Juliet grew up all around the world, as her father was a senior officer in the British army. She lived in West Germany, Malta and Australia, among other far-flung places, as well as the south of England. She then spent four years at a girls' boarding school and three more at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, leaving in 1978. While at RADA, she won the Bancroft Gold Medal, and is now a member of RADA's Council, its governing body.
For eight years, Juliet was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and then she decided to move onto a wider stage. She appeared in the hit movie
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), for which she won the International Fantasy Film Award (Best Actress), the Mystfest Award (Best Actress), the Evening Standard British Film Award (Best Actress) and the Catalonian International Film Festival Award (Best Actress). She has had many other screen roles, mostly in films. Juliet was also voted the All Time Favourite Reader by the listeners of BBC Radio 4's
Woman's Hour.
In 1989, she won an ACE Award (Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries) for
Life Story and in 1992 the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (Best Actress) for
Death and the Maiden. She was recently appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by H.M. the Queen.
Juliet is a patron of War Child International.and an active campaigner in many causes. The picture on this page shows her speaking at a Free Palestine rally in London in May, 2003.
Juliet's partner is
Dr Hugh Brody, an anthropologist, and they live in London with their children Rosalind and Gabriel.
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Juliet grew up all around the world, as her father was a senior officer in the British army. She lived in West Germany, Malta and Australia, among other far-flung places, as well as the south of England. She then spent four years at a girls' boarding school and three more at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, leaving in 1978. While at RADA, she won the Bancroft Gold Medal, and is now a member of RADA's Council, its governing body.
For eight years, Juliet was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and then she decided to move onto a wider stage. She appeared in the hit movie
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), for which she won the International Fantasy Film Award (Best Actress), the Mystfest Award (Best Actress), the Evening Standard British Film Award (Best Actress) and the Catalonian International Film Festival Award (Best Actress). She has had many other screen roles, mostly in films. Juliet was also voted the All Time Favourite Reader by the listeners of BBC Radio 4's
Woman's Hour.
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