Joanne Froggatt

Acting · Born 1980-08-23 in 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…

Filmography

• Still Life as Kelly Stoke
• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Anna Bates
• A Street Cat Named Bob as Val
• Mary Shelley as Mary Jane Clairmont
• Downton Abbey as Anna Bates
• Downton Abbey: A New Era as Anna Bates
• In Our Name as Suzy
• Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback as Joanne Lees
• Filth as Mary
• Miranda as Jacquie

TV

• Life on Mars as Ruth Tyler
• Downton Abbey as Anna Smith
• MobLand as Jan Da Souza
• Island at War as Angelique Mahy
• A Touch of Frost as Anne
• The Royle Family
• Robin Hood as Kate
• North Shore as Abigail Crawford
• Rebus as Gail Maitland
• True Love as Ruth