Jenna Coleman

Jenna Coleman
Other names:	Jenna-Louise Coleman
Birth date:	27 April 1986
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Clara Oswald
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	see list
Main time period active:	2012-2015, 2017
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Emmerdale, Waterloo Road, Titanic, Dancing on the Edge, Death Comes to Pemberley, Me Before You, Victoria, The Cry, Inside No. 9
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Jenna Coleman (born 27 April 1986) — initially credited in Doctor Who as Jenna-Louise Coleman — played companion Clara Oswald in Doctor Who, also making a cameo in Twice Upon a Time. Coleman later appeared as Bonnie in the Doctor Who television story The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion and read 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.

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

In 2012, Coleman also introduced the prequel, The Great Detective, and the trailer for The Snowmen, for their broadcast during Children in Need.

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

Also in 2013, 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.

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

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 for an assumed late-summer/early fall broadcast in the UK. (Victoria co-stars Eve Myles 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.

Characters portrayed

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

• Clara Oswald (TV: The Snowmen to Hell Bent, Twice Upon a Time)
• Oswin Oswald (echo) (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
• Clara Oswin Oswald (echo) (TV: The Snowmen)
• TARDIS holographic interface (TV: Hide)
• Multiple Clara echoes (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
• Saibra (Clara impersonation) (TV: Time Heist)
• Bonnie (TV: The Zygon Invasion and 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. 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.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Asylum of the Daleks - Oswin
• The Snowmen - Clara Oswald

As Clara Oswald

• The Bells of Saint John
• The Rings of Akhaten
• Cold War
• Hide
• Journey to the Centre of the Tardis
• The Crimson Horror
• Nightmare in Silver
• The Name of the Doctor
• The Day of the Doctor
• The Time of the Doctor
• Deep Breath
• Into the Dalek
• Robot of Sherwood
• Listen
• Time Heist
• The Caretaker
• Kill the Moon
• Mummy on the Orient Express
• Flatline
• In the Forest of the Night
• Dark Water / Death in Heaven
• Last Christmas
• The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar
• Under the Lake / Before the Flood
• The Girl Who Died
• The Woman Who Lived
• The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion (also Bonnie)
• Sleep No More
• Face the Raven
• Heaven Sent / Hell Bent
• Twice Upon a Time

Mini-episodes

• Clara and the TARDIS
• She Said, He Said: A Prequel
• The History of the Doctor

Other

• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot - Herself

Audio

Destiny of the Doctors

• The Time Machine - Narrator

External links

• Jenna Coleman at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account

• Jenna Coleman at TriviaTribute.com