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IMOGEN STUBBS

Name: Imogen Stubbs                                                                       
Born: 20 February 1961                                                                     
                                                                                           
Imogen, Lady Nunn, known as Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961), is a British           
actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is               
married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called               
Jesse and a daughter called Ellie.                                                         
                                                                                           
Imogen Stubbs was born in Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, where her           
father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where               
they inhabited an elderly river barge on the Thames. Educated at St Paul's Girls'         
School and then Westminster School, where she was one of the "token girls" in             
the Sixth Form, she went on to Exeter College, Oxford, where she gained a First           
Class degree. She graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and               
Iain Glen. She has since become an Associate Member of RADA. She achieved                 
success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notable as Desdemona in "Othello",   
which was directed by Trevor Nunn, now her husband and the father of her                   
daughter Ellie and son, Jesse. Additional stage work includes "St. Joan" at the           
Strand Theatre and "Heartbreak House" at the Haymarket and in Jessica Lange's             
London production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1997.