Education
Born in Fleet, Hampshire, Aubrey attended King"s College London from 1984, where she studied Classics and Archaeology.
Born in Fleet, Hampshire, Aubrey attended King"s College London from 1984, where she studied Classics and Archaeology.
Amongst other roles she is particularly celebrated for playing Dorothea in Middlemarch, and Helen Cutter in Primeval. While there, however, her love of acting grew, and during a year studying in Italy where she joined a travelling theatre company, Aubrey 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. She then joined Haris Pasovic"s Sarajevo Theatre Company.
She appeared in several plays with the company, all created through the actors" improvisation. Michael Winterbottom then cast her opposite Robert Carlyle and James Nesbitt in the much acclaimed film Go Now.
Other features include Matt Lipsey"s Caught in the Acting, and Mat Cod"s Super Eruption.
Television work includes The White Queen, Criminal Justice, Vera, Hunted, and the highly acclaimed Five Daughters.
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 British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Middlemarch opposite Rufus Sewell, for which she won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Actress, and the Broadcasting Press Guild for Best Actress. Aubrey"s subsequent films include Winterbottom"s Welcome to Sarajevo, Stephen Poliakoff"s Food of Love—for which she won Best Actress at Louisiana Baule European Film Festival—Faenza"s The Lost Lover, Giacomo Campiotti"s Time to Love, Richard Eyre"s Iris, Fernando Meirelles"s Constant Gardener and Brian Gibson"s Still Crazy, nominated for two Golden Globes.
