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Doctor Who’s new leading lady Jenna-Louise Coleman

So who the hell is Doctor Who’s new leading lady Jenna-Louise Coleman and where did she come from?

Jenna-Louise Coleman has just been announced as Doctor Who’s new assistant, but who is she and what has she done before to deserve such a high profile role next to Daisy Lowe’s on-off boyfriend?

Don't do it! Jenna at the top of Broadcasting House after being unveiled as Doctor Who's new bit on the side

  Jenna is probably best known for her part in ITV soap Emmerdale, in which she played teenage lesbian Jasmine Thomas. She landed the part in 2005, while she was still auditioning for drama schools and lived in a shared flat with co-star Julia Mallam (Dawn Woods) during filming.
Her character was involved in a dramatic storyline which saw Jasmine murdering her boyfriend Shane Doyle, played by Paul McEwan, after he tried to rape her.

Doctor Who could have all this to come

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One for the boys: Puckering up with Debbie Dingle on Emmerdale

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  At the time Jenna told the Mirror she intentionally didn’t do any research for the scene because she wanted her approach to be natural: “I didn't want any preconceived ideas of how I was going to play it. But I watched loads of murder movies like Shallow Grave and Monster, which helped me realise how easy it is for things to get out of control when you're backed into a corner and scared."
She also revealed that she didn’t like to watch herself on the soap and wouldn’t be tuning into her biggest scenes to date: “I've no idea what I did. I hate seeing myself on screen but my grandma will be glued," she explained. "She watches every episode and always says, 'Your hair looked nice'.”

Jenna at the 2007 TV Quick and TV Choice Awards

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All glammed up at the National Television Awards 2007 (her gran was probably very proud of her hair too)

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  In 2007 Jenna was nominated for Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards and Most Popular Newcomer at the National Television Awards. Two years later she had more industry nominations under her belt, including Best Actress and Sexiest Female at the Soap Awards and had also won a part in the BBC’s Waterloo Road as tough school girl Lindsay James.

In Waterloo Road, as a schoolgirl - at the age of 23. She'll brag about this to her kids one day

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  Jenna herself went to school in Blackpool, where she was born, and something of the swat by all accounts – getting straight A’s in her A-levels and being crowned Head Girl. Despite this she chose to go to drama school instead of University and has spoken in the past of her regret at missing out on life at Uni.
She’s probably not regretting that now though. Since Waterloo Road, Jenna’s appeared in BBC Four’s adaptation of Room At The Top as Susan Brown and in 2011 made her big screen debut in Captain America: The First Avenger.

Inspecting the ceiling in Room At The Top with Matthew McNulty

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  Jenna will next be seen at the end of this month in ITV’s four part mini-series of Titanic, playing Annie Desmond, who Jenna describes as the ship’s “cheeky little monkey”.
That’s until she sidles up to Doctor Who in all her brunette, cutesy glory for the Christmas Special anyway.

Jenna-Louise Coleman at BBC Broadcasting House in London as she is unveiled as the new Dr Who new assistant

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tv-film-news/a-look-at-the-new-doctor-who-sidekick-768004

New ‘Doctor Who’ companion revealed!

Posted on 03/21/2012 by René A. Guzman

Out with the Ponds, in with the new “Doctor Who” companion. Jenna-Louise Coleman has been confirmed as the next companion to ride shotgun in the TARDIS with the current Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). The official news released this morning reveals the 25-year-old Coleman will replace current companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Amy’s hubby Rory (Arthur Darvill) when the wedded sidekicks “bow out of the show in a heartbreaking departure after one final series of rollercoaster voyages later this year….”
And from what executive producer Steven Moffat has to say about Coleman, it looks like we’re in for a whole new rollercoaster ride across time and space when she hops aboard the show.
“It’s not often the Doctor meets someone who can talk even faster than he does, but it’s about to happen,” Moffat says in the release. “Jenna is going to lead him his merriest dance yet. And that’s all you’re getting for now. Who she’s playing, how the Doctor meets her, and even where he finds her, are all part of one of the biggest mysteries the Time Lord ever encounters. Even by the Doctor’s standards, this isn’t your usual boy meets girl.”
Coleman is perhaps best known stateside — and that’s using the term very loosely — for her blink and you’ll miss it role in “Captain America: The First Avenger.” (She played Connie, one of the ladies in Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes’ double date early in the film.) Coleman has also starred in “Emmerdale” as Jasmine Thomas and “Waterloo Road” as Lindsay James.
And so the Google image searches break the Internet. More to come, I’m sure.

Source: http://blog.mysanantonio.com/geekspeak/2012/03/new-doctor-who-companion-revealed/

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