Joanne Froggatt is an English actress of stage, television, and film, most notably appearing
in Downton Abbey as Anna, Lady's Maid to Lady Mary Crawley.
She earlier had a regular role in Coronation Street and has also appeared in many other
television dramas including Bad Girls, dinnerladies, Nature Boy, Red Cap, A Touch of Frost, Other
People's Children, The Street, Rebus, Island at War and Life on Mars.
For her role as Anna on Downton Abbey, Froggatt has been nominated twice for the Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, in 2012 and 2014.
Early life and education Froggatt was born and brought up in the village
of Littlebeck.
Her parents, having run a corner shop, next started a rare breed sheep farm on a smallholding
near Whitby.
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.
Career 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 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.
Whilst 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.
Froggatt starred as a main character in the drama Missing, made by SMG Productions in
2006 alongside Gregor Fisher.
However, the two-part thriller wasn't broadcast on STV until November 2008.
Also in 2006, Froggatt played the sister of Myra Hindley in the ITV drama, See No Evil:
The Moors Murders, and recently appeared in another controversial role as the title character
in Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, which first aired on Channel Ten in Australia on
18 March 2007, and was screened in Britain on ITV on 8 April 2007.
She also appeared on the London stage in the adaptation of All About My Mother in the part
of Sister Rosa, which ran from July to November 2007 at the Old Vic Theatre.
Froggatt portrayed Kate, a peasant, in the third season of the BBC TV series Robin Hood.
She played Hannah, in Spooks: Code 9, and features in the BBC Radio adaptation of Solaris
as Rheya.
In May 2009, she played Kelly on BBC drama Moving On.
On 25 September 2009, Froggatt played the title role in the BBC Radio Four play I am
Emma Humphreys.
On 3 October of that year, Froggatt played Princess Yvonne in the BBC Radio Four Saturday
play The Von Trapps and Me.
On 15 April 2010, Froggatt appeared opposite Lee Ingleby in the BBC Radio Four play The
Disappearance by Peter Whalley.
In her film début, In Our Name, Froggatt played Suzy, a soldier suffering from post-traumatic
stress disorder.
She garnered critical acclaim for her performance and won Best Newcomer at the British Independent
Film Awards.
Since 2010, Froggatt has appeared in Downton Abbey as Anna, Lady's Maid to Lady Mary Crawley,
for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2012 and 2014.
On 25 December 2010, Froggatt appeared in the Royle Family Christmas special 'Joe's
Crackers' as Saskia, the girlfriend of Antony Royle.
Despite having been mentioned by name in earlier episodes, this was the first time that Saskia
had appeared in person.
Froggatt starred in John Donnelly's play The Knowledge at the Bush Theatre, West London
from 12 January to 19 February 2011.
Along with Downton Abbey in 2013, Froggatt also had roles in the comedy drama based on
Irvine Welsh's novel, Filth, in the thriller uwantme2killhim?
and the indie directed by Uberto Pasolini, Still Life.
Personal life Froggatt married long-time boyfriend James
Cannon in a private ceremony in October 2012.
The couple live in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Charity In 2013, Froggatt became an ambassador for
global children's charity Plan UK's 'Because I am a Girl' campaign.
In 2015, she played Wendy in the new Bob the Builder series in 2015.
Filmography Audio Drama
Film Television
References
External links Joanne Froggatt at the Internet Movie Database