Jenna Louise Bio - Biography

Name Jenna Louise
Height
Naionality English
Date of Birth 27-April-1986
Place of Birth Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Famous for Acting
Jenna Louise is an English actress, known for appearing in the British soap opera Emmerdale. She is due to portray the next companion to the Doctor in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who, and appeared in the series seven opener "Asylum of the Daleks" as Oswin Oswald. She is due to begin her role as companion Clara in the 2012 Christmas Special "The Snowmen".

Whilst auditioning for drama schools, Coleman landed the part of Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale in 2005. In 2007 Coleman was nominated for two awards. At the British Soap Awards she was nominated as "Best Newcomer", and at the National Television Awards she was nominated as "Most Popular Newcomer". At the 2009 British Soap Awards she was nominated in the "Best Actress", "Sexiest Female" and "Best Dramatic Performance" categories. Coleman received a nomination for "Best Actress" from the TV Choice Awards. In May 2009 it was announced that Coleman would be joining BBC drama Waterloo Road, as "hard girl" Lindsay James. As she was 23 at the time of her casting, Coleman found the experience of playing a schoolgirl again "surreal".

In 2011, she made her big screen debut in Captain America: The First Avenger and then landed the part of Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes' four part mini-series Titanic. Coleman described the character of Annie as a "cheeky little cockney" and the "Eliza Doolittle" of the ship. She provided the voice acting for the character Melia in the English dub of the 2011 video game, Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2012 she was cast as in Stephen Poliakoff's original drama series Dancing on the Edge.

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