Joanna Higson

Joanna Higson (born 29 May 1983 in Horwich, UK) is an English actress. She graduated from Salford University with a First Class Honours degree in Media and Performance in 2006.^[1]

Career

Television

Higson's first television role came on 22 January 2007 when she was handpicked by Jim Cartwright for a role in an episode of The Afternoon Play on BBC One entitled, "Johnny Shakespeare".^[2] She then appeared in the pilot episode of Scallwagga when the series was titled Spacehopper.^[2] She played Amy Osbourne in Cold Blood in June 2007 and also in Cold Blood 5: The Last Hurrah on 3 January 2008.^[3] On 13 December 2007 she appeared in an episode of the BBC television series, The Street.^[4]

From April to June 2008, Higson returned in the comedy sketch show series Scallywagga on BBC Three.^[5] She played a number of lead characters including the role of Greggs Girl.^[6][7]

Higson appeared as a new regular character, Maxine Donnelly, in the sixth and seventh series of the comedy drama Shameless on Channel 4 from January 2009 to 2010.^[2] She left the show after thirty-one episodes over two series; her character was never mentioned again.^[2]

Higson then appeared in the Jimmy McGovern BBC1 Drama Accused broadcast in November 2010,^[2] playing the young daughter of Christopher Eccleston's character, Willy, whose single chance encounter with a money launderer leads to a slippery criminal downfall for and his family and him.

She played the character Rachel Reid, a troubled and fragile alcoholic, in one episode of Series 14 of the long-running BBC medical drama Holby City broadcast on 29 December 2011.^[8] In April, it was confirmed that the BBC would bring back the Rachel character due to her popularity with viewers. Her character reappeared on 28 August 2012 in the episode "Taxi For Spence" ^[9] In 2012, Higgson played he role of Sarah Milson, directed by Joanna Lumley, in Lumley's Little Crackers episode "Joanna Lumley's Little Cracker: Baby, Be Blonde".^[10]

She appeared in three episodes of Doctors (8 January 2013 and 9 January 2013), as the character Lindsey Holt, in the episodes "My Brother's Keeper", Parts 1 and 2,My Brother's Keeper", Parts 1 and 2^[11] and "I Want to Break Free" (30 September 2014).^[12]

In 2015, Higson played the role of Vicky Hall in the third series of the BBC's WPC56 in three episodes: "Walk the Line" (10 March 2015), "From the Shadows" (11 March 2015), and "Requiem" (13 March 2015).^[13]

Theatre

Among her theatrical roles, in 2008 Higson appeared in two plays, Road and Spring and Port Wine, at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton.^[14]

Higson played Jo in A Taste Of Honey at The New Vic Theatre in Stoke in 2009,^[15] where she returned in 2011 for the repertory season, playing Lydia Languish in The Rivals,^[16] Hilda Crompton in Spring and Port Wine,^[1] and Lady Agetha in The Admirable Crichton.^[17]

In 2013, she played the roles of Clara Copperfield and Agnes Wickfield in David Copperfield at The Oldham Coliseum Theatre,^[18] and Jenny Crabtree in The Transit of Venus at the Cul-De-Sac Theatre.^[3]

She toured with the Bolton Octagon production of Hobsons Choice directed by David Thacker in 2014.^[1]

In 2015, Higson played Dee in Richard Harris' The Business of Murder produced by the Middle Ground Theatre Company which toured the UK.^[19]

Other Interests

Higson owns a photography studio, Joanna Higson Photography, that specialises in head shots for actors' resumes.^[20]

References

External links

• Joanna Higson at the Internet Movie Database
• Joanna Higson Photography