Imogen Stubbs trained at RADA, did nine years dance training at the London School of Contemporary Dance and gained a 1st in English at Oxford.

Her vast theatre experience includes productions at the RSC, The National, The Old Vic, The Donmar Warehouse and various West End productions. Recent stage credits include The Children, Clybourne Park, Things I Know To Be True, Communicating Doors, Elephants and Strangers On A Train.

For the Royal Shakespeare Company Imogen appeared in Othello, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Rover and Richard II. Additional stage credits include Gertrude in Hamlet at the Old Vic, Sarah Frankcom’s production of Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending and Private Lives, Salt, Root and Roe and A Marvellous Year For Plums.

Her film work includes Jack & Sarah, Twelfth Night, True Colours, Deadline, A Summer Story and Sense and Sensibility. Television includes The Crown, Midsomer Murders, Parents, Collusion, Big Kids, Blind Ambition and Anna Lee.

The 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction judges