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Also known as Jenna-Louise Coleman, Jenna Louise Coleman

British actress

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Jenna Louise Coleman is a British actress born on April 27, 1986, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. She works as a film, television, and stage actor. Her career began in 2005, and she is a citizen of the United Kingdom who speaks English.

In addition to her acting career, Coleman is credited as an author with eight works. These include *Celestia*, *Bible Verse Mapping*, *Graceful by Design's Complete Homeschool Planner*, and *Bible Verse Mapping Journal For Teens*. She has also been referenced in 243 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Celestia
  • Bible Verse Mapping
  • Graceful by Design's Complete Homeschool Planner
  • Bible Verse Mapping Journal
  • Bible Verse Mapping Journal For Teens

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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…

Known for

  • All of You — Dee2025
  • Jackdaw — Bo2024
  • Doctor Who at the Proms — Clara Oswald (archive footage)2024
  • The Jetty — Ember2024
  • Klokkenluider — Flo2023
  • Wilderness — Liv Taylor2023
  • The Sandman — Johanna Constantine2022
  • The Sandman — Lady Johanna Constantine2022
  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022
  • Billion Pound Bond Street — Narrator2021

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
England
Active from
1986

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15
Total plays
111

Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986), known professionally as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale, Clara Oswald in the science fiction series Doctor Who, Queen Victoria in the period drama Victoria, Joanna Lindsay in the crime miniseries The Cry, and Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the crime miniseries The Serpent. She has also had roles in several films, including Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and Me Before You

via Last.fm · Jenna Coleman

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

    · 1988 · cited 20,854x

  2. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

    · 2017 · cited 16,275x

  3. Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

    · 2012 · cited 15,514x

  4. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

    · 2015 · cited 10,977x

  5. QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis

    · 2017 · cited 8,286x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Jenna-Louise Coleman , ( 1986-04-27 ) 27 April 1986 (age 40) , Blackpool , Lancashire , England
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1996–present
Partners
Richard Madden (2011–2015) Tom Hughes (2016–2020) Jamie Childs (2020–present)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986) is an English actress, whose roles include Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale (2005–2009), Clara Oswald in Doctor Who (2012–2015, 2017) and Queen Victoria in Victoria (2016–2019). She has received accolades including nominations for an International Emmy Award, as well as for the BAFTA Cymru and BAFTA Scotland Awards.

She made her film debut with a small role in the American superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and made appearances on diverse British period miniseries, including Titanic (2012) and Death Comes to Pemberley (2013). Coleman led the crime miniseries The Cry (2018), The Serpent (2021) and The Jetty (2024). She portrayed Johanna Constantine in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Sandman (2022–2025). Coleman's other film appearances include Neil Maskell's dark comedy Klokkenluider (2022), and Jamie Childs' thriller Jackdaw (2023).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jenna Coleman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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