from winning the Guildhall Gold Medal.

In the autumn of the same year, the 1.68 m great actress her London stage debut at Shakespeare 's Globe celebrated as Ampelisca in Mark Rylances staging of Plautus ' comedy The Storm. 2006 was followed by an appearance in the television play The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two - Sheds from the series The Afternoon Play, in which it is stressed as a philosophy student with an inherited allotment of a deceased uncle (played by James Bolam ) face. According to the BBC production, which earned her the Best Actor Award at the Royal Television Society Awards, Jodie Whittaker was awarded the contract for the female lead role in Roger Michell's Venus tragicomedy. The film, which is based on an original screenplay by Hanif Kureishi, is about a little successful London theater veterans (played by Peter O'Toole ), who is torn by an acquaintance with the aimless 19 -year-old great-niece of a friend from his lethargy. Venus, which starts in selected U.S. cinemas on 20 December 2006, was praised by critics mainly due to the acting performance of his lead actor Peter O'Toole and competed at the award ceremony of the British Independent Film Awards in November 2006 against productions such as the later winning film This Is England and The Queen by Stephen Frears and Shane Meadowes. Likewise, the praise of the international film critics received Jodie Whittaker awarded, which was nominated for her first film role, inter alia, for the British Independent Film Award for most promising newcomer and in the U.S. for a Satellite Award.

After the filming of Venus saw Jodie Whittaker beginning of May 2006 again at London's Almeida Theatre next to Jack Davenport, Amanda Root, Sean Chapman and Amanda Drew in Michael Attenborough's revival of Maxim Gorky's Enemies ( Enemies ). In the new version of the playwright David Hare about the Russian society on the brink of revolution, she acted as the youngest member of the ensemble in the role of young and romantic idealist Nadya. In the same year, followed by guest appearances on, among other things Reginald Hills detective series Dalziel and Pascoe and the BBC telefilm This Life: Ten Years On. 2008 Whittaker was seen in Vicente Amorim's Good drama, the film adaptation of a play by CP Taylor. In the $ 15 million -dollar production of Americans Viggo Mortensen slipped into the role of a scientist who is seduced to join the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

2012 took over Whittaker at Polly Findlay's modern staging of Sophocles' Antigone at the Royal National Theatre in the title role.

Jodie Whittaker, who is in her theater work through their alto and mezzo-soprano and mimicking dialects proven (including Dublin, Essex, Liverpool and Yorkshire accent), worked before her acting career as a nursing assistant in a nursing home. Her other skills include squash, athletics and successfully passing the PADI Open Water Diver Course.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: The Afternoon Play (TV series, episode: The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two - Sheds )
  • 2006: Doctors (TV series, episode: Ignorance Is Bliss )
  • 2006: Venus
  • 2006: Dalziel and Pascoe ( Dalziel and Pascoe TV series)
  • 2006: This Life: Ten Years On ( TV movie )
  • 2007: The St. Trinian's (St. Trinian's )
  • 2008: Good
  • 2008: Tess of the D' Urbervilles ( TV miniseries )
  • 2008: The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall ( TV movie )
  • 2008: Wired (TV series, three episodes)
  • 2008: Love between the lines ( Consuming Passion, TV film )
  • 2009: Svengali ( TV movie )
  • 2009: White Wedding
  • 2009: Swansong
  • 2009: Bounty - Perrier 's Bounty ( Perrier 's Bounty )
  • 2009: St. Trinian 's: The Legend of Fritton 's Gold
  • 2009: Cranford ( TV miniseries )
  • 2010: Royal Wedding ( TV movie )
  • 2010: Ollie Kepler 's Expanding Purple World
  • 2011: Marchlands ( TV series)
  • 2011: Attack the Block
  • 2011: One Day
  • 2011: A Thousand Kisses Deep
  • 2011: Black Mirror ( mini-series )

Stage plays

  • 2005: The Storm
  • 2006: The Enemies ( Enemies )
  • 2012: Antigone

Award nominations

  • 2006: nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Venus ( Best Young Actress )
  • 2006: Nominated for the Royal Television Society Award for The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two - Sheds ( Best Actress )
  • 2006: Nominated for the Satellite Award for Venus ( Best Actress - Comedy or Musical)
  • 2007: Nominated for the London Critics Circle Film Award for Venus ( Best British Newcomer )
  • 2012: nominated for a Black Reel Award as part of the acting ensemble of Attack the Block
The Queen (film) David Hare (playwright) Antigone (Sophocles) St Trinian's (film) Cranford (TV series) One Day (2011 film) Black Mirror (TV series) Black Reel Awards Integrated Authority File
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