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| aka            = Jenna-Louise Coleman  
|image          = Jenna-Coleman.jpg
| role          = [[Clara Oswald]]
|aka            = Jenna-Louise Coleman  
| job title      = Actress
|birth date    = [[27 April (people)|27 April]] [[1986 (people)|1986]]
| story          = '''''[[Clara Oswald - list of appearances|see list]]'''''
|role          = [[Clara Oswald]]
| time          = 2012 - 2015
|job title      = Actor
| non dwu        = {{il|{{wi|Emmerdale}}|{{wi|Waterloo Road}}|{{wi|Captain America: The First Avenger}}|{{wi|Titanic (miniseries)|Titanic}}|{{wi|Xenoblade Chronicles}}}}
|story          = [[#Credits|'''''see list''''']]
| imdb          = 1982510
|time          = 2012-2015, 2017
| official site  =  
|non dwu        = ''[[Emmerdale]]'', ''Waterloo Road'', ''Titanic'', ''Dancing on the Edge'', ''Death Comes to Pemberley'', ''Me Before You'', ''Victoria'', ''The Cry'', ''Inside No. 9'', ''The Sandman''
| twitter        = @Jenna_Coleman_
|imdb          = 1982510
| clip          = Jenna-Louise Coleman Becoming the Companion - Doctor Who - BBC One
|official site  =  
| clip2          = Doctor Who's Jenna-Louise Coleman on the Nerdist Podcast - Excerpt The Nerdist on BBC America
|twitter        = Jenna_Coleman_
|name = Jenna Coleman}}'''Jenna-Louise Coleman''' (born 27 April 1986), known as '''Jenna Coleman''', is an English actress. Her notable roles are Clara Oswald in the British television series ''Doctor Who'' and Jasmine Thomas in the British soap opera ''Emmerdale''.
|clip          = Jenna-Louise Coleman Becoming the Companion - Doctor Who - BBC One
== Acting Career ==
|clip2          = Doctor Who's Jenna-Louise Coleman on the Nerdist Podcast - Excerpt The Nerdist on BBC America
Whilst auditioning for drama schools, Coleman landed the part of Jasmine Thomas in ''Emmerdale'' in 2005. At the 2007 British Soap Awards, she was nominated for the Best Newcomer award, and at the 2006 National Television Awards, she was nominated for the Most Popular Newcomer award. At the 2009 British Soap Awards, she was nominated for the Best Actress, Sexiest Female, and Best Dramatic Performance awards. She received a nomination for the Best Actress award from the TV Choice Awards. In May 2009, it was announced that Coleman would be joining BBC drama series ''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 "surreal".
|clip3          = Jenna Looks Back "The Best Part Of My Life" - Doctor Who Series 9
In December 2010, it was announced that Coleman would be playing Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel ''Room at the Top''. The adaptation was originally intended to air in April 2011, but this was cancelled due to a rights dispute between the production company and Braine's estate. The dispute was resolved by 2012, and the show aired in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012. In 2011, she made her feature film debut in ''Captain America: The First Avenger''. She also landed the part of Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes' four part mini-series ''Titanic'', describing her character as a "cheeky little Cockney" and "the Eliza Doolittle of the ship".
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'''Jenna Coleman''' (born [[27 April (people)|27 April]] [[1986 (people)|1986]]<ref>[[DWDVDF 135]]</ref><ref>[[REF]]: ''[[Who-ology: The Official Miscellany]]''</ref>) — initially credited in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' as '''Jenna-Louise Coleman''' — played [[companion]] [[Clara Oswald]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.


Coleman provided the voice for the character Melia in the English dub of the 2011 video game ''Xenoblade Chronicles''. In 2012, Coleman was cast as Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff's original drama series ''Dancing on the Edge'', which follows the fortunes of a black jazz band in the 1930s. The show aired on BBC Two in February 2013.
During her time as Clara, she also played [[Bonnie (The Zygon Invasion)|Bonnie]] in the ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'' / ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', and read the [[AudioGO]] audio story ''[[The Time Machine (audio story)|The Time Machine]]'' with [[Michael Cochrane]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]].


She starred as Lydia Wickham in the adaptation of ''Death Comes to Pemberley''. The three episodes were shown on BBC One during Christmas 2013.
Prior to landing the role on ''Doctor Who'', Coleman was perhaps best known for portraying Jasmine Thomas in ''[[Emmerdale]]'' and had also appeared in {{wi|Waterloo Road}} as Lindsay James, the Marvel feature film {{wi|Captain America: The First Avenger}} as Connie and the 2012 miniseries {{wi|Titanic (2012 TV series)|Titanic}} as Annie Desmond.


=== Doctor Who ===
== Biography ==
On 21 March 2012, ''Doctor Who'' producer Steven Moffat confirmed at a press conference that Coleman would play the companion of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). Moffat chose her for the role because she worked the best alongside Smith and could talk faster than him. She auditioned for the role in secrecy, pretending it was for something called ''Men on Waves'' (an anagram for "Woman Seven", as she would first appear in the show's seventh series).
Coleman was born in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]]. (Incidentally, Blackpool is also the hometown of her character, the modern [[Clara Oswald]], as revealed in [[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]''.)


Although originally announced as beginning her run as companion in the Christmas special in 2012, Coleman made a surprise appearance on 1 September 2012 in the first episode of the seventh series, playing Oswin Oswald, who dies at the end of the episode. She subsequently debuted as a series regular in the Christmas special episode "The Snowmen", playing the Victorian governess and barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald; like her previous incarnation, the character dies. At the end of that episode, Coleman is seen playing a third version of the character, this time from contemporary London and named simply Clara Oswald. The Doctor finds the third version of her, and from the episode "The Bells of Saint John", this version begins her travels as the Doctor's regular companion, including after his regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, in the 2013 Christmas special episode "The Time of the Doctor." In the 2014 Christmas special episode "Last Christmas", it was revealed that Coleman would remain in the role of Clara for Series 9.
=== Work on the series ===
In 2012, Coleman introduced the prequel ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'', and the trailer for ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', for their broadcast during [[Children in Need]], ahead of her official introduction to the series.


However, the ninth series will be her last, as Coleman has decided to leave the show to take on a role as Queen Victoria in an ITV production.
In June 2013, Coleman announced that she was shortening her professional name to Jenna Coleman, and was credited as such beginning with ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''.<ref>http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-06-20/doctor-who-jenna-coleman-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-louise</ref> (She does not actually receive screen credit for the minisode ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'', which was released after the announcement.)


== Personal life ==
Later that same year, she appeared as herself in ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'', and also co-starred in the three-part BBC miniseries ''Death Comes to Pemberley'', which began the day after the broadcast of ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''.
Coleman was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, the daughter of Karen and Keith Coleman. She has an older brother named Ben. She attended Arnold School, where she was head girl. She has said that she regrets not having a conventional university experience. While at school, Coleman was a member of the theatre company In Yer Space, with which she performed in the play Crystal Clear at the Edinburgh Festival. She won an award for her performance, and the play was also received favourably.


She has been in a relationship with Richard Madden since at least early 2012.
According to [[Steven Moffat]], Coleman had intended to leave ''Doctor Who'' after [[series 8 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 8]], and agreed to one additional story, ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', which would depict her character's death. During [[principal photography|filming]], she decided she was not ready to leave the programme yet, so Moffat wrote an alternate ending, allowing [[Clara Oswald]] to return for [[series 9 (Doctor Who 2005)|one last series]].<ref>[[:File:The Steven Moffat Interview- Part 3 - Doctor Who- The Fan Show - Doctor Who|The Steven Moffat Interview: Part 3 {{!}} Doctor Who: The Fan Show {{!}} Doctor Who]]</ref>
Coleman has been involved with charity work in South Africa raising awareness of HIV with One To One Children's Fund, of whom she is the ambassador.
== Filmography ==


=== Television ===
By the [[Hell Bent (TV story)|end of series 9]], Coleman had become the longest-serving [[companion]] actor of the revival era, surpassing [[Karen Gillan]] by several episodes.
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!Year
=== Beyond ''Doctor Who'' ===
!Title
After filming her final scenes for ''Doctor Who'' in late August 2015, Coleman took on the lead role of Queen Victoria in the ITV series ''Victoria'', which began filming in the fall of 2015. During a break in filming [[Series 9 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 9]], she shot a supporting role in the romantic drama ''Me Before You'', released in 2016. She also recorded a guest voice for an episode of the second series of the animated sci-fi programme ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' that aired in October 2016. ''Victoria'' began airing in August 2016 in the UK and was swiftly renewed for a second series and a Christmas special, production of which began in February 2017 and later broadcast in both the UK and North America. A third season followed in 2019. As of 2022 there are no immediate plans for a fourth series, though Coleman and others involved have been adamant the series is on hiatus, not cancelled, though Coleman has acknowledged the role may be recast with an older actress at some point. ''Victoria'' co-stars [[Eve Myles]], [[Ferdinand Kingsley]], and [[Tommy Knight]]).
!Role
!Notes


|2005–09
In 2018 she starred in the Australian drama ''The Cry''. Her performance won her a Most Outstanding Actress Logie Award, a most prestigious Australian acting award. This was followed in the spring of 2019 by her West End debut in the play ''All My Sons'' co-starring [[Colin Morgan]]. In the fall of 2019 it was announced that she would be co-starring in the serial killer drama ''The Serpent''. Around this same time, a short horror film she appeared in prior to joining ''Doctor Who'', ''Corporate Monster'', was given a belated release on YouTube.
|''Emmerdale''
|Jasmine Thomas
|168 episodes


|-
In early 2020, a guest appearance on the [[Reece Shearsmith]] co-created series ''Inside No. 9'' aired.
|2009
|''Waterloo Road''
|Lindsay James
|9 episodes


|-
The COVID-19 pandemic suspended production of ''The Serpent'' for a number of months in 2020. During this downtime, Coleman took part in an online production (conducted from the actors' homes via Zoom) of the play ''A Separate Peace'' in which she co-starred with [[David Morrissey]]. Her reading of a Beatrix Potter short story was also released in 2020 as part of a set of CDs that also included readings by [[David Tennant]], [[Olivia Colman]], [[Pearl Mackie]], [[David Harewood]], [[Mandip Gill]], [[Hugh Bonneville]], [[Joanna Lumley]] and others.
|2012
|''Titanic''
|Annie Desmond
|4 episodes


|-
Production of ''The Serpent'' resumed in the summer of 2020 and it was broadcast first on BBC One in January 2021, followed by worldwide release on Netflix. Another Who alumnus in the cast was [[Tim McInnerny]].
|2012
|''Room at the Top''
|Susan Brown
|2 episodes


|-
In the first season of the 2022 Netflix series adaptation of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''The Sandman'', Coleman plays two versions of the character Johanna Constantine, appearing in three episodes. Coleman filmed her roles in late 2020-early 2021, sharing scenes with [[Clare Higgins]], [[Meera Syal]] and Ferdinand Kingsley (other Doctor Who alumni appeared in other episodes).
|2012–15
|''Doctor Who''
|Clara Oswald
|Series 7, 2013 specials, Series 8, Series 9


|-
She also filmed a role in the comedy film ''Klokkenluider'' in early 2021, which made its film-festival debut in the fall of 2022 with a wider release expected in 2023; and it was announced in the spring of 2021 that she would produce and star in a TV series titled ''The War Rooms'', though production of the series had yet to commence as of the spring of 2023. In the late spring of 2022, Coleman began filming a role for an Amazon Prime thriller series titled ''Wilderness'', which is expected to be broadcast in 2023. In late 2022, she filmed a role in a thriller film titled ''Jackdaw'' (another 2023-anticipated release) and spent the early months of 2023 starring in a touring stage play in England. A second series of ''The Sandman'' was announced in late 2022 but as of spring 2023 she has yet to be confirmed as returning as Johanna Constantine.
|2013
|''Dancing on the Edge''
|Rosie Williams
|5 episodes


|-
== Characters portrayed ==
|2013
During her three seasons on ''Doctor Who'', Coleman portrayed multiple characters, some with substantial roles in stories, some briefly:
|''Doctor Who Prom''
* [[Clara Oswald]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'' to ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
|Clara Oswald / Herself
* [[Oswin Oswald]] ([[Clara Oswald splinter|echo]]) ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
|Coleman played Clara in an in-character skit performed on film as well as live on stage.
* [[Clara Oswin Oswald]] (echo) ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
* [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS holographic interface]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
* Multiple Clara echoes ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
* [[Saibra]] (Clara impersonation) ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'')
* [[Bonnie (The Zygon Invasion)|Bonnie]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'' and ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')


|-
In addition, Coleman played multiple versions of Clara Oswald from different points in her timestream in the mini-episode [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]''. She also played an elderly version of Clara in [[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]''. Her 2013 audiobook, [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Machine (audio story)|The Time Machine]]'' does not feature Clara; instead, she voices a one-off companion named [[Alice Watson]] as well as the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
|2013
|''Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide''
|Clara Oswald / Herself
|Celebration of ''Doctor Who'' bookended by in-character segments


|-
As such, it can be claimed that Coleman has played more different named characters in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise than any other performer to date.
|2013
|''The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot''
|Herself
|Comedy spoof of ''Doctor Who'', released on the BBC Red Button


|-
==In-universe==
|2013
A fictional in-universe version of [[Jenna Coleman (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Jenna Coleman]], also an actress, is referenced in the comic story [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]''.
|''Death Comes to Pemberley''<sup>[27]</sup>
|Lydia Wickham
|3 episodes


|-
== Credits ==
|2016
=== Television ===
|''Victoria''<sup>[28]</sup>
==== ''Doctor Who'' ====
|Queen Victoria
* ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'' - [[Oswin Oswald]]
|8 episodes
* ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'' - [[Clara Oswin Oswald]] / [[Clara Oswald]]
 
|}
 
=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter"
 
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
 
|2011
|''Captain America: The First Avenger''
|Connie
|<br>
 
|-
|2012
|''Imaginary Forces''
|Ellen
|Short film
 
|-
|2016
|''Me Before You''
|Katrina Clark
|<br>
 
|}
 
=== Video games ===
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!Year
As [[Clara Oswald]]
!Title
* ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]''
!Role
* ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]''
!Notes
* ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]''
* ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]''
* ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the Tardis]]''
* ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]''
* ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]''
* ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'' (as well as [[Clara Oswald splinter|Clara splinters]])
* ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''
* ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''
* ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]''
* ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]''
* ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]''
* ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]''
* ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'' (as well as [[Saibra]])
* ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]''
* ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]''
* ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]''
* ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]''
* ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]''
* ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'' / ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''
* ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]''
* ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'' / ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]''
* ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'' / ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]''
* ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]''
* ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]''
* ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'' / ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'' (as well as [[Bonnie (The Zygon Invasion)|Bonnie]])
* ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]''
* ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]''
* ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'' / ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]''
* ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''


|2010
==== Mini-episodes ====
|''Xenoblade Chronicles''
* ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]''
|Princess Melia Antiqua
* ''[[She Said, He Said: A Prequel (webcast)|She Said, He Said: A Prequel]]''
|English dub of Japanese game
* ''[[The History of the Doctor (TV story)|The History of the Doctor]]''


|-
==== Other ====
|2015
* ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'' - Herself
|''Lego Dimensions''
* ''[[Songtaran Carols  (webcast)]]'' - Herself
|Clara Oswald
|<br>


|}
=== Audio ===
{{reflist|1}}
==== Destiny of the Doctors ====
* ''[[The Time Machine (audio story)|The Time Machine]]'' - Narrator


== External links ==
== External links ==
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{{twitter|Jenna_Coleman_}}
{{NameSort}}
{{NameSort}}
{{TV cast stub}}
* [http://www.triviatribute.com/jennacoleman.html Jenna Coleman at TriviaTribute.com]
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}


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Jenna Coleman (born 27 April 1986[1][2]) — initially credited in Doctor Who as Jenna-Louise Coleman — played companion Clara Oswald in Doctor Who.

During her time as Clara, she also played Bonnie in the Doctor Who television story The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion, and read the AudioGO audio story The Time Machine with Michael Cochrane and Nicholas Briggs.

Prior to landing the role on Doctor Who, Coleman was perhaps best known for portraying Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale and had also appeared in Waterloo Road as Lindsay James, the Marvel feature film Captain America: The First Avenger as Connie and the 2012 miniseries Titanic as Annie Desmond.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Coleman was born in Blackpool, Lancashire. (Incidentally, Blackpool is also the hometown of her character, the modern Clara Oswald, as revealed in TV: Robot of Sherwood.)

Work on the series[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 2012, Coleman introduced the prequel The Great Detective, and the trailer for The Snowmen, for their broadcast during Children in Need, ahead of her official introduction to the series.

In June 2013, Coleman announced that she was shortening her professional name to Jenna Coleman, and was credited as such beginning with The Day of the Doctor.[3] (She does not actually receive screen credit for the minisode Clara and the TARDIS, which was released after the announcement.)

Later that same year, she appeared as herself in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and also co-starred in the three-part BBC miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley, which began the day after the broadcast of The Time of the Doctor.

According to Steven Moffat, Coleman had intended to leave Doctor Who after series 8, and agreed to one additional story, Last Christmas, which would depict her character's death. During filming, she decided she was not ready to leave the programme yet, so Moffat wrote an alternate ending, allowing Clara Oswald to return for one last series.[4]

By the end of series 9, Coleman had become the longest-serving companion actor of the revival era, surpassing Karen Gillan by several episodes.

Beyond Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

After filming her final scenes for Doctor Who in late August 2015, Coleman took on the lead role of Queen Victoria in the ITV series Victoria, which began filming in the fall of 2015. During a break in filming series 9, she shot a supporting role in the romantic drama Me Before You, released in 2016. She also recorded a guest voice for an episode of the second series of the animated sci-fi programme Thunderbirds Are Go that aired in October 2016. Victoria began airing in August 2016 in the UK and was swiftly renewed for a second series and a Christmas special, production of which began in February 2017 and later broadcast in both the UK and North America. A third season followed in 2019. As of 2022 there are no immediate plans for a fourth series, though Coleman and others involved have been adamant the series is on hiatus, not cancelled, though Coleman has acknowledged the role may be recast with an older actress at some point. Victoria co-stars Eve Myles, Ferdinand Kingsley, and Tommy Knight).

In 2018 she starred in the Australian drama The Cry. Her performance won her a Most Outstanding Actress Logie Award, a most prestigious Australian acting award. This was followed in the spring of 2019 by her West End debut in the play All My Sons co-starring Colin Morgan. In the fall of 2019 it was announced that she would be co-starring in the serial killer drama The Serpent. Around this same time, a short horror film she appeared in prior to joining Doctor Who, Corporate Monster, was given a belated release on YouTube.

In early 2020, a guest appearance on the Reece Shearsmith co-created series Inside No. 9 aired.

The COVID-19 pandemic suspended production of The Serpent for a number of months in 2020. During this downtime, Coleman took part in an online production (conducted from the actors' homes via Zoom) of the play A Separate Peace in which she co-starred with David Morrissey. Her reading of a Beatrix Potter short story was also released in 2020 as part of a set of CDs that also included readings by David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Pearl Mackie, David Harewood, Mandip Gill, Hugh Bonneville, Joanna Lumley and others.

Production of The Serpent resumed in the summer of 2020 and it was broadcast first on BBC One in January 2021, followed by worldwide release on Netflix. Another Who alumnus in the cast was Tim McInnerny.

In the first season of the 2022 Netflix series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Coleman plays two versions of the character Johanna Constantine, appearing in three episodes. Coleman filmed her roles in late 2020-early 2021, sharing scenes with Clare Higgins, Meera Syal and Ferdinand Kingsley (other Doctor Who alumni appeared in other episodes).

She also filmed a role in the comedy film Klokkenluider in early 2021, which made its film-festival debut in the fall of 2022 with a wider release expected in 2023; and it was announced in the spring of 2021 that she would produce and star in a TV series titled The War Rooms, though production of the series had yet to commence as of the spring of 2023. In the late spring of 2022, Coleman began filming a role for an Amazon Prime thriller series titled Wilderness, which is expected to be broadcast in 2023. In late 2022, she filmed a role in a thriller film titled Jackdaw (another 2023-anticipated release) and spent the early months of 2023 starring in a touring stage play in England. A second series of The Sandman was announced in late 2022 but as of spring 2023 she has yet to be confirmed as returning as Johanna Constantine.

Characters portrayed[[edit] | [edit source]]

During her three seasons on Doctor Who, Coleman portrayed multiple characters, some with substantial roles in stories, some briefly:

In addition, Coleman played multiple versions of Clara Oswald from different points in her timestream in the mini-episode HOMEVID: Clara and the TARDIS. She also played an elderly version of Clara in TV: Last Christmas. Her 2013 audiobook, AUDIO: The Time Machine does not feature Clara; instead, she voices a one-off companion named Alice Watson as well as the Eleventh Doctor.

As such, it can be claimed that Coleman has played more different named characters in the Doctor Who franchise than any other performer to date.

In-universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

A fictional in-universe version of Jenna Coleman, also an actress, is referenced in the comic story COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who.

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Clara Oswald

Mini-episodes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Destiny of the Doctors[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ DWDVDF 135
  2. ↑ REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany
  3. ↑ http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-06-20/doctor-who-jenna-coleman-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-louise
  4. ↑ The Steven Moffat Interview: Part 3 | Doctor Who: The Fan Show | Doctor Who
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