Joanne Froggatt

Born

August 23, 1980 (44 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Anna Bates

0.0

2025

MobLand

MobLand

Jan Da Souza · (10 episodes)

8.5

2025

Breathtaking

Breathtaking

Dr Abbey Henderson

0.0

2024

Breathtaking

Breathtaking

Dr. Abbey Henderson · (3 episodes)

6.6

2024

North Shore

North Shore

Abigail Crawford · (6 episodes)

6.6

2023

Women of Steel

Women of Steel

Narrator

7.0

2022

Last Light

Last Light

Elena Yeats · (5 episodes)

6.3

2022

Sherwood

Sherwood

Sarah Vincent · (3 episodes)

7.0

2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Anna Bates

7.2

2022

Angela Black

Angela Black

Angela Black · (6 episodes)

6.4

2021

The Commons

The Commons

Eadie Boulay · (8 episodes)

6.4

2019

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

Anna Bates

7.1

2019

A Crooked Somebody

A Crooked Somebody

Chelsea Mills

6.3

2018

One Last Thing

One Last Thing

Jaime

6.5

2018

Liar

Liar

Laura Nielson · (12 episodes)

6.6

2017

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Mary Jane Clairmont

7.0

2017

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

Wendy (UK & US) (voice)

8.3

2017

A Street Cat Named Bob

A Street Cat Named Bob

Val

7.9

2016

Dark Angel

Dark Angel

Mary Ann Cotton · (2 episodes)

6.3

2016

Starfish

Starfish

Nicola Ray

6.6

2016

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

0.0

2016

Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole

Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole

Narrator

0.0

2015

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Self · (1 episode)

4.0

2014

Still Life

Still Life

Kelly Stoke

7.5

2013

Filth

Filth

Mary

6.9

2013

uwantme2killhim?

uwantme2killhim?

Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton

6.0

2013

True Love

True Love

Ruth · (1 episode)

6.9

2012

Joe's Crackers

Joe's Crackers

Saskia

7.2

2010

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

Anna Smith · (47 episodes)

8.1

2010

In Our Name

In Our Name

Suzy

5.3

2010

Identity

Identity

(1 episode)

6.8

2010

Echoes

Echoes

Anya

0.0

2009

Moving On

Moving On

Kelly · (1 episode)

7.1

2009

Spooks: Code 9

Spooks: Code 9

(6 episodes)

5.4

2008

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

Joanne Lees

6.0

2007

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Kate · (39 episodes)

6.8

2006

The One Show

The One Show

Self · (1 episode)

4.5

2006

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

Maureen Smith · (2 episodes)

6.3

2006

Missing

Missing

Sybil Foster

6.0

2006

Life on Mars

Life on Mars

Ruth Tyler · (2 episodes)

7.8

2006

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price

(2 episodes)

0.0

2006

Island at War

Island at War

Angelique Mahy · (6 episodes)

7.6

2004

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

Danielle Cable

0.0

2003

The Last Detective

The Last Detective

Josie/Celia

0.0

2003

The Last Detective

The Last Detective

Josie / Celia · (1 episode)

7.6

2003

Red Cap

Red Cap

(1 episode)

6.4

2003

The Stretford Wives

The Stretford Wives

Dawn Richards

0.0

2002

Paradise Heights

Paradise Heights

Julia Sawyer · (6 episodes)

0.0

2002

Miranda

Miranda

Jacquie

5.4

2002

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

Lizzie Ridd

5.7

2001

Fudge Sundae

Fudge Sundae

Gemma

0.0

Nice Guy Eddie

(1 episode)

0.0

2002

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

Lizzie Ridd · (2 episodes)

8.0

2000

Other People's Children

Becky · (4 episodes)

0.0

2000

Rebus

Rebus

Gail Maitland · (1 episode)

7.0

2000

Nature Boy

Nature Boy

Jenny · (4 episodes)

8.0

2000

Bad Girls

Bad Girls

Rachel Hicks · (4 episodes)

7.6

1999

dinnerladies

dinnerladies

Sigourney · (1 episode)

7.4

1998

The Royle Family

The Royle Family

(0 episode)

7.6

1998

The View

The View

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

4.5

1997

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost

Anne · (1 episode)

7.5

1992

Casualty

Casualty

Lucy Curry · (1 episode)

6.1

1986