Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Froggatt (* 1979 in Little Beck, North Yorkshire ) is a British actress.
Life and career
At the age of 13 years, Joanne Froggatt attended a drama school in Maidenhead, Berkshire and was also a member of the "Rounders" youth theater group at Alan Ayckbourne 's Stephen Joseph Theatre.
Her acting debut Froggatt 1996 in the role of a teenage prostitute in the British television series The Bill. Apparently uncertain about an acting career, she began to work in a regular job in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Just at that moment, she was offered an audition for the British endless series Coronation Street. She auditioned and was accepted for the role of Zoe Tattersall. They occupied that role from May 1997 to December 1998. Since then, she had roles in television series such as Heartbeat, Dinner Ladies, Bad Girls and Nature Boy as well as in television films such as Lorna Doone (2000) and The Last Detective ( 2003). For the presentation of Anna in Downton Abbey she was nominated for an Emmy in 2012.