Jenna Coleman

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Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986), credited since June 2013 as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress.

She is known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Clara Oswald in the BBC series Doctor Who, Queen Victoria in the ITV drama Victoria and Joanna Lindsay in the BBC series The Cry. Coleman was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and began her acting career at an early age as a member of a theatre company called In Yer Space.

While auditioning for drama schools in 2005, she was chosen to play Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale.

She received critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for the Most Popular Newcomer award at the 2006 National Television Awards.Coleman went on to play "hard girl" Lindsay James in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2009), Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top (2012), Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes' four part mini-series Titanic (2012) and Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff's original drama series Dancing on the Edge (2013).

She appeared as Lydia Wickham in the BBC drama miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) and as Katrina Clark in the romance film Me Before You (2016).

In 2018, she starred in the BBC series The Cry as Joanna Lindsay.

Early life

Jenna-Louise Coleman was born in Blackpool on 27 April 1986, the daughter of Karen and Keith Coleman. Her father is a joiner and fitter of bar and restaurant interiors. She has an older brother named Ben, a joiner. Her grandmother named her after the character of Jenna Wade from the American TV series Dallas. She attended Arnold School in Blackpool, where she was head girl. While at school, she was a member of the theatre company In Yer Space, with whom she performed in the play Crystal Clear at the Edinburgh Festival. She won an award for her performance, and the play was also received favourably. She was offered a place to study English at the University of York, but turned it down in order to accept the role of Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale.

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Career

In 2005, Coleman acquired the part of Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale. She was nominated for the "Most Popular Newcomer" award at the British Soap Awards in 2007, and she was nominated for the "Most Popular Newcomer" award at the National Television Awards in 2006. She was nominated for "Best Actress," "Most Female," and "Best Dramatic Achievement" awards at the 2009 British Soap Awards. The TV Choice Awards' "Best Actress" honor she was nominated. Coleman would be starring Terry Jones as "hard girl" Lindsay James in May 2009. Coleman, who was 23 years old at the time of her casting, described the thrill of playing a schoolgirl as "surreal."

Coleman will be playing Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top in December 2010. The adaptation was scheduled to air in April 2011, but it was postponed due to a rights conflict between the production company and Braine's estate. By 2012, the conflict was settled, and the show aired in two parts on September 26 and 27, 2012. With a small role in Captain America: The First Avenger, she made her debut in 2011. Annie Desmond appeared in Julian Fellowes' four-part Titanic series "The Eliza Doolittle of the ship" and "the Cheeky little Cockney."

In the adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley, Lydia Wickham appeared as Lydia Wickham. During Christmas 2013, three episodes were shown on BBC One.

Coleman was cast as Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff's original drama series Dancing on the Edge, which follows the fortunes of a black jazz band in the 1930s. In February 2013, the programme premiered on BBC Two.

Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat announced at a press conference on Monday that Coleman would play the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). Moffat chose her for the role because she worked well with Smith and could talk faster than she could. She auditioned for the role in under the guise of auditioning for Men on Waves (an anagram for "Women Seven"): she would be the first female character on the show.

Coleman, who appeared in the first episode of the seventh series as Oswin Oswald, a guest star, at the time. Coleman debuted as a series regular in the Christmas special episode "The Snowmen" as Victorian lords and barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald. Coleman played a third version of the character in the episode, a woman from twenty-first-century London who simply named Clara Oswald. This version, as "The Bells of Saint John," begins her travels as the Doctor's faithful companion, including after his transformation into the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi in the 2013 Christmas special episode "The Time of the Doctor." Coleman would continue as Clara for Series 9 in the 2014 Christmas special episode "Last Christmas." However, Coleman had to abandon the show to take on the role of Queen Victoria in an ITV series, but this was her last series.

She returned to the show for Twelfth Doctor's last episode "Twice Upon a Time" where she made a cameo appearance; Doctor Who's 2017 Christmas special for Victoria aired on the same evening as the first Christmas special for Victoria. Jenna Coleman appeared on television as Jenna Coleman in Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, the first Doctor to broadcast on August 4, 2013.

Coleman appeared in an eight-part drama based on ITV's eight-part drama during the reign of the British king and Empress of India, Queen Victoria. The actress confessed that she was not fully informed about Victorian history but that she did an excellent job. Coleman expressed her admiration for the monarch when she was interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She argued that this position enabled her to step out of her "box" as a northern working-class woman, which Emmerdale had put her in. Victoria premiered on ITV on August 28, 2016; in September 2016, ITV renewed Victoria for a second series. In December 2017, a Christmas special was also ordered, and a new series was announced.

Coleman was the narrator of a Royal Caribbean advertisement campaign in 2017. Coleman was confirmed to appear in The Cry, a BBC drama based on Helen FitzGerald's 2013 book.

Coleman appeared in All My Sons, a New Vic Theatre production that ran from 13 April to August 8th, as well as a cinema screening on National Theatre Live on Sunday. Coleman would make a guest appearance in an episode from series five of the dark comedy series Inside No. st. With an estimated broadcast date later this year, there is a chance to landmine in the year. On February 3, 2020, series five returned to the screen.

Coleman said in an interview with Graham Norton on BBC Radio 2's website on May 11, 2019 that if it be renewed by ITV, she intends to return to Victoria for a fourth series, but that the show will be taking "a breather" before production resumes. Coleman was chosen to play Marie-Andrée Leclerc in Netflix and BBC's drama The Serpent, a dramatization of the life of convicted serial killer Charles Sobhraj in the same year. The Serpent's production began in Bangkok in September 2019 and continued into 2020, with an anticipated BBC broadcast later this year. As with most other film and television production, work on The Serpent was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming in the United Kingdom started on August 17th and was finished on August 28th. The Serpent's premiere date was postponed due to a delay in filming. On BBC One, it debuted on January 1st 2021.

Coleman performed in The Remote Read, a proposed series of online drama performances aimed at theatre workers who were stranded by the pandemic, during the pandemic. On May 2, 2020, the first production under this banner, a recreation of Tom Stoppard's A Separate Peace (1966), was broadcast via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. As part of a set of audiobooks in Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales, Coleman wrote Pressures, Residential by Philip Hensher for UNICEF UK, as well as The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter.

Coleman re-invents her role as Princess Melia Antiqua in the Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, which also includes a new epilogue set after the main story. Melia was first identified as Melia in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 in 2022, where she is depicted as Queen of the Kettles Nation.

"Bags of Joy" was Coleman's top-selling commercial campaign in the United Kingdom's 2021 Christmas ad campaign. Joy is shown to give Christmas gifts to family and relatives out of a bag that is larger on the inside.

In May 2021, Coleman was cast as Johanna Constantine, the great-great-grandmother of John Constantine's great-grandmother, in DC Comics' The Sandman TV series.

Coleman appeared in the dark comedy Klokkenluider in February 2021. On February 28, filming in East Sussex began in a three-week shoot in a COVID-secure "bubble." On October 8, 2022, the film was announced as being on display at the 2022 London Film Festival.

It was later revealed that she was in charge of Joan Bright's undercover Whitehall bunker during World War II and pushed Ian Fleming to create the character of Miss Moneypenny in his James Bond novels. No further announcements about this planned series have been made as of September 2022.

Coleman was announced to play Liv Taylor in the Amazon prime thriller Wilderness, based on B.E. in June 2022. In early summer 2022, Jones' book of the same name would premiere in British Columbia, with filming beginning in British Columbia.

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