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Season 1 Episode 8 Available For Watch
Jodhi May poster
Jodhi May poster

Jodhi May as Queen Calanthe

Character: «Queen Calanthe»
This character appeared in Game of Thrones sporadically, but became fateful. The fortune-teller predicted to the young Cersei that evil fate would bring, and the audience remembered the actress May. The Witcher allowed the performer to reveal new facets of talent.

Illegitimate child


Jodi Tanya Hakim-Edwards (this is the real name of the artist) was born in London's Camden Town on May 8, 1975. Later, the girl's last name was changed to "May".


Jodi's mother, an art teacher with French-Turkish roots, entered into a fictitious marriage before her birth. The student needed to obtain citizenship, and she became the wife of the artist-designer Malcolm McLaren, paying him 50 pounds. They were registered in Lewisham in 1972. Later, the grandmother of the" husband " paid 2,000 pounds for the newlyweds to divorce. Jodie was born out of wedlock. So May didn't know her father. The daughter was only told that he was from Germany.

May was educated at Camden Girls ' School. Her film debut took place at the age of 12 – it was the drama "The Divided World" in 1988. The role of Molly brought Jody the Cannes Film Festival Award. Since then, the debutante has combined her studies at Wadham College in Oxford with work in films and TV series.

Worked with celebrities


Young Jody starred with director Michael Mann in the film adaptation of Cooper's novel "The Last of the Mohicans". The role of Alice allowed her to work together with the future three-time Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis. In the TV movie "Another of the Boleyn family", May portrayed Anne, the second wife of Henry the Eighth, sent to the block.


In 2002, the British actress wrote the script for the short film "Peephole" and shot it herself. In August 2005, Jody participated in the play of the famous German director Peter Stein "The Blackbird". The premiere took place at the Edinburgh Festival. "Moving" to London, the production won the award for best new play. Jodi continued to work in the theater and on television. In 2015, May appeared in the guest role of Maggie the Frog in the TV series "Game of Thrones" (season 5).

"The Witcher": The Lioness of Cintra


Jodie was happy to join the cast of The Witcher series. She was entrusted with the role of the queen of Calanthe, the ruler of Cintra and the grandmother of the main character, Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan). The Queen is considered a fair and brave monarch.


The heroine May fights on the battlefields next to ordinary soldiers, loves hunting and other male fun. And, when it comes to relatives, the queen becomes a real "lioness", for which she received her nickname. In the first season of the Netflix series, Calanthe died, and if Jody returns, it will be in the flashbacks of The Witcher.