Early life

She was born Jodhi Tania Edwards in 1975 in Camden Town, London, to a French-Turkish mother and German father. Her name was later legally changed to Jodhi Tania May.

Her mother, Jocelyn Hakim, is an art teacher of French-Turkish Jewish descent who as a student arranged to marry artist-designer Malcolm McLaren to obtain citizenship, paying him £50 to marry her in a Lewisham register office in 1972. They later divorced, a move that cost McLaren’s grandmother £2000 to secure for him. Jodhi has not publicly identified her father, besides stating he is German. She was educated at Camden School for Girls.

May first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's A World Apart. The role earned her a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.

Other than a brief lull while studying English at Wadham College, Oxford, she has had near constant work since her debut, and can regularly be seen on film, television and the British stage.

Career

Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, Lea Papin in Sister My Sister, Florence Banner in Tipping the Velvet, Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure.

In 2002, May wrote and directed a short film called Spyhole.

In August 2005, May appeared in Blackbird by David Harrower alongside Roger Allam at the Edinburgh Festival in a production by German star director Peter Stein. The play got a transfer to the Albery Theatre, London in February 2006. Blackbird subsequently won a best new play award.

In 2010, she played the lead role of Kay in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse.

May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller I, Anna, alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman.

In 2015 she appeared in the Season 5 premiere of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988	A World Apart	Molly Roth	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
1990	Max and Helen	Miriam Weiss	TV film
	The Gift	Sonia Parsons	TV miniseries
	Eminent Domain	Ewa
1991	For the Greater Good	Rose Kellner	TV film
1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Alice Munro
1994	Second Best	Alice
	Sister My Sister	Lea	Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
1995	Signs and Wonders	Claire Palmore	TV film
	The Scarlet Letter	Pearl	Voice
1997	The Gambler	Anna Snitkina	Silver Dolphin Award for Best Actress
	The Woodlanders	Marty South
1999	Aristocrats	Sarah	TV miniseries
	Warriors	Emma	TV film
	The Turn of the Screw	The Governess	TV film
2000	The House of Mirth	Grace Julia Stepney
2001	Dish	Mo	Short
	Round About Five	Bicycle Courier	Short
2002	Tipping the Velvet	Florence Banner	TV series
	The Escapist	Christine
	Daniel Deronda	Mirah Lapidoth	TV film
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl	Anne Boleyn	TV film
	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Elizabeth Jane	TV film
2004	Blinded	Rachel Black
2005	On a Clear Day	Angela
	Bye Bye Blackbird	Nina
	Friends and Crocodiles	Lizzie Thomas	TV film
	The Best Man	Tania
	The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag	Jean Ibbotson	TV film
2006	Land of the Blind	Joe's Mother	Uncredited
	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard	Miranda Lennox	TV series (6 episodes)
2007	Nightwatching	Geertje
	The Street	Jean Lefferty	TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.2.6")
2008	Flashbacks of a Fool	Evelyn Adams
	Einstein and Eddington	Elsa Einstein	TV film
	Defiance	Tamara Skidelsky
2009	Emma	Anne Taylor	TV miniseries (4 episodes)
	Sleep With Me	Lelia	TV film
2010	Blood and Oil	Claire Unwin	TV film
	Strike Back	Layla Thompson	TV series (6 episodes)
2011	The Jury II	Katherine Bulmore	TV series (5 episodes)
	I, Anna	Janet Stone
2012	Ginger & Rosa	Anoushka
2012	The Scapegoat	Blanche	Broadcast on ITV in September 2012
2013	The Ice Cream Girls	Poppy Carlisle
2014	The Crimson Field	Adelinde Crecy	TV series (1 episode)
	Common	Coleen O'Shea	BBC One, 6 July 2014
2015	Game of Thrones	Maggy	TV series (1 episode: The Wars to Come)
	A.D. The Bible Continues	Leah, wife of Caiaphas	TV series (Main cast, 12 episodes)
2016	A Quiet Passion	Susan Gilbert	Release Date: September 2016 (UK)
	Let Me Go	Beth	Post-production

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