Jodhi May Filmography

Flashbacks of a Fool

Actors: Daniel Craig, Eve, Harry Eden, Olivia Williams, Helen McCrory

Synopsis: Having squandered his stint in the spotlight on hard drugs and reckless sex, washed-up Hollywood has-been Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) reflects on the summer of innocence and tragedy that would alter the course of his life after receiving news that his childhood best friend has suddenly died. As he Read More

Nightwatching

Actors: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Emily Holmes, Jodhi May, Natalie Press

Synopsis: Director Peter Greenaway explores the life of Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt in a biographical feature that uses the 1642 painting "Night Watch" as a launching point to explore the 17th Century artist's life from an entirely new perspective. British film and television star Martin Henderson Read More

On a Clear Day

Actors: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Billy Boyd

Synopsis: A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and technology makes his position unnecessary. While Frank Read More

Friends and Crocodiles

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Eddie Marsan, Damian Lewis, Jodhi May

Synopsis: British helmer Stephen Poliakoff, the man responsible for 2003's acclaimed The Lost Prince (about a young British monarch whom the regents locked away to hide his epileptic fits), returns with the feature Friends and Crocodiles, starring Damian Lewis (An Unfinished Life), Jodhi May (The House of Mirth Read More

Bye Bye Blackbird

Actors: James Thierree, Jodhi May, Izabella Miko, Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale

The Other Boleyn Girl

Actors: Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris, Steven Mackintosh, Philip Glenister

Synopsis: U.K. documentary filmmaker Philippa Lowthorpe brings an experimental approach to the costume drama The Other Boleyn Girl, produced for television by BBC Films. Shot with a handheld digital camera, the film is a largely improvised project based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. In 16th Read More

The Escapist

Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Andy Serkis, Gary Lewis, Jodhi May, Paloma Baeza

Synopsis: Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directs the revenge thriller The Escapist. Escaped convict Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis, Gollom in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) breaks into the house of commercial pilot Denis (Jonny Lee Miller) and kills his pregnant wife, Valerie (Paloma Baeza). The baby Read More

Daniel Deronda

Synopsis: Produced for British television, Daniel Deronda was adapted from George Eliot's final novel, written in 1874 (and first filmed in 1921). As was her habit, Eliot laid bare the hypocrisy and venality of Victorian-era "class culture," at the same time admitting that a certain amount of conformity was Read More

Tipping the Velvet

Actors: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis: Originally produced in the U.K. for BBC1, where it first aired on October 9, 2002, the three-part miniseries Tipping the Velvet was adapted from Sarah Waters' best-selling debut novel of the same name. Set in the 1890s, the series focuses on the romance between Nan Astley (played by Rachel Read More

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Actors: Ciarán Hinds, James Purefoy, Jodhi May, Juliet Aubrey, Polly Walker

Synopsis: Produced for the BBC in 2001, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the second British miniseries version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel (the first was filmed in 1978). This time, Ciarán Hinds stars as Michael Henchard, an unemployed drunkard who, in a moment of greedy delirium, sells his wife, Susan (Juliet Aubrey Read More

The House of Mirth

Actors: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century New York. The story opens as Lily (Gillian Read More

Warriors

Actors: Matthew MacFadyen, Cal Macaninch, Damian Lewis, Shaun Dooley, Tom Ward

Synopsis: The ambitious two-part British miniseries Warriors (aka Peacekeepers) managed to put a human face on the war in Bosnia, and also raised several provocative questions concerning the U.K.'s controversial participation in the conflict. By focusing on a select group of soldiers and their families, the Read More

The Turn of the Screw

Actors: Jodhi May, Pam Ferris, Colin Firth

Synopsis: This adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James, produced for British television and shown in the United States as part of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre series, stars Jodhi May as Miss, a young woman hired as a governess by the Master (Colin Firth), a charming but mysterious man who wants Miss to Read More

Aristocrats

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution. The three-part TV miniseries follows the four Lennox sisters, daughters of Lord Richmond, from youth to Read More

The Woodlanders

Actors: Emily Woof, Rufus Sewell, Cal Macaninch, Anthony Haygarth, Jodhi May

Synopsis: British documentary filmmaker Phil Agland turned to drama with this re-creation of Thomas Hardy's rural Wessex of the late 19th century, adapted from Hardy's 1887 novel. In the woodland Wessex community of Little Hintock, laconic woodsman Giles Winterbourne (Rufus Sewell) lives in a cottage Read More

The Gambler

Actors: Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, Luise Rainer

Synopsis: This British-Dutch-Hungarian biographical drama combines incidents from the life of novelist Feodor Dostoyevsky with a dramatization of his short novel The Gambler. The character of Polina in the novel was based by Dostoyevsky on Polina Suslova, his 1862-63 lover. In the tradition of Dennis Read More

The Scarlet Letter

Actors: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Edward Hardwicke

Synopsis: Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel of hypocrisy among America's pilgrims was brought to the screen by director Roland Joffe in this 1995 feature. Demi Moore stars as Hester Prynne, a new arrival to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1666. Prynne, who interacts freely with slaves and Quakers and Read More

Second Best

Actors: William Hurt, Chris Cleary Miles, Keith Allen, Prunella Scales, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Actor William Hurt delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in this drama from Oscar-winning cinematographer-turned-director Chris Menges. Hurt stars as Graham Holt, a repressed Welsh postmaster who lives a reclusive bachelor's existence with his suicidal father (Alfred Lynch), who is in Read More

Sister My Sister

Actors: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield

Synopsis: In this stark drama based on actual events in a small French town in the early '30s, a pair of repressed sisters slowly lose their grip on reality, leading to horrific consequences at the home where they're employed as maids. Christine (Joely Richardson), a domestic servant in the home of haughty Read More

The Last of the Mohicans

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the Read More

Eminent Domain

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate

Synopsis: Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches out to his friends for moral support, but they turn their backs on him. Worse still, he doesn't know why he's been targeted Read More

Isabelle Eberhardt

Actors: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Isabelle Eberhardt dramatizes the tragic true story of the iconoclastic Swiss-born writer, who gained notoriety for both her lifestyle and her work in North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Eberhardt (Mathilda May) began dressing as a man and converted to Islam in her teens. As the Read More

Max and Helen

Actors: Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Martin Landau plays legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in this made-for-cable offering from director Philip Saville. Based on Wiesenthal's book, Treat Williams plays Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor relating his story to Simon, who has tracked down the Nazi commandant in charge of the camp Read More

A World Apart

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, David Suchet, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: Cinematographer Chris Menges' first directorial effort, A World Apart was inspired by the lives of South African journalist Ruth First and her daughter Shawn Slovo (who wrote the film's screenplay). Barbara Hershey plays the fictional counterpart to Ms. First, Diana Roth, with Jodhi May as her Read More