Jodhi May (born May 8, 1975 in Camden Town, London) is a British actress.
She began her acting career as a child, with her first starring role being Molly Roth in A World Apart, for which she won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and an Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She is notably the youngest person to win the Cannes Film Award for Best Actress, being just 13 at the time.
Some of her best known roles include Alice Munro in The Last of the Mohicans, Léa in Sister My Sister, Sarah Lennox in the miniseries Aristocrats, Susan Gilbert in A Quiet Passion and Queen Calanthe in The Witcher (2019). She also had a small but memorable role as Maggy the Frog in Season 5 of Game of Thrones. She has been cast as Empress Natalya in the upcoming series Dune: Prophecy, replacing Indira Varma.
Filmography includes:
- A World Apart (1988) as Molly Roth
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992) as Alice Munro
- Sister My Sister (1994) as Léa Papin - won a Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
- Aristocrats (1999) as Lady Sarah Lennox
- The Turn of the Screw (1999) as The Governess
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) as Anne Boleyn note
- Defiance (2008) as Tamara Skidelsky
- Emma (2009) as Anne Taylor
- Game of Thrones (2015) as Maggy the Frog
- AD: The Bible Continues (2015) as Leah (wife of Caiaphas)
- Crossing Lines (2015) as Evelyn St. Clair
- A Quiet Passion (2016) as Susan Gilbert
- Genius (2017) as Helen Dukas
- Down a Dark Hall (2018) as Heather Sinclair
- The Witcher (2019) as Queen Calanthe of Cintra
- Small Axe (2020) as Selma James ("Mangrove")
- Dune: Prophecy (TBA) as Empress Natalya
