Jenna Coleman

**Jenna-Louise Coleman** (born 27 April 1986), is an English actress. She is best known for portraying the roles of Jasmine Thomas in the ITV soap opera _Emmerdale_ (2005–2009), Lindsay James in the BBC school-based drama series _Waterloo Road_ (2009), Clara Oswald in the BBC science fiction series _Doctor Who_ (2012–2015, 2017), and Queen Victoria in the ITV period drama series _Victoria_ (2016–present). She voiced Melia Antiqua in the video game _Xenoblade Chronicles_.

### Film

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2011|_Captain America: The First Avenger_|Connie|||||
|2016|_Me Before You_|Katrina "Treena" Clark|||||
|2022|_Klokkenluider_|Flo|||||
|2023|_Jackdaw_|Bo|||||
|2024|_All of You_|Robyn|||||
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### Television

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2005–2009|_Emmerdale_|Jasmine Thomas|Main role (180 episodes)||||
|2009|_Waterloo Road_|Lindsay James|Recurring role (9 episodes)||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|_Titanic_|Annie Desmond|Miniseries (4 episodes)|||
|_Room at the Top_|Susan Brown|Miniseries (2 episodes)|||||
|2012–2017|_Doctor Who_|Clara Oswald|Main role (38 episodes)||||
|rowspan="3"|2013|_Dancing on the Edge_|Rosie Williams|Miniseries (2 episodes)|||
|_The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot_|Jenna Coleman|Television film|||||
|_Death Comes to Pemberley_|Lydia Wickham|Miniseries (3 episodes)|||||
|2016|_Thunderbirds Are Go_|Baines (voice)|Episode: "Earthbreaker"||||
|2016–2019|_Victoria_|Queen Victoria|Main role (25 episodes)||||
|2018|_The Cry_|Joanna Lindsay|Miniseries (4 episodes)||||
|2020|_Inside No. 9_|Beattie|Episode: "Death Be Not Proud"||||
|rowspan="2"|2021|_The Serpent_|Marie-Andrée Leclerc|Miniseries (8 episodes)|||
|_Billion Pound Bond Street_|Narrator|Documentary|||||
|2022|_The Sandman_|Lady Johanna Constantine / Modern-day Johanna Constantine|Recurring role (3 episodes)||||
|2023|_Wilderness_|Liv Taylor|Main role (6 episodes)||||
|2024|_The Jetty_|Ember Manning|Main role, executive producer||||
||style="background:#FFFFCC;"|_The War Rooms_|Joan Bright Astley|Main role, executive producer; upcoming series|||

### Stage

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1996|_Summer Holiday_|Bridesmaid|||
|2004|_Crystal Clear_|Thomasina|In Yer Space||
|2009|_Jack and the Beanstalk_|Princess Apricot|Theatre Royal, Nottingham; pantomime||
|2019|_All My Sons_|Ann Deever|Old Vic Theatre; streamed via National Theatre Live||
|2020|_A Separate Peace_|Nurse Maggie Coates|Virtual play; broadcast online||
|2023|_Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons_|Bernadette|Harold Pinter Theatre Manchester Opera House Theatre Royal, Brighton||

### Video games

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2010|_Xenoblade Chronicles_|rowspan="2"|Princess Melia Antiqua|rowspan="2"|English dub|
|rowspan="2"|2015|_Xenoblade Chronicles 3D_||||
|_Lego Dimensions_|Clara Oswald|Main game and _Doctor Who_ expansion||||
|2020|_Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition_|Princess Melia Antiqua|English dub, includes new "Future Connected" epilogue|||
|2022|_Xenoblade Chronicles 3_|Queen of Keves / Melia Antiqua|English dub|||

### Audio

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2013|_The Secret Garden_|Narrator|Abridged reading; originally released on CD and later through Audible||
|_Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctor_|Alice Watson / Eleventh Doctor|Limited-cast dramatic reading. Episode: "The Time Machine" Originally released on CD and later digitally through Big Finish Productions||||
|2016|_A Christmas Carol_|Belle|Full cast audio drama; Audible digital release only|||
|rowspan="2"|2020|_Pressures, Residential_|rowspan="2"|Narrator|Short story posted online by Esquire Magazine; in aid of UNICEF UK|
|_Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales_ (2-CD set)|Short story: "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies"''|||||
|2024|_Iris is More Than Okay_|Iris Nightingale|Audible-exclusive original novella|||
|2024|_We All Live Here_|Narrator||||

### Advertisements

Coleman has provided narration for many TV, radio and online commercials, but this listing is only of ones in which she performs on screen:

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|Source(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2021|_Bags of Joy_|Joy|Boots Christmas advert|||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award|Category|Work|Result||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2006|National Television Awards|Most Popular Newcomer|rowspan="5"|_Emmerdale_|||
|rowspan="4"|The British Soap Awards|Best Newcomer||||||
|rowspan="3"|2009|Best Dramatic Performance||||||
|Sexiest Female||||||||
|Best Actress||||||||
|rowspan="6"|2013|rowspan="2"|Behind the Voice Actors Awards|Best Female Vocal Performance in a Video Game|rowspan="3"|_Xenoblade Chronicles_||
|Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game||||||||
|NAVGTR Awards|Supporting Performance in a Drama|||||||
|Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards|Favourite UK Actress|rowspan="4"|_Doctor Who_|||||
|_TV Choice_ Awards|Best Actress|||||||
|_TV Times_ Awards|Favourite Newcomer|||||||
|2014|_Glamour_ Awards|UK TV Actress||||||
|rowspan="3"|2015|BAFTA Cymru|Best Actress|_Doctor Who_: "Kill the Moon"||||
|Saturn Awards|Best Supporting Actress on Television|rowspan="2"|_Doctor Who_|||||
|TV Choice Awards|Best Actress|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2017|Golden Nymph Awards|Outstanding Actress in a Drama TV Series|rowspan="4"|_Victoria_|||
|National Television Awards|Best Drama Performance|||||||
|rowspan="4"|2018|Movieguide Awards|Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for TV|||||
|National Television Awards|Best Drama Performance|||||||
|_Harper's Bazaar_ Women of the Year Awards|TV Actress of the Year|rowspan="7"|_The Cry_|||||
|I Talk Telly Awards|Best Dramatic Performance|||||||
|rowspan="5"|2019|rowspan="2"|Logie Awards|Most Outstanding Actress||||
|Most Popular Actress||||||||
|BAFTA Scotland Awards|Best Actress in Television|||||||
|International Emmy Awards|Best Actress|||||||
|AACTA Awards|Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama|||||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Jenna Coleman
- **image**: SDCC 2015 - Jenna Coleman & Kathy Bates (19742521241) Cropped.jpg
- **caption**: Coleman in 2015
- **birth name**: Jenna-Louise Coleman
- **birth place**: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
- **occupation**: Actress
- **years active**: 1996, 2004–present
- **children**: 1