Joanne Froggatt

Joanne Froggatt (lahir 23 Agustus 1980) adalah seorang aktris Inggris. Dari 2010 hingga 2015, ia memerankan Anna Bates dalam serial drama periode ITV Downton Abbey, di mana ia menerima tiga nominasi Emmy dan memenangkan Penghargaan Golden Globe 2014 untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik. Dari 2017 hingga 2020, ia berperan sebagai Laura Nielson dalam serial drama ITV/Sundance Liar. Froggatt menjadi terkenal dengan perannya sebagai Zoe Tattersall di sinetron Coronation Street (1997–1998). Dia berperan sebagai Ruth Tyler, ibu Sam Tyler dalam drama polisi fantasi Life on Mars (serial TV Inggris) (2006) versi asli Inggris. Dia kemudian membintangi film televisi Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003), See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006), dan Murder in the Outback (2007), sebelum memenangkan British Independent Film Award untuk Most Promising Newcomer untuk peran utamanya dalam In Our Name (2010). Kredit film lainnya termasuk Filth (2013), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Mary Shelley (2017), dan Downton Abbey (2019). Froggatt lahir dan dibesarkan di desa Littlebeck di Yorkshire Utara. Orang tuanya, Ann dan Keith Froggatt, yang menjalankan toko di pojokan, selanjutnya memulai peternakan domba ras langka di sebuah perkebunan kecil dekat Whitby. Froggatt menyamakan latar masa kecilnya dengan latar belakang novel klasik Wuthering Heights karya Emily Brontë. Froggatt awalnya bergabung dengan grup drama di Scarborough, dan kemudian meninggalkan rumah keluarganya pada usia 13 tahun untuk bersekolah di Sekolah Teater Redroofs di Maidenhead, Berkshire. Pada tahun 1996, Froggatt membuat debut TV-nya di drama ITV The Bill, dan tak lama kemudian mendapatkan peran sebagai ibu remaja Zoe Tattersall di Coronation Street. Dia meninggalkan program tersebut pada tahun 1998, ketika karakternya ditulis. Pada tahun 1999, ia muncul dalam empat episode pertama dari seri pertama drama penjara Bad Girls, memerankan ibu remaja Rachel Hicks. Pada tahun 2003, Froggatt memainkan peran utama dalam drama kontroversial Danielle Cable: Eyewitness, berdasarkan kisah nyata seorang gadis remaja yang menyaksikan pembunuhan pacarnya dalam serangan kemarahan di jalan raya. Saat meneliti peran tersebut, dia bertemu Cable, yang kemudian menghubunginya untuk memuji perannya. Film ini mendapatkan nominasi BAFTA TV Award untuk Drama Tunggal Terbaik. Pada tahun 2022, ia membintangi Last Light, serial TV thriller apokaliptik di Peacock.

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.