Jessica Raine
Jessica Raine was born in Eardisley, England, United Kingdom on May 20th, 1982 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 42, Jessica Raine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jessica Raine (born Jessica Helen Lloyd, 1982) is an English actress.
Jenny Lee is best known for her role in the first three episodes of BBC One's drama Call the Midwife.
Early life and education
Raine was born Jessica Helen Lloyd in Eardisley, Herefordshire, where she was raised on her father's farm. She is the younger of two children of farmer Allan Lloyd (descended from the Lloyd family of Baynham Hall, who were well-known for decades as bonesetters alongside their farming pursuits), as well as his mother Sue, who trained as a dancer and then worked as a nurse. She wanted to be an actress from the age of 13, when her father appeared in amateur dramas with the Eardisley Little Theatre in Kington, Herefordshire.
At Hereford College of Arts, she completed a BTEC in photography and studied drama and cultural studies, Bristol's University of the West of England. She was refused by every drama school she applied to, so she went to Thailand and taught English as a second language.
Personal life
Raine began a friendship with fellow actor Tom Goodman-Hill in 2010 after they met while doing a play. On the 30th of August 2015, Goodman-Hill and Raine married. She gave birth to a son in 2019.
Career
She returned home after a year and was accepted by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for the second time. She worked part-time as a waitress and for BT Group in London, in anticipation of starting her education.
Raine began a fruitful stage career after graduating in 2008, first appearing in Simon Stephens' Harper Regan as Lesley Sharp's goth daughter. In David Hare's Gethsemane, Tamsin Greig's 16-year-old daughter appeared.
Raine appeared in Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes in London as a teenage wild-child Jasmine and then as a secretary in Clifford Odets' Return to the Moon. She has appeared in Ghosts and Punk Rock, where she received the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Supporting Actress. The Changeling, a Young Vic's revival of Middleton and Rowley's 17th-century tragedy. Raine appeared in Beyond Ballets Russes at the London Coliseum in 2012.
Raine's first screen credits appeared in a 2009 episode of Garrow's Law and a small part in the 2010 film Robin Hood.
In the first three series of the BBC One drama Call the Midwife, Jenny Lee starred as the lead actress. Raine had left the show at the end of season 3 to pursue a film in the United States on March 9, 2014.
She has appeared on radio as Felice in the Murray Gold play Kafka the Musical, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 2011. She appeared in Ed Harris' radio play The Wire, the Wall, for the first time in February 2011.
Raine was a guest star on "Hide" in 2013. Verity Lambert, the original producer of Doctor Who, appeared in the fact-based drama An Adventure in Space and Time later this year, revealing the series's creation as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
Raine appeared on the cast of the BBC Two detective drama Line of Duty for season 2 as Detective Constable Georgia Trotman, who works for the AC12 anti corruption unit.
Raine played Tuppence Beresford in the series Partners in Crime based on Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence novels in July 2015, rather than in the 1920s.
Raine played Alison Laithwaite in The Last Post in 2017, which she has described as "my favorite character I've played so far, ever." It was a dramatic change... She's self-destructive, witty, and she's climbed the walls with rage and boredom, but she wants to have fun.” This was seen as a distinct spin on her Call the Midwife character.
In the BBC One drama series Baptiste, Raine played Genevieve Taylor, a British liaison officer for Europol in the Netherlands.