Joan Froggatt is a popular British actress. She has been repeatedly nominated for prestigious film awards. Joan can be seen in the movies Stopped Life, Street Cat Bob, and Dirt. Froggatt also starred in Downton Abbey, Life on Mars, Robin Hood and True Love.
Biography
Joan Froggatt was born on August 23, 1980. Her homeland is the village of Littleback in North Yorkshire. The actress's parents, Anne and Keith, ran a shop and a farm, and were engaged in sheep breeding. In his youth, Joan was taken into a drama troupe in Scarborough. Froggatt was educated at Redruffs Theater School in Maidenhead.
In 2012, Joan Froggatt and James Cannon got married. The husband of the actress holds a leading position in the field of information technology. Before tying the knot, the lovers met for a long time.
Career
At the beginning of her film career, Joan starred in several TV series. Among them are the melodrama Coronation Street, which ran from 1960 to 2013, the crime drama A Pure English Murder, which also ran on British television for several decades, and the medical drama Catastrophe with Derek Thompson, Suzanne Packer, Tony Marshall and Ian. Blisdale in the lead roles.
Froggatt could also be seen in an episode of the crime thriller Detective Jack Frost. Her partners on the set were David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White and James McKenna. John starred in Caroline Ahern's comedy series The Royal Family and the crime drama Bad Girls, as well as voicing the popular animated series Bob the Builder.
In 2000, Joan played Jenny in the miniseries Nature's Child. Later she could be seen in the TV series "Rebus: Hanging Garden", in which the past is intertwined with the present. In the same period, Froggatt, along with Leslie Manville, Denis Lawson, Serena Gordon and Frank Harper, played one of the main roles in the series Children of Other People.
Creation
The next big role of the actress took place in 2006. She played Maureen Smith in the crime thriller No Evil: The Swamp Murders. The series tells about the life of a couple who have lost their young child. The following year, she played Joan Lins, the friend of the protagonist in Murder in the Wilderness. In 2012, Froggatt played one of the main roles in the famous drama Stopped Life with Eddie Marsan. According to the plot, the fate of a quiet, inconspicuous person suddenly changes. A year later, Joan got the role of a detective in the thriller "Do you want me to kill him?"
In 2016, the actress got the role of Nicola Rae in the drama Starfish. Froggatt played the wife of a terminally ill man. The film was directed and written by Bill Clark. Almost simultaneously, Joan played the main character in the "Dark Angel" mini-series. She could later be seen in the family comedy "Bob the Street Cat" starring Luke Tradaway. The picture tells how a charming but wayward pet changed the life of a guy from a dysfunctional social environment. In 2018, the actress played one of the main roles in the drama “Something to Last”. In total, Froggatt has about 50 roles in films and TV shows.
