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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.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
as Anna Bates

Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
as Self

Fudge Sundae
as Gemma

MobLand
as Jan Da Souza

Breathtaking
as Dr. Abbey Henderson

North Shore
as Abigail Crawford

Women of Steel
as Narrator

Last Light
as Elena Yeats

Sherwood
as Sarah Vincent

Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Anna Bates

Angela Black
as Angela Black

The Commons
as Eadie Boulay

Downton Abbey
as Anna Bates

A Crooked Somebody
as Chelsea Mills

One Last Thing
as Jaime

Liar
as Laura Nielson

Mary Shelley
as Mary Jane Clairmont

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Wendy (voice)

A Street Cat Named Bob
as Val

Dark Angel
as Mary Ann Cotton

Starfish
as Nicola Ray

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole
as Narrator

Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self

Still Life
as Kelly Stoke

Filth
as Mary

uwantme2killhim?
as Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton

True Love
as Ruth

The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
as Saskia

Downton Abbey
as Anna Smith

In Our Name
as Suzy

Identity

Echoes
as Anya

Moving On
as Kelly

Spooks: Code 9
as Hannah

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
as Joanne Lees

Robin Hood
as Kate

The One Show
as Self

See No Evil: The Moors Murders
as Maureen Smith

Missing
as Sybil Foster

Life on Mars
as Ruth Tyler

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price

Island at War
as Angelique Mahy

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as Danielle Cable

The Last Detective
as Josie/Celia

The Last Detective
as Josie / Celia

Red Cap

The Stretford Wives
as Dawn Richards

Paradise Heights
as Julia Sawyer
Nice Guy Eddie

Miranda
as Jacquie

Lorna Doone
as Lizzie Ridd

Lorna Doone
as Lizzie Ridd
Other People's Children
as Becky

Rebus
as Gail Maitland

Nature Boy
as Jenny

Bad Girls
as Rachel Hicks

dinnerladies
as Sigourney

The Royle Family

The View
as Self - Guest