Jodhi May (née Jodhi Hakim-Edwards) (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient (age 12) of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, for A World Apart (1988).

Her other credits include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Sister My Sister (1994), Aristocrats (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), the television adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), The Jury II and I, Anna (2011), A Quiet Passion (2016), Genius (2017), Moving On (2018), Gentleman Jack (2019), The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019), and The Witcher (2019).

May was born in Camden Town, London, England.^[1] Her mother, French-Turkish Jocelyn Hakim, had been previously briefly married to the fashion designer and music manager Malcolm McLaren, who at the time was using the name "Malcolm Edwards"; after their divorce and her subsequent relationship with a German man ("May's German father, and her continued lack of contact with him, is a subject she won't broach"),^[2] Jocelyn gave the name she had adopted- Hakim-Edwards- to her daughter Jodhi.^[3] She was educated at Camden School for Girls.^[4]

She started her acting career at 12 years old, and later studied English at Wadham College, Oxford.^[5]

May first acted at the age of 12, in A World Apart (1988).^[1] For the role she received a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.^[6]

Other roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans,^[1] Lea Papin in Sister My Sister,^[1] Lady Sarah Lennox in Aristocrats, Florence Banner in Tipping the Velvet.^[1] Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003).^[1] May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller I, Anna, alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman.^[1]

In 2018, as a writer, she contributed and appeared in the TV series Moving On.^[1] In 2019, she played Queen Calanthe in The Witcher, Netflix's live-action adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's popular book series.^[7]

In 2020, alongside Valentina Cervi, Francesco Scianna, Filippo Timi, she was in the cast of Marco Simon Puccioni's film The Invisible Thread, produced by Netflix, released in 2022.