Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs is an English actress and writer. Her first leading film part came in Privileged in 1982, and the Royal Shakespeare Company made her name on stage. Imogen Stubbs filmed a lesbian scene in The Rainbow and went nude in A Summer Story (1988). She was born on 20 February 1961 in Rothbury, Northumberland. In 1988 she was Ursula Brangwen in the BBC serial The Rainbow, and later starred in Anna Lee. She played Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Desdemona in Othello for Trevor Nunn. Her own play, We Happy Few, opened at the Gielgud Theatre in London in 2004. In 2008 she joined Reader's Digest as a contributing editor and fiction writer.