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Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
27 April
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageJenna Coleman
Biography
Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986) is an English actress. She began her television career by playing Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2009, followed by a recurring role in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2009).
She made her film debut with a small role in the American superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and made appearances in diverse British period miniseries, including Titanic (2012), and Death Comes to Pemberley (2013).
Coleman's breakthrough came with the role of Clara Oswald, companion to the Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, in BBC One's science-fiction series Doctor Who. She appeared a regular character between 2012 and 2015, with a small cameo in 2017. She next starred as Queen Victoria in the period drama Victoria (2016–2019) and led the crime miniseries The Cry (2018) and The Serpent (2021).
In 2022, she portrayed Johanna Constantine in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Sandman. Coleman's other film appearances include Neil Maskell's dark comedy Klokkenluider (2022), and Jamie Childs' thriller Jackdaw (2023).
