Joanne Froggatt
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 23, 1980 (age 46)
- Birthplace
- Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
Joanne Froggatt (born 23 August 1980) is a British actress. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Anna Bates in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey, for which she received three Emmy nominations and won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2017 to 2020, she starred as Laura Nielson in the ITV/Sundance drama series Liar. Froggatt rose to prominence with her portrayal of Zoe Tattersall on the soap opera Coronation Street (1997–1998). She played Ruth Tyler, Sam Tyler's mother in original UK version of the fantasy police drama Life on Mars (British TV series) (2006). She went on to star in the television films Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003), See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006), and Murder in the Outback (2007), before winning the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her leading role in In Our Name (2010). Other film credits include Filth (2013), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Mary Shelley (2017), and Downton Abbey (2019). Froggatt was born and brought up in the village of Littlebeck in North Yorkshire. Her parents, Ann and Keith Froggatt, having run a corner shop, next started a rare-breed sheep farm on a smallholding near Whitby. Froggatt has likened her childhood setting to the backdrop of Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights. Froggatt initially joined a drama group in Scarborough, and then left her family home at the age of 13 to attend the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire. In 1996, Froggatt made her TV debut in the long-running ITV drama The Bill, and shortly afterwards landed the role of teenage mother Zoe Tattersall in Coronation Street. She left the programme in 1998, when her character was written out. In 1999, she appeared in the first four episodes of the first series of prison drama Bad Girls, portraying teenage mother Rachel Hicks. In 2003, Froggatt played the leading role in the controversial one-off drama Danielle Cable: Eyewitness, based on the true story of a teenage girl who witnessed the murder of her boyfriend in a reputed road rage attack. While researching the role, she met Cable, who later contacted her to commend her on her portrayal. The film earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Single Drama. In 2022, she starred in Last Light, an apocalyptic thriller TV series on Peacock.
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Filmography
The Magnificent Seven
TV · as Harriet Talbot · 8 eps
The Trial of Louise Woodward
TV · as Susan · 5 eps
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Movie · as Anna Bates
Fudge Sundae
Movie · as Gemma
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
Movie · as Self
MobLand
TV · as Jan Da Souza · 20 eps
Breathtaking
TV · as Dr. Abbey Henderson · 3 eps
North Shore
TV · as Abigail Crawford · 6 eps
Women of Steel
Movie · as Narrator
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Movie · as Anna Bates
Last Light
TV · as Elena Yeats · 5 eps
Sherwood
TV · as Sarah Vincent · 3 eps
Angela Black
TV · as Angela Black · 6 eps
Downton Abbey
Movie · as Anna Bates
The Commons
TV · as Eadie Boulay · 8 eps
A Crooked Somebody
Movie · as Chelsea Mills
One Last Thing
Movie · as Jaime
Mary Shelley
Movie · as Mary Jane Clairmont
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
Movie · as Wendy (voice)
Liar
TV · as Laura Nielson · 12 eps
Bob the Builder: Building Sky High
Movie
A Street Cat Named Bob
Movie · as Val
Starfish
Movie · as Nicola Ray
Dark Angel
TV · as Mary Ann Cotton · 2 eps
Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole
Movie · as Narrator
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Secrets
TV · as Lexie · 1 ep
Filth
Movie · as Mary
uwantme2killhim?
Movie · as Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton
Still Life
Movie · as Kelly Stoke
True Love
TV · as Ruth · 1 ep
In Our Name
Movie · as Suzy
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
Movie · as Saskia
Downton Abbey
TV · as Anna Smith · 47 eps
Identity
TV · 1 ep
Echoes
Movie · as Anya
Moving On
TV · as Kelly · 1 ep
Spooks: Code 9
TV · as Hannah · 2 eps
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
Movie · as Joanne Lees
Missing
Movie · as Sybil Foster
Life on Mars
TV · as Ruth Tyler · 2 eps
Robin Hood
TV · as Kate · 39 eps
Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
TV · 2 eps
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
TV · as Maureen Smith · 2 eps
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Island at War
TV · as Angelique Mahy · 6 eps
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Movie · as Danielle Cable
The Last Detective
Movie · as Josie/Celia
Red Cap
TV · 1 ep
The Last Detective
TV · as Josie / Celia · 1 ep
Miranda
Movie · as Jacquie
The Stretford Wives
Movie · as Dawn Richards
Nice Guy Eddie
TV · 1 ep
Paradise Heights
TV · as Julia Sawyer · 6 eps
Lorna Doone
Movie · as Lizzie Ridd
Other People's Children
TV · as Becky · 4 eps
Rebus
TV · as Gail Maitland · 1 ep
Lorna Doone
TV · as Lizzie Ridd · 2 eps
Nature Boy
TV · as Jenny · 3 eps
Bad Girls
TV · as Rachel Hicks · 4 eps
The Royle Family
TV
dinnerladies
TV · as Sigourney · 1 ep
The View
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
A Touch of Frost
TV · as Anne · 2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Casualty
TV · as Lucy Curry · 1 ep