Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer.

In the 1980s Stubbs achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as Desdemona in Othello, which was directed by Trevor Nunn.

Her first leading part was in Privileged (1982), followed by A Summer Story (1988).

In 1982

she also appeared in her first film, Privileged.

Stubbs graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen, and later became an Associate Member of RADA.

In 1988, Stubbs was a notable Ursula Brangwen in a BBC serialization of The Rainbow, and in 1993 and 1994 had the title role in Anna Lee.

In 1994, Stubbs married Trevor Nunn.

The couple have two children: a son and a daughter, Ellie Nunn, who is also an actress.

She played Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

Other stage work includes Saint Joan at the Strand Theatre and Heartbreak House at the Haymarket, and in 1997 she played in a London production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Her first play, We Happy Few, was produced in 2004.

In July 2004, Stubbs's play We Happy Few, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Juliet Stevenson and Marcia Warren, opened at the Gielgud Theatre, London, after a try-out in Malvern.

In 2008 she joined Reader's Digest as a contributing editor and writer of fiction.

Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on a vintage river barge on the Thames.

She was educated at Cavendish Primary School, then at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the girls in the mixed sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree.

Her acting career started at Oxford, where she played Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse.

After graduating, she enrolled at RADA, and while there had her first professional work, playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.

In September 2008 Reader's Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.

In April 2011, Stubbs announced that she and her husband were separating.