Geraldine James

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Summary

Geraldine James is an English actor known for The Jewel in the Crown, Band of Gold, and stage and screen roles including Marilla Cuthbert in Anne with an E. Her work spans period drama, contemporary television, and Shakespeare, with recurring roles as complex women. In interviews, she has called Marilla’s growing independence and willingness to speak up “her feminism,” and has argued that older women should have more roles. James is a long-standing patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and speaks publicly about growing up with an alcohol-dependent mother; no public statements on party politics, DEI, or other identity-based activism are on record.