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| |image = Jenna-Coleman.jpg
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| |aka = Jenna-Louise Coleman
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| |birth date = [[27 April (people)|27 April]] [[1986 (people)|1986]]
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| |role = [[Clara Oswald]]
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| |job title = Actor
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| |story = [[Clara Oswald - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
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| |time = 2012-2015, 2017
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| |non dwu = {{il|{{wi|Emmerdale}}|{{wi|Waterloo Road}}|{{wi|Captain America: The First Avenger}}|{{wi|Titanic (miniseries)|Titanic}}|{{wi|Xenoblade Chronicles}}}}
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| |imdb = 1982510
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| |twitter = Jenna_Coleman_
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| |clip = Jenna-Louise Coleman Becoming the Companion - Doctor Who - BBC One
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| |clip2 = Doctor Who's Jenna-Louise Coleman on the Nerdist Podcast - Excerpt The Nerdist on BBC America
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| |clip3 = Jenna Looks Back "The Best Part Of My Life" - Doctor Who Series 9
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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'', also making a cameo in the [[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|2017 Christmas special]]. Coleman later appeared as [[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 [[AudioGO]] audio story ''[[The Time Machine (audio story)|The Time Machine]]'' with [[Michael Cochrane]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]].
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| Prior to landing the role on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Coleman was perhaps best known for portraying Jasmine Thomas in {{wi|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 (miniseries)|Titanic}} as Annie Desmond.
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| Coleman was born in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]]. Incidentally, Blackpool is also the home town of her character, the modern [[Clara Oswald]], as revealed in ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]''.
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| In 2012, Coleman also 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]].
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| 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 (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.)
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| 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 (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''.
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| By the end of Series 9, Coleman had become the longest-serving companion actress of the revival era, surpassing [[Karen Gillan]] by several episodes. Her final episode to date was [[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]''.
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| 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)|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]]).
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