Jenna Coleman
Acting • Born 1986-04-27
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.
Filmography
55 credits
A Separate Peace
Movie • 2020
Self / Nurse Maggie Coates
Jackdaw
Movie • 2024
Bo
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who Explained
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
Movie • 2014
Self
Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
Movie • 2013
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Movie • 2014
Self
Billion Pound Bond Street
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2013
Self - Special Guest Appearance / Clara Oswald
Doctor Who: She Said, He Said
Movie • 2013
Clara Oswald
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
Movie • 2014
Clara Oswald
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
Clara Oswald
Me Before You
Movie • 2016
Katrina 'Treena' Clark
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
Clara Oswald
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
Movie • 2012
Clara Oswin Oswald
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Movie • 2014
Clara Oswald
Control
Movie
Captain America: The First Avenger
Movie • 2011
Connie
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Movie • 2014
Clara Oswald
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Movie • 2017
Clara Oswald
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Movie • 2013
Clara Oswald
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie • 2019
Ann Deever
Corporate Monster
Movie • 2019
Ellen
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Movie • 2014
Self / Clara Oswald (archive footage)
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2013
Self
Klokkenluider
Movie • 2023
Flo
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
Clara Oswald (archive footage)
All of You
Movie • 2025
Dee
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
Emmerdale
TV • 1972
Jasmine Thomas
Titanic
TV • 2012
Annie Desmond
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Clara Oswald
Death Comes to Pemberley
TV • 2013
Lydia Wickham
Room at the Top
TV • 2012
Susan Brown
Victoria
TV • 2016
Queen Victoria
The Jetty
TV • 2024
Ember
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Thunderbirds Are Go!
TV • 2015
Baines (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Doctor Who Extra
TV • 2014
Self
Wilderness
TV • 2023
Liv Taylor
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Cry
TV • 2018
Joanna
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Johanna Constantine
Dancing on the Edge
TV • 2013
Rosie Williams
Dancing on the Edge
TV • 2013
Rosie
The Serpent
TV • 2021
Marie-Andrée Leclerc
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Lady Johanna Constantine
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Beattie
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
The Last Leg
TV • 2013
Self
Waterloo Road
TV • 2006
Lindsay James
Number 10
TV