Jodie Whittaker

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Jodie Whittaker (2018)
Jodie Whittaker at the Toronto International Film Festival (2008)

Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born June 17, 1982 in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire ) is a British actress .

biography

Jodie Whittaker began her acting studies in 2002 at the prestigious London Guildhall School of Music and Drama . After she appeared in school productions and interpreted the female lead in the Shakespeare comedy Troilus and Cressida , Whittaker completed her three-year studies in 2005 by winning the Guildhall Gold Medal.

In the fall of the same year, the 1.68 m tall actress made her London theater debut at Shakespeare's Globe as Ampelisca in Mark Rylance's production of Plautus ' comedy The Storm . In 2006, she appeared in the television game The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two-Sheds from the series The Afternoon Play , in which, as a stressed philosophy student, she is confronted with an allotment garden inherited from a deceased uncle (played by James Bolam ). After the BBC production, which won her the Actor Award at the Royal Television Society Awards , Jodie Whittaker won the female lead in Roger Michell's tragic comedy Venus . The film, which is based on an original script by Hanif Kureishi , is about a less than successful London acting veteran (played by Peter O'Toole ), who is torn from his lethargy by the acquaintance of the aimless 19-year-old great niece of a friend. Venus , which opened in selected US cinemas on December 20, 2006 , was praised by the critics primarily for the acting performance of its lead actor Peter O'Toole and competed against productions like the at the British Independent Film Awards at the end of November 2006 later winning film This Is England and The Queen by Shane Meadowes and Stephen Frears respectively . Jodie Whittaker also received praise from international film critics, who was nominated for her first film role for the British Independent Film Award as the most promising new discovery and for a Satellite Award in the USA .

After the shooting of Venus was seen Jodie Whittaker early May 2006 again at London's Almeida Theater next to Jack Davenport , Amanda Root, Sean Chapman and Amanda Drew Michael Attenborough's revival of Maxim Gorky's Enemies ( Enemies ). In the new version of the playwright David Hare about Russian society on the verge of the revolution, she acted as the youngest member of the ensemble in the role of the young and romantic idealist Nadya. In the same year came guest appearances in Reginald Hills crime series Dalziel and Pascoe and the BBC television film This Life: Ten Years On . In 2008 Whittaker starred in Vicente Amorim's drama Good , a film adaptation of a play by CP Taylor . In the production costing 15 million US dollars, the American Viggo Mortensen slipped into the role of a scientist who was seduced into joining the NSDAP in Germany in the 1930s .

In 2011, Whittaker starred in the science fiction action comedy Attack the Block on the side of John Boyega and Nick Frost and in an episode of the science fiction series Black Mirror with Toby Kebbell .

In 2012 Whittaker took the title role in Polly Findlay's modern production of Sophocles ' Antigone at the Royal National Theater .

She starred in the crime series Broadchurch from March to April 2013 and returned to her role as Beth Latimer for the following two seasons , until the series closed in 2017.

On June 16, 2017, Whittaker was introduced by the BBC as the 13th reincarnation of the Doctor , the title character of the series Doctor Who . She took over the role from the 2017 Christmas Special, succeeding Peter Capaldi , who has held this role since 2013. It is also the first woman in this role since the beginning of the series in 1963. With Chris Chibnall , of the series at the same time with her as showrunner of Steven Moffat takes over they had previously for Broadchurch worked.

Jodie Whittaker, who proved herself in her theater work with her alto and mezzo-soprano and the imitation of dialects (including Dublin, Essex, Liverpool and Yorkshire accents), worked as a nursing assistant in a retirement home before starting her acting career.

Personal

Whittaker has been married to American actor Christian Contreras since 2008 . Her nephew Harry Whittaker starred in the TV series Emmerdale before he passed away on July 1, 2014 at the age of 3.

Whittaker's first child was born in April 2015. The family lives in north London.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: The Afternoon Play (TV series, episode 4x02)
  • 2006: Doctors (TV series, episode 7x155)
  • 2006: Venus
  • 2006: Dalziel and Pascoe ( Dalziel and Pascoe , TV series, episode 11x02)
  • 2006: This Life: Ten Years On (TV movie)
  • 2007: The Girls of St. Trinian (St. Trinian's)
  • 2008: Good
  • 2008: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (miniseries, 4 episodes)
  • 2008: The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (TV movie)
  • 2008: Wired (miniseries, 3 episodes)
  • 2008: Love Between the Lines ( Consuming Passion , TV movie)
  • 2009: Svengali (TV movie)
  • 2009: White Wedding
  • 2009: Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
  • 2009: Roar (short film)
  • 2009: Bounty - Perrier's Bounty (Perrier's Bounty)
  • 2009: Wish 143 (short film)
  • 2009: The Girls of St. Trinian 2 - On a Treasure Hunt (St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)
  • 2009: Cranford (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2010: Accused ( Accused , TV series, episode 1x04)
  • 2010: Royal Wedding (TV movie)
  • 2010: The Kid
  • 2010: Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
  • 2011: Marchlands (TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2011: Attack the Block
  • 2011: Two in one day (One Day)
  • 2011: A Thousand Kisses Deep
  • 2011: Black Mirror (TV series, episode 1x03)
  • 2011: The Night Watch (TV movie)
  • 2012: Ashes
  • 2012: Dust (short film)
  • 2012: Spike Island
  • 2013: Good Vibrations
  • 2013-2017: Broadchurch (TV series, 24 episodes)
  • 2014: Hello Carter
  • 2014: Save Christmas! (Get Santa)
  • 2014: Emotional Fusebox (short film)
  • 2014: The Assets (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 2014: The Smoke (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 2014: Black Sea
  • 2016: Adult Life Skills
  • 2017: Don't betray me ( Trust Me , miniseries, 4 episodes)
  • 2017: Journeyman
  • since 2017: Doctor Who (TV series)

Stage plays

  • 2005: The Storm
  • 2006: The Enemies
  • 2007: A Gaggle of Saints
  • 2007: Awake and Sing!
  • 2012: Antigone

Award nominations

Web links

Commons : Jodie Whittaker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jodie Whittaker (Sunday Times Magazine, March 18, 2018) - Chrissy Iley. March 18, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Exclusive interview: Jodie Whittaker on being the first woman to play Doctor Who. March 18, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 (UK English).
  3. ↑ cf. Bamigboye, Baz: How the lord saw good in Myra Hindley . In: Daily Mail (London), November 11, 2005, ED 1ST 04, p. 54
  4. ↑ cf. Parker, Mike: Culture - A twist of fate . In: Morning Star, August 18, 2005
  5. ↑ cf. McNeil, Robert: TV review: Dream of peace in our allotted time . In: The Scotsman, 1st Ed., Jan 18, 2006, p. 52
  6. ↑ cf. Laws, Roz; Cole, Paul; Haywood, Bob: Jodie takes Brum road to the stars . In: Sunday Mercury, First Edition, October 22, 2006, p. 2
  7. ↑ cf. Report to moviegod.de
  8. ↑ Jodie Whittaker: Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord to be a woman. In: BBC.co.uk. June 16, 2017, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ cf. Profile at gsmd.ac.uk (engl.)
  10. ↑ Leigh Holmwood: Jodie Whittaker: 'I work a lot and no one knows who I am' , The Independent. June 18, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2013. 
  11. ↑ http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/huddersfield-actress-jodie-whittaker-supporting-4931895
  12. ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s12/emmerdale/news/a583460/emmerdale-pays-tribute-to-toddler-who-played-marlon-and-rhonas-son.html
  13. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed June 20, 2016
  14. ↑ Jodie Whittaker: Rise of a venus with her feet on the ground . March 21, 2015. Accessed May 12, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Whittaker, Jodie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whittaker, Jodie Auckland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , United Kingdom