Joanne Froggatt

Known for ActingBorn 1980-08-23 (age 46)Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Nice Guy Eddie

MobLand

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines

Downton Abbey

A Street Cat Named Bob

Other People's Children

Island at War

The Last Detective

Life on Mars

Lorna Doone

Still Life

Bad Girls

The Royle Family

A Touch of Frost

dinnerladies

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Moving On

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers

Nature Boy

Women of Steel

Mary Shelley

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

Breathtaking

True Love

Sherwood

The Stretford Wives

Identity

Robin Hood

Filth

North Shore

Rebus

Liar

Red Cap

Starfish

One Last Thing

Angela Black

The Commons

A Crooked Somebody

Dark Angel

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

Last Light

The Secrets

Echoes

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

Missing