Jodhi May

Jodhi May (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, for A World Apart, which she won at 12 years old.

Her other credits include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Sister My Sister (1994), Aristocrats (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), the television adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), The Jury II and I, Anna (2011), A Quiet Passion (2016), Genius (2017), Moving On (2018), Gentleman Jack (2019), The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019), and The Witcher (2019).

Early life May was born on 8 May 1975 She started her acting career at 12 years old and later studied English at Wadham College, Oxford.

Career Casting director Susie Figgis discovered May when she was a school in Camden. May first acted at the age of 12, in A World Apart (1988). For the role she received a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.

Other roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans,

In 2020, alongside Valentina Cervi, Francesco Scianna, Filippo Timi, she was in the cast of Marco Simon Puccioni's film The Invisible Thread, produced by Netflix, released in 2022.

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