Juliet Aubrey Biography

Juliet Aubrey (born 17 December 1965) is an English actress, known for playing the main antagonist Helen Cutter during the first three seasons of Primeval (2007"2009 and 2011).

Career

Born in Fleet, Hampshire, Aubrey attended King's College London from 1984, where she studied Classics and Archaeology. While there, however, her love of acting grew, and during a year studying in Italy where she joined a travelling theatre company, Juliet decided to apply for drama school on her return. She did, and went on to train for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Her first job was with the Oxford Stage Company playing Miranda in The Tempest. The Italian director Roberto Faenza gave Juliet her first film role playing opposite Jean Hughes Anglade in Look to the Sky, a film produced by Elda Ferri, and set during the Nazi Holocaust. Juliet won the Davide Donatelli award for Best Actress for her role as Hannah. Antony Page and Louis Marks then cast Juliet as Dorothea in the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch opposite Rufus Sewell, for which she won a BAFTA for Best Actress, and the Broadcasting Press Guild for Best Actress., She then joined Haris Pasovic's Sarajevo Theatre Company. She appeared in several plays with the company, all created through the actors' improvisation. She continued to build her career as a theatre actress, appearing next in Trevor Nunn's "Summerfolk", and Katie Mitchell's Ivanov at The National, Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree for Karl James at The Soho Theatre, and Three Sisters, Twelfth Night and The Collection all for Chris White. Michael Winterbottom then cast her opposite Robert Carlyle and James Nesbitt in the much acclaimed film Go Now.

Her subsequent films include Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo, Stephen Poliakoff's Food of Love for which she won La Baule European Film Festival - 1997 for Best Actress, Faenza's The Lost Lover, Giacomo Campiotti's Time to Love, Richard Eyre's Iris, Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener and Brian Gibson's Still Crazy, nominated for two Golden Globes.

Recent work includes the films Super Eruption, Matt Lipsey Caught in the Act, and 2 episodes of Outcasts (TV series), 4 episodes of the 1st Series of Criminal Justice (TV series), and the highly acclaimed Five Daughters.

On 16 March 2012, it was announced that Aubrey will play Emma, in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, between 17 May and 9 June 2012. Aubrey will star alongside John Simm as Jerry and Colin Tierney as Robert.

In 2012, she appeared in Hunted for BBC One and Cinemax. She plays Orla Fanta.

Personal life

Aubrey was born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire, the daughter of Dr. Roland and Sylvia Aubrey. She is half Welsh and half English. She has two siblings.

She is the cousin of David Howell Evans (The Edge), guitarist of the U2. "We used to play as kids" She is quoted saying.

In 2001 she married production designer Steve Ritchie, whom she met several years earlier while filming in Newcastle upon Tyne; they have two daughters.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director / Notes
1992	The Big Battalions	Susan	TV series (2 episodes)
1993	The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes	Dolores	TV series (1 episode: "The Last Vampyre")
	Jona che visse nella balena	Hannah	Roberto Faenza
1994	Middlemarch	Dorothea Brooke	TV series (7 episodes) Bafta, Best TV Actress Award Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Actress
	Jacob	Leah	TV film
1995	Go Now	Karen Walker	Michael Winterbottom
	Measure for Measure	Isabella	TV series (1 episode: "Measure for Measure")
1996	Take Pity	Carolina	short
	Death of a Salesman	Miss Forsythe	TV film
1997	The Moth	Sarah Thorman	TV film
	Supply and Demand	Chomsky	TV film
	Welcome to Sarajevo	Helen Henderson	Michael Winterbottom
	For My Baby	Lilian Glass	Film
	Food of Love	Madeline	Stephen Poliakoff
1998	Still Crazy	Karen Knowles	Brian Gibson
	The Unknown Soldier	Sophia Carey	TV film, David Drury
1999	Il tempo dell'amore	Martha	Giacomo Campiotti
	The Lost Lover	Asya	Roberto Faenza
	Extremely Dangerous	Annie	TV series (4 episodes)
2000	The Canterbury Tales	Voice	TV series (1 episode: "The Journey Back")
2001	Cyclops	Esther Powell	TV movie
	Once Seen		short
	Iris	Young Janet Stone	Richard Eyre
2002	Bertie and Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth	TV film
	Ella and the Mothers	Madeline	TV film
2003	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Susan Henchard	TV film
2005	Dalziel and Pascoe	Dr. Eleanor Brown	TV series (2 episodes)
	The Constant Gardener	Gloria Woodrow	Fernando Mereilles
2006	A Good Murder	Kay	TV film
	Midsomer Murders	Ginny Lamington	TV series (1 episode: "Country Matters")
2007	Judge John Deed	Fran Pavely	TV series (2 episodes)
	A Class Apart	Olivia Troth	TV film
	City of Vice	Jane Fawkland	TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.5")
	Primeval	Helen Cutter	TV series (18 episodes: 2007-2009 and 2011)
2008	Caught in the Act	Marlene	Steven Speirs
	Criminal Justice	Mary Coulter	TV mini-series (4 episodes)
2009	Storm	Nicky	short
	Law & Order: UK	Emma Sandbrook	TV series (1 episode: "Vice")
2010	Five Daughters	Marie Alderton	TV series (3 episodes)
	Lewis	Selina Mortmaigne	TV series (1 episode: "The Dead of Winter")
	F	Helen Anderson	Film
2011	Outcasts	Josie Hunter	TV series (2 episodes)
	Super Eruption	Kate	TV film
	Vera	Felicity Calvert	TV series (1 episode: "Hidden Depths")
2012	Hunted	Orla Fanta	TV series (2 episodes)
	Lilyhammer	Karen Sokolowsky	TV series (1 episode: "Reality Check")
	Silent Witness	Miriam Wade	TV series (2 episodes: "Redhill")
	The White Queen	Lady Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick	TV series (6 episodes)