Trivia

One of the youngest actors (age 12) to ever win a Cannes Film Festival acting award for A World Apart (1988), she also won the Laurence Olivier Award for "most promising newcomer".

She had never actually owned a television, because she saw no reason to get one. In 2006, playwright Stephen Poliakoff finally convinced her to buy one so she can watch Friends & Crocodiles (2005).

In 2002, she appeared in the play "Far Away" in Paris, the entire production spoken in French.

Studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University 1994-1997

Her role in A World Apart propelled her career, garnering her early roles in notable films such as The Last of the Mohicans as Alice Munro and Sister My Sister as Lea.

She was born in London, England to a French mother and German father.

Appeared, alongside Cillian Murphy and Fiona Shaw, in a production of 'The Seagull' at the Edinburgh Festival. (August 2003)

Went to the same school (Camden School for Girls) as Emma Thompson.

For the credits of Eminent Domain (1990), they misspelled her name. Instead of Jodhi, they had Johdi May.

She portrayed Janet Stone in the film noir I, Anna, starring Gabriel Byrne.

She played Angela in On a Clear Day and Tania in The Best Man, both roles coming in 2005.