Juliet Stevenson

Who is Juliet Stevenson?

Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE is an English actress of stage and screen. She won an Olivier Award in 1992 and was made a CBE in the 1999 Queens Birthday Honours.

Stevenson joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, going on to play Isabella in Measure for Measure, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida and Madame de Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She also starred in the title role in the National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler. For her role as Paulina in Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court Theatre and in the West End, she won the 1992 Olivier Award for Best Actress. She received three previous Olivier nominations in the 1980s. For her role as Stephanie in the 2009 revival of Duet for One, she received her fifth Olivier nomination.

She has been nominated three times for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for A Doll's House, The Politician's Wife and Accused. In 1990, she starred in the film Truly Madly Deeply directed by Anthony Minghella, receiving a Best Actress BAFTA nomination. Her other films include, Emma, Bend It Like Beckham, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia and Infamous.