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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Imogen Stubbs (1961 - ) Actress Born: February 20, 1961, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England Education: Exeter College, Oxford (English); RADA, London A classically-trained, blonde beauty, Stubbs was educated at Oxford (where her classmates included Hugh Grant and director Michael Hoffman) and at RADA. Primarily known in England for her stage performances at the Ipswitch Repertory Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among her more notable roles include the leads in the musicals The Boyfriend and Cabaret and such classical parts as Helena in The Rover, the Queen to Jeremy Irons' Richard II and the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. Stubbs made an impressive debut as the reactive title character in the British-French co-production NANOU (1987), which briefly featured Daniel Day-Lewis as the heroine's friend. Subsequently she offered a poignant performance in Piers Haggard's UN VERANO DE AMOR (1988), a period drama which saw her cast as a young woman whose heart is broken by a caddish barrister (James Wilby) and won praise as a seductive Norse princess in Terry Jones' LAS LOCAS AVENTURAS DE ERIK EL VIKINGO (1989). She seemed slightly miscast as a Senator's daughter in her American feature debut, EL VERDADERO SER (1991) but bounced back in two 1995 films. She was briefly seen as Richard E. Grant's wife who dies in childbirth in JACK AND SARAH and was Emma Thompson's rival for Hugh Grant's affection in Ang Lee's SENSATEZ Y SENTIMIENTOS (1995). Stubbs co-stars as Viola in TWELFTH NIGHT (1996), directed by her husband Trevor Nunn. Television has perhaps provided Stubbs with her widest audience. After co-starring in the British miniseries THE RAINBOW (shown in the US in 1989 on A&E), she tackled the lead in a series of TV movies centering on a former policewoman now working as a private detective. As Anna Lee, Stubbs garnered critical praise and positive comparisons with Helen Mirren's PRIME SUSPECT character, Jane Tennison. To date, six installments have been aired in the US on A&E.
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