Jo Hartley

Acting · Born 1972-03-12 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

Jo Hartley is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the films Dead Man's Shoes (2004), This Is England (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Torvill & Dean (2018), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Sweetheart (2021), and Bank of Dave (2023). Television credits include This Is England '86 (2010), Not Safe For Work (2015), In My Skin (2018), After Life (2019-2022), Mandy (2021), Das Boot (2022), Death In Paradise (2023), Passenger (2024), and Adolescence (2025). Hartley was born in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, and brought up in a working-class family, attending North Chadderton School in Chadderton, in Oldham. She started acting at the age of 11 in her school production of The Sound of Music as Gretel Von Trappe. She joined…

Filmography

• This Is England as Cynth
• Dead Man's Shoes as Marie
• Eddie the Eagle as Janette
• The Young Victoria as Landlady
• When the Lights Went Out as Jeanette
• Crying with Laughter as Karen
• Up There as Margaret
• Recovery as Vicky Nathan
• Swede Caroline as Caroline
• Ill Manors as Carol

TV

• This Is England '86 as Cynth
• After Life as June
• Adolescence as Mrs Fenumore
• The Cleaner as Maggie
• Moving On as Natalie
• Not Safe for Work as Angela
• The Mimic as Jean
• The Jury as Ann Skailes
• Vera as Grace
• This Is England '90 as Cynth