Juliet Aubrey

Early life

The youngest of three siblings, Aubrey was born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire. Her first experience of acting was at her school, playing a doctor in George and the Dragon on stage at St Nicholas' School, Hampshire at the age of six. She then attended the Roman Catholic private school Farnborough Hill in Farnborough, Hampshire, and still attends reunions with her old schoolfriends whenever possible (2016).

She furthered her education from 1984, at King's College London, where she studied Classics and Archaeology. During her time as a student, she spent a year studying in Italy, touring with a travelling theatre company. Passionate about acting, she applied successfully to train for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

In 1991, she toured with the Oxford Stage Company, playing Miranda in The Tempest. In 1993, Italian director Roberto Faenza gave Aubrey her first film role playing opposite Jean-Hugues Anglade in Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993), an Italian film set during the Nazi Holocaust. In 1994, Antony Page and Louis Marks then cast Aubrey as Dorothea in the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch, opposite Rufus Sewell, for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress, and the Broadcasting Press Guild for Best Actress.

In theatre, she has appeared in Trevor Nunn's Summerfolk (1999), and Katie Mitchell's Ivanov (2002), at the National Theatre, Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree for Karl James at the Soho Theatre, and Chris White's Three Sisters, Twelfth Night and The Collection.

In 1995, Michael Winterbottom cast her opposite Robert Carlyle and James Nesbitt in the television film Go Now.

Aubrey's subsequent films include Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Stephen Poliakoff's Food of Love, for which she won Best Actress at La Baule European Film Festival Faenza's Lost Lover, Giacomo Campiotti's Time to Love, Richard Eyre's Iris, Fernando Meirelles's Constant Gardener, (alongside Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz) and Brian Gibson's Still Crazy, nominated for two Golden Globes. Other features include Mat Cod's Super Eruption. Television work includes Primeval (2007), The White Queen (2012), Criminal Justice (2008), Vera, Hunted (2012), and Five Daughters. Her recent feature films are Scott Hicks's Fallen; Mitch Davis's Stuck; Fabio Guaglione's Mine; and worked with Bryan Cranston in Brad Furman's Infiltrator.

Aubrey played Lily Hill, working alongside Rupert Grint and Phoebe Dynevor in the television series Snatch. BBC Radio 4 The Archers (2024) as Eve Chilcott.

Personal life

In 2001, Aubrey married production designer Steve Ritchie, whom she had met several years earlier while filming an ITV adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Moth in Newcastle upon Tyne. They have two daughters.

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She is a keen runner, intends to run the Great North Run and a marathon (2016).

Filmography

References

References

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