Jodhi May (née Jodhi Hakim-Edwards) (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient (age 12) of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, for A World Apart (1988).
May was born in Camden Town, London, England.[1] Her mother, French-Turkish Jocelyn Hakim, had been previously briefly married to the fashion designer and music manager Malcolm McLaren, who at the time was using the name "Malcolm Edwards"; after their divorce and her subsequent relationship with a German man ("May's German father, and her continued lack of contact with him, is a subject she won't broach"),[2] Jocelyn gave the name she had adopted- Hakim-Edwards- to her daughter Jodhi.[3] She was educated at Camden School for Girls.[4]
In 2018, as a writer, she contributed and appeared in the TV series Moving On.[1] In 2019, she played Queen Calanthe in The Witcher, Netflix's live-action adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's popular book series.[7]
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