Background
Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames.
Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames.
She was educated at two independent schools: Street Paul"s Girls" School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the "token girls" in the sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree.
Her acting career started with Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse and her first professional success, while still at RADA, was as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Wolsey, Ipswich. Additional stage work includes Saint Joan the Strand and Heartbreak House at the Haymarket and in Jessica Lange"s London production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1997. When Love Speaks (2002, Electric and Music Industries Classics) – Shakespeare"s "Sonnet 21" ("So it is not with me as with that Muse")
In September 2008 Reader"s Digest announced that she had joined the magazine as a contributing editor and writer of adventure stories.
She graduated from RADA in the same class as Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen, and has since become an Associate Member of RADA.