Joanne Froggatt
Born: 1980-08-23 in Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- MobLand as Jan Da Souza
- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Anna Bates
- Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale as Self
- Fudge Sundae as Gemma
2024
- Breathtaking as Dr. Abbey Henderson
2023
- North Shore as Abigail Crawford
2022
- Sherwood as Sarah Vincent
- Downton Abbey: A New Era as Anna Bates
- Last Light as Elena Yeats
- Women of Steel as Narrator
2021
- Angela Black as Angela Black
2019
- Downton Abbey as Anna Bates
- The Commons as Eadie Boulay
2018
- A Crooked Somebody as Chelsea Mills
- One Last Thing as Jaime
2017
- Liar as Laura Nielson
- Mary Shelley as Mary Jane Clairmont
- Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Wendy (voice)
2016
- A Street Cat Named Bob as Val
- Dark Angel as Mary Ann Cotton
- Starfish as Nicola Ray
- Bob the Builder: Building Sky High
2015
- Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole as Narrator
2014
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013
- Filth as Mary
- Still Life as Kelly Stoke
- uwantme2killhim? as Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton
2012
- True Love as Ruth
2010
- Downton Abbey as Anna Smith
- Identity
- The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers as Saskia
- In Our Name as Suzy
2008
- Spooks: Code 9 as Hannah
2007
- Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback as Joanne Lees
2006
- The One Show as Self
- Robin Hood as Kate
- Life on Mars as Ruth Tyler
- Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
- Missing as Sybil Foster
- See No Evil: The Moors Murders as Maureen Smith
2004
- Island at War as Angelique Mahy
2003
- The Last Detective as Josie / Celia
- Red Cap
- Danielle Cable: Eyewitness as Danielle Cable
- The Last Detective as Josie/Celia
2002
- Paradise Heights as Julia Sawyer
- Miranda as Jacquie
- Nice Guy Eddie
- The Stretford Wives as Dawn Richards
2001
- Lorna Doone as Lizzie Ridd
2000
- Rebus as Gail Maitland
- Lorna Doone as Lizzie Ridd
- Nature Boy as Jenny
- Other People's Children as Becky
1999
- Bad Girls as Rachel Hicks
1998
- The Royle Family
- dinnerladies as Sigourney
1997
- The View as Self - Guest
1992
- A Touch of Frost as Anne
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1986
- Casualty as Lucy Curry