Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025 · Movie
as Anna Bates
Joanne Froggatt
1980-08-23
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Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Fudge Sundae
2025 · Movie
as Gemma
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
2025 · Movie
as Self
MobLand
2025 · TV Show
as Jan Da Souza
Breathtaking
2024 · TV Show
as Dr. Abbey Henderson
North Shore
2023 · TV Show
as Abigail Crawford
Women of Steel
2022 · Movie
as Narrator
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Movie
as Anna Bates
Last Light
2022 · TV Show
as Elena Yeats
Sherwood
2022 · TV Show
as Sarah Vincent
Angela Black
2021 · TV Show
as Angela Black
Downton Abbey
2019 · Movie
as Anna Bates
The Commons
2019 · TV Show
as Eadie Boulay
A Crooked Somebody
2018 · Movie
as Chelsea Mills
One Last Thing
2018 · Movie
as Jaime
Mary Shelley
2017 · Movie
as Mary Jane Clairmont
Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini
2017 · Movie
as Wendy (voice)
Liar
2017 · TV Show
as Laura Nielson
Bob the Builder: Building Sky High
2016 · Movie
A Street Cat Named Bob
2016 · Movie
as Val
Starfish
2016 · Movie
as Nicola Ray
Dark Angel
2016 · TV Show
as Mary Ann Cotton
Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole
2015 · Movie
as Narrator
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · TV Show
as Self
The Secrets
2014 · TV Show
as Lexie
Filth
2013 · Movie
as Mary
uwantme2killhim?
2013 · Movie
as Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton
Still Life
2013 · Movie
as Kelly Stoke
True Love
2012 · TV Show
as Ruth
In Our Name
2010 · Movie
as Suzy
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010 · Movie
as Saskia
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV Show
as Anna Smith
Identity
2010 · TV Show
Echoes
2009 · Movie
as Anya
Moving On
2009 · TV Show
as Kelly
Spooks: Code 9
2008 · TV Show
as Hannah
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
2007 · Movie
as Joanne Lees
Missing
2006 · Movie
as Sybil Foster
Life on Mars
2006 · TV Show
as Ruth Tyler
Robin Hood
2006 · TV Show
as Kate
Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
2006 · TV Show
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006 · TV Show
as Maureen Smith
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
as Self
Island at War
2004 · TV Show
as Angelique Mahy
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003 · Movie
as Danielle Cable
The Last Detective
2003 · Movie
as Josie/Celia
Red Cap
2003 · TV Show
The Last Detective
2003 · TV Show
as Josie / Celia
Miranda
2002 · Movie
as Jacquie
The Stretford Wives
2002 · Movie
as Dawn Richards
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Nice Guy Eddie
2002 · TV Show
Paradise Heights
2002 · TV Show
as Julia Sawyer
Lorna Doone
2001 · Movie
as Lizzie Ridd
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Other People's Children
2000 · TV Show
as Becky
Rebus
2000 · TV Show
as Gail Maitland
Lorna Doone
2000 · TV Show
as Lizzie Ridd
Nature Boy
2000 · TV Show
as Jenny
Bad Girls
1999 · TV Show
as Rachel Hicks
The Royle Family
1998 · TV Show
dinnerladies
1998 · TV Show
as Sigourney
The View
1997 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
A Touch of Frost
1992 · TV Show
as Anne
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Casualty
1986 · TV Show
as Lucy Curry
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The Magnificent Seven
· TV Show
as Harriet Talbot
