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 crime miniseries The Serpent (2021). She landed the part of Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale in 2005 and, for it, she was nominated for the "Best Newcomer" award at British Soap Awards in 2007, and at the National Television Awards in 2006, she was nominated for the "Most Popular Newcomer" award. She received a nomination for the "Best Actress" award from the TV Choice Awards.
In 2011, she made her feature film debut in Captain America: The First Avenger. She played Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top in 2012. Also in 2012, she landed the part of Annie Desmond in a mini-series Titanic. She provided the voice for the character Melia in the English dub of the 2011 video game Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2012, she was cast as Rosie in Dancing on the Edge. She starred as Lydia Wickham in the adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley (2013).
She made a surprise appearance on Doctor Who in the first episode of the seventh series as Oswin Oswald, a guest character, but she debuted as a series regular in the Christmas special episode "The Snowmen" as Clara Oswin Oswald. She plays eleventh's and twelve's Doctor companion until 2015. In 2016, she starred in ITV's drama Victoria.
Known For
Doctor Who at the Proms
Clara Oswald (archive footage)
2024
All of You
2024
The Jetty
Ember · (4 episodes)
2024
Jackdaw
Bo
2024
Wilderness
Liv Taylor · (6 episodes)
2023
Klokkenluider
Flo
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
(1 episode)
2022
The Sandman
Johanna Constantine · (2 episodes)
2022
The Sandman
Lady Johanna Constantine · (1 episode)
2022
Billion Pound Bond Street
Narrator
2021
The Serpent
Marie-Andrée Leclerc · (8 episodes)
2021
A Separate Peace
Self / Nurse Maggie Coates
2020
Corporate Monster
Ellen
2019
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Ann Deever
2019
The Cry
Joanna · (4 episodes)
2018
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Clara Oswald
2017
Victoria
Queen Victoria · (24 episodes)
2016
Me Before You
Katrina 'Treena' Clark
2016
Doctor Who : Under the Lake / Before The Flood
Clara Oswald
2015
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Baines (voice) · (78 episodes)
2015
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
Clara Oswald
2014
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Clara Oswald
2014
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Clara Oswald
2014
Doctor Who Extra
Self · (12 episodes)
2014
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
Self
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Self / Clara Oswald (archive footage)
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Inside No. 9
Beattie · (1 episode)
2014
Death Comes to Pemberley
Lydia Wickham · (3 episodes)
2013
Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
2013
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Clara Oswald
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Self
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Clara Oswald
2013
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
Self
2013
Doctor Who Explained
Self
2013
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Clara Oswald
2013
Doctor Who at the Proms
Self - Special Guest Appearance / Clara Oswald
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Self
2013
Doctor Who: She Said, He Said
Clara Oswald
2013
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
Clara Oswin Oswald
2012
Control
Dancing on the Edge
Rosie Williams · (1 episode)
2013
Dancing on the Edge
Rosie · (4 episodes)
2013
The Last Leg
Self · (1 episode)
2013
Room at the Top
Susan Brown · (2 episodes)
2012
Titanic
Annie Desmond · (4 episodes)
2012
Captain America: The First Avenger
Connie
2011
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (1 episode)
2007
Waterloo Road
Lindsay James · (20 episodes)
2006
Doctor Who
Clara Oswald · (37 episodes)
2005
An Audience with...
Self · (1 episode)
1978
Emmerdale
Jasmine Thomas · (3446 episodes)
1972