The Funding Network is proud to share that Juliet Stevenson CBE, one of the UK’s finest actresses, has accepted our invitation to be a TFN Patron.

As well as an incredible career in film, television and stage, Juliet is known for her activism and advocacy, particularly for refugee and human rights causes. Juliet said, “I came to my first TFN event in May and I found the whole evening so inspiring and uplifting. I am really excited to help increase support for charities such as those that pitched at the event I attended.”

Juliet's theatre work for the RSC is legendary, and includes Olivier Award-nominated roles in Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For the National Theatre she has played Yerma, Hedda Gabbler, and Arkadina in The Seagull. Other stage work includes Grusha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Complicité, and Death and the Maiden for the Royal Court and in the West End which won her an Olivier Award. More recently she has performed the title role in The Doctor [Almeida, West End and New York), for which she won the Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Olivier Award; Mary Stuart, Duet for One (also Olivier nominated) and Hamlet, all of which transferred to the West End. Other theatre work include Wings and Happy Days, both at the Young Vic.

She won best actress at the Evening Standard Film Awards for her role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply; other film appearances include Emma, Bend It Like Beckham, Mona Lisa Smile, When Did You Last See Your Father, Being Julia, Infamous, and Reawakening. She also received three nominations for TV BAFTAs for A Doll’s House, The Politician’s Wife and Accused, and most recently was seen in Wolf (BBC1), The Man Who Fell to Earth (CBS) and Professor T (ITV). She is soon to be seen in King and Conqueror on BBC1, and in The Deal on a streaming network. She will star in a new play at the National Theatre later this year - Land of the Living by David Lan, directed by Stephen Daldry.