Jodhi May

Jodhi Tania May (née Hakim-Edwards; 8 May 1975) is a British actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for A World Apart (1988). Her other film appearances include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Sister My Sister (1994), and A Quiet Passion (2016). May was born Jodhi Tania Hakim-Edwards in 1975 in Camden Town, London. Her name was later legally changed to Jodhi Tania May. Her mother, Jocelyn Hakim, is an art teacher of French-Turkish descent who as a student arranged to marry artist-designer Malcolm McLaren to obtain citizenship, paying him £50 to marry her in a Lewisham register office in 1972. They later divorced, a move that cost McLaren's grandmother £2,000. May has not publicly identified her father, besides stating he is German. She was educated at Camden School for Girls.