Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986), credited since June 2013 as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress.
She is known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Clara Oswald in the BBC series Doctor Who, Queen Victoria in the ITV drama Victoria and Joanna Lindsay in the BBC series The Cry.
Coleman was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and began her acting career at an early age as a member of a theatre company called In Yer Space.
While auditioning for drama schools in 2005, she was chosen to play Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale.
She received critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for the Most Popular Newcomer award at the 2006 National Television Awards.Coleman went on to play "hard girl" Lindsay James in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2009), Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top (2012), Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes' four part mini-series Titanic (2012) and Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff's original drama series Dancing on the Edge (2013).
She appeared as Lydia Wickham in the BBC drama miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) and as Katrina Clark in the romance film Me Before You (2016).
In 2018, she starred in the BBC series The Cry as Joanna Lindsay.