Joanne Froggatt is a British actress. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Anna Bates in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey, for which she received three Emmy nominations and won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2017 to 2020, she starred as Laura Nielson in the ITV/Sundance drama series Liar.
Froggatt rose to prominence with her portrayal of Zoe Tattersall on the soap opera Coronation Street (1997–1998). She played Ruth Tyler, Sam Tyler's mother in original UK version of the fantasy police drama Life on Mars (British TV series) (2006). She went on to star in the television films Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003), See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006), and Murder in the Outback (2007), before winning the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her leading role in In Our Name (2010). Other film credits include Filth (2013), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Mary Shelley (2017), and Downton Abbey (2019).
Froggatt was born and brought up in the village of Littlebeck in North Yorkshire. Her parents, Ann and Keith Froggatt, having run a corner shop, next started a rare-breed sheep farm on a smallholding near Whitby. Froggatt has likened her childhood setting to the backdrop of Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights. Froggatt initially joined a drama group in Scarborough, and then left her family home at the age of 13 to attend the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
In 1996, Froggatt made her TV debut in the long-running ITV drama The Bill, and shortly afterwards landed the role of teenage mother Zoe Tattersall in Coronation Street. She left the programme in 1998, when her character was written out. In 1999, she appeared in the first four episodes of the first series of prison drama Bad Girls, portraying teenage mother Rachel Hicks.
In 2003, Froggatt played the leading role in the controversial one-off drama Danielle Cable: Eyewitness, based on the true story of a teenage girl who witnessed the murder of her boyfriend in a reputed road rage attack. While researching the role, she met Cable, who later contacted her to commend her on her portrayal. The film earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Single Drama.
In 2022, she starred in Last Light, an apocalyptic thriller TV series on Peacock.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Anna Bates
2025

MobLand
Jan Da Souza · (10 episodes)
2025

Breathtaking
Dr Abbey Henderson
2024

Breathtaking
Dr. Abbey Henderson · (3 episodes)
2024

North Shore
Abigail Crawford · (6 episodes)
2023

Women of Steel
Narrator
2022

Last Light
Elena Yeats · (5 episodes)
2022

Sherwood
Sarah Vincent · (3 episodes)
2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era
Anna Bates
2022

Angela Black
Angela Black · (6 episodes)
2021

The Commons
Eadie Boulay · (8 episodes)
2019

Downton Abbey
Anna Bates
2019

A Crooked Somebody
Chelsea Mills
2018

One Last Thing
Jaime
2018

Liar
Laura Nielson · (12 episodes)
2017

Mary Shelley
Mary Jane Clairmont
2017

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Wendy (UK & US) (voice)
2017

A Street Cat Named Bob
Val
2016

Dark Angel
Mary Ann Cotton · (2 episodes)
2016

Starfish
Nicola Ray
2016

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High
2016

Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole
Narrator
2015

Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self · (1 episode)
2014

Still Life
Kelly Stoke
2013

Filth
Mary
2013

uwantme2killhim?
Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton
2013

True Love
Ruth · (1 episode)
2012

Joe's Crackers
Saskia
2010

Downton Abbey
Anna Smith · (47 episodes)
2010

In Our Name
Suzy
2010

Identity
(1 episode)
2010

Echoes
Anya
2009

Moving On
Kelly · (1 episode)
2009

Spooks: Code 9
(6 episodes)
2008

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
Joanne Lees
2007

Robin Hood
Kate · (39 episodes)
2006

The One Show
Self · (1 episode)
2006

See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Maureen Smith · (2 episodes)
2006

Missing
Sybil Foster
2006

Life on Mars
Ruth Tyler · (2 episodes)
2006

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
(2 episodes)
2006

Island at War
Angelique Mahy · (6 episodes)
2004

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Danielle Cable
2003

The Last Detective
Josie/Celia
2003

The Last Detective
Josie / Celia · (1 episode)
2003

Red Cap
(1 episode)
2003

The Stretford Wives
Dawn Richards
2002

Paradise Heights
Julia Sawyer · (6 episodes)
2002

Miranda
Jacquie
2002

Lorna Doone
Lizzie Ridd
2001

Fudge Sundae
Gemma
Nice Guy Eddie
(1 episode)
2002

Lorna Doone
Lizzie Ridd · (2 episodes)
2000
Other People's Children
Becky · (4 episodes)
2000

Rebus
Gail Maitland · (1 episode)
2000

Nature Boy
Jenny · (4 episodes)
2000

Bad Girls
Rachel Hicks · (4 episodes)
1999

dinnerladies
Sigourney · (1 episode)
1998

The Royle Family
(0 episode)
1998

The View
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1997

A Touch of Frost
Anne · (1 episode)
1992

Casualty
Lucy Curry · (1 episode)
1986