
Jenna Coleman
Biography
Jenna-Louise Coleman, since 2013 credited as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2005–2009), Clara Oswald in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2012–2015, 2017), Queen Victoria in the ITV period drama Victoria (2016–2019), Joanna Lindsay in the crime miniseries The Cry (2018), and Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the crime miniseries The Serpent (2021). She landed the part of Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale in 2005 and, for it, she was nominated for the "Best Newcomer" award at British Soap Awards in 2007, and at the National Television Awards in 2006, she was nominated for the "Most Popular Newcomer" award. She received a nomination for the "Best Actress" award from the TV Choice Awards.
In 2011, she made her feature film debut in Captain America: The First Avenger. She played Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top in 2012. Also in 2012, she landed the part of Annie Desmond in a mini-series Titanic. She provided the voice for the character Melia in the English dub of the 2011 video game Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2012, she was cast as Rosie in Dancing on the Edge. She starred as Lydia Wickham in the adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley (2013).
She made a surprise appearance on Doctor Who in the first episode of the seventh series as Oswin Oswald, a guest character, but she debuted as a series regular in the Christmas special episode "The Snowmen" as Clara Oswin Oswald. She plays eleventh's and twelve's Doctor companion until 2015. In 2016, she starred in ITV's drama Victoria.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
All of You as Dee
2024Doctor Who at the Proms as Clara Oswald (archive footage)
2024The Jetty as Ember
2024Jackdaw as Bo
2023Wilderness as Liv Taylor
2023Klokkenluider as Flo
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022The Sandman as Johanna Constantine
2022The Sandman as Lady Johanna Constantine
2021Billion Pound Bond Street as Narrator
2021The Serpent as Marie-Andrée Leclerc
2020A Separate Peace as Self / Nurse Maggie Coates
2019Corporate Monster as Ellen
2019National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Ann Deever
2018The Cry as Joanna
2017Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time as Clara Oswald
2016Victoria as Queen Victoria
2016Me Before You as Katrina 'Treena' Clark
2015Doctor Who: Heaven Sent & Hell Bent as Clara
2015Thunderbirds Are Go! as Baines (voice)
2014Doctor Who: Last Christmas as Clara Oswald
2014Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven as Clara Oswald
2014Doctor Who Extra as Self
2014Doctor Who: Deep Breath as Clara Oswald
2014Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour as Self
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion as Self / Clara Oswald (archive footage)
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Inside No. 9 as Beattie
2013Death Comes to Pemberley as Lydia Wickham
2013Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor as Clara Oswald
2013Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as Clara Oswald
2013Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide as Self
2013Doctor Who Explained as Self
2013Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS as Clara Oswald
2013Doctor Who at the Proms as Self - Special Guest Appearance / Clara Oswald
2013Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
2013Doctor Who: She Said, He Said as Clara Oswald
2013Dancing on the Edge as Rosie Williams
2013Dancing on the Edge as Rosie
2013The Last Leg as Self
2012Doctor Who: The Snowmen as Clara Oswin Oswald
2012Room at the Top as Susan Brown
2012Titanic as Annie Desmond
2011Captain America: The First Avenger as Connie
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Waterloo Road as Lindsay James
2005Doctor Who as Clara Oswald
1978An Audience with... as Self
1972Emmerdale as Jasmine Thomas
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