Juliet Stevenson Biography (1956-)

Original name, Juliet Stevens; born October 30, 1956, in Essex, England; daughter of Michael Guy (an army officer) and Virginia Ruth (a teacher; maiden name, Marshall) Stevens; sister of Gerda Stevens (an actress); children: (withHugh Brody) Rosalind Stevenson Brody. Addresses: Agent: IFA Talent Agency, 8730 Sunset Blvd., Suite 490, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Occupation: Actress, writer
Birth Details: October 30, 1956; Essex, England

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Emma and Betsy, Other Worlds, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1983
Isabella, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, 1984, later Barbican Theatre, London.
Polya, Breaking the Silence, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre, London, 1984
Cressida, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, 1985, later Barbican Theatre, 1985
Rosalind, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Theatre, 1985, later Barbican Theatre
Madame de Tourvel, Les liaisons dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit Theatre, 1986, later Barbican Theatre.
Title role, Yerma, National Theatre, later Cottesloe Theatre, bothLondon, 1987
Title role, Hedda Gabler, National Theatre, later Olivier Theatre,London, 1989
Fanny, On the Verge, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 1989
Anna, Burn This, Hampstead Theatre, later West End Theatre, both London, 1990
Paulina, Death and the Maiden, Theatre Upstairs, London, then Royal Court Theatre, both 1991
Galactia, Scenes from an Execution, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles,1993
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Royal National Theatre, London, 1997
The Country, Royal Court Theatre, 2000
Appeared with Royal Shakespeare Company as Octavia and Iras in Anthonyand Cleopatra, Stratford Theatre; as Caroline Thompson in The Churchill Play, Stratford Theatre; as Aphrodite and Artemis in Hippolytus, Stratford Theatre; as Titania and Hippolyta in Midsummer Night's Dream, Stratford Theatre, later Barbican Theatre; as Clara Douglas in Money, Stratford Theatre, later Barbican Theatre; as Miss Chasen in Oncein a Lifetime, Aldwych Theatre, London; in The Taming of the Shrew, Stratford Theatre; in The Tempest, Stratford Theatre; as Yeliena inThe White Guard, Aldwych Theatre; and as Susan in The Witch of Edmonton, Stratford Theatre, later Barbican Theatre; also appeared in TheTrackers of Oxyrhynchus, National Studio, London.
Major Tours
Appeared as Lady Percy in Henry IV, Parts I and II, Royal Shakespeare Company.
Television Appearances
Specials
Nora Helmer, "A Doll's House," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1992
Annie Lee, Cider with Rosie, PBS, 1998
Helen West, Trial by Fire, PBS, 1999
Episodic

Penny Foster, "The Nicholson Story," This Is David Lander, Channel4 (England), 1988
Herself, The Full Wax, BBC1, 1992
Appeared as rape victim in "Rape," Omnibus, BBC.
Other Television Appearances
(Television debut) Barbara Mallen, The Mallens (series), Granada (England), 1978
Thaisa, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (also known as BBC TelevisionShakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre), BBC, 1984
Title role, Antigone, BBC, 1984, broadcast in The Theban Plays, Arts and Entertainment, 1988
Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, BBC, 1984, broadcast in The Theban Plays, Arts and Entertainment, 1988
Rosalind Franklin, Double Helix (also known as Life Story and The Race for the Double Helix), BBC, then Arts and Entertainment, 1987
Vicky, Living with Dinosaurs, 1989
Claire Fitzgerald, The March, BBC, 1990
The wife, Who Dealt?, 1993
Isobel Coleridge, The Secret Rapture, Channel 4, 1993
Flora Matlock, "The Politician's Wife" (miniseries), Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1995
Jean, Stone, Scissors, Paper, BBC, 1997
Second woman, Play, Channel 4, 2000
Appeared as Lucy Sadler, Amy, as Fliss, Bazaar and Rummage,as Elizabeth Von Reitburg, Freud, as Joanna Langston, Maybury,as Ruth, Out of Love, and as Hilda Spencer, Stanley, all BBC.
Film Appearances
(Film debut) Cissie Colpitts 2, Drowning by Numbers, Film Four, 1988, released in the United States by Prestige Films/Miramax Films, 1991
Alice Howard, Ladder of Swords, Magnaserve Ltd., 1989
Lucy, Aimee, 1990
In the Border Country, 1991
Nina, Truly, Madly, Deeply (originally broadcast in England on BBC-TV), Samuel Goldwyn, 1991
Fraulein Burstner, The Trial, Angelika Films, 1993
Narrator, Paris Was a Woman, 1995, then Zeitgeist Films, 1996
Mrs. Elton, Emma, Miramax, 1996
Gwyneth Moore, The Search for John Gissing, Sunlight Productions,2001
Voice, Christmas Carol: The Movie (animated), Illuminated Film Co./Film Consortium, 2001
RECORDINGS
Audio Books
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Penguin Audiobooks, 1997
The Plague Tales, BDD, c. 1997
WRITINGS
Books
(Contributor) Faith Evans, editor, Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare'sWomen Today, Theatre Arts (New York City), 1989

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

London Theatre News, November/December, 1991, pp. 8-9.
Plays and Players, November, 1991, pp. 6-8.
Sunday Times (London) February 2, 1992, p. 4.

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