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Jenny Jules is an English actress. She started her acting career as a member of the youth theatre programme at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London.〔(20 Questions with Jenny Jules, Whatsonstage.com )〕 Her career has been closely linked with the Tricycle where she has acted numerous times; her credits there include two plays by August Wilson, both directed by Paulette Randall: ''Two Trains Running'' and ''Gem of the Ocean'', ''Walk Hard'' by Abram Hill, ''Wine in the Wilderness'' by Alice Childress, the dramatic reconstruction (by Richard Norton-Taylor) of the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry ''The Colour of Justice'', and Lynn Nottage's ''Fabulation'', directed by Indhu Rubasingham. Kathy Burke directed Jules in Debbie Tucker Green's ''Born Bad'' at the Hampstead Theatre, and Jules has also performed in Eve Ensler's ''Vagina Monologues'' over 100 times in the West End and elsewhere. Jules has performed in a variety of leading roles at the Almeida Theatre, notably in ''A Chain Play'', Theodore Ward's ''Big White Fog'' and Harold Pinter's ''The Homecoming'', both directed by Michael Attenborough, and in 2010 Rubasingham directed her in Lynn Nottage's ''Ruined''.〔(Profile on production page for Ruined on the Almeida Theatre website )〕 In 2009 she played Jane Pilkings in Wole Soyinka's ''Death and the King's Horseman'' at the National Theatre, and in 2010 she played Ruth Younger in Michael Buffong's production of ''A Raisin In The Sun'' by Lorraine Hansberry at the Manchester Royal Exchange, a performance which won her a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2011 Jules returned to the role of Mama Nadi in Charles Randolph Wright's production of Nottage's ''Ruined'' at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. In 2011, Jules won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her turn as Mama Nadi in ''Ruined''.〔(Suchet, Court, Donmar & NT Win Critics’ Awards, Whatsonstage.com )〕 In 1992 she won a Time Out Award for her portrayal of Mediyah in Pecong at the Tricycle Theatre. In 2012, Jules played Mavis in Michael Buffong's production of ''Moon on a Rainbow Shawl'' by Errol John at the National Theatre, and Regan in ''King Lear'' at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Michael Attenborough. In 2013 Jules spent most of the year playing Cassius in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female production of ''Julius Caesar'', first at the Donmar Warehouse in London, later transferring to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. In 2014 Jules played Penny in Suzan-Lori Parks new play ''Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1,2 & 3'' at the Public Theater in New York and then at ART in Boston. She is married to fellow actor Ralph Brown. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jenny Jules」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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