Jo Woodcock
Encyclopedia
Jo Woodcock is an English television
, film
and stage
actress. Whilst active since 2000, Woodcock has recently come into prominence following her critically acclaimed performances as Alice in the television drama
Torn
in 2007, and as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield in the television series Tess of the d'Urbervilles
in 2008. She is currently appearing as Celia Radley in Dorian Gray, the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's
novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, in 2009
crime drama Hero of the Hour as Jessica. After a 5 year break, Woodcock's career began to take off. 2005 and 2006 saw her act in both television
and stage productions. Notably, she made an appearance on the long-running UK
medical drama Casualty
. In 2005 she also portrayed a young Estella
in the stage production of Charles Dickens
's Great Expectations
, where she was praised for her "strong performance" by The British Theatre Guide. In 2007 she starred as Alice alongside veteran British actors Holly Aird and Bradley Walsh in the TV miniseries
Torn
, a role for which she received critical acclaim. In 2008 she acted in the television adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield. In March 2009, she appeared in the new BBC
series All The Small Things
as Georgia Caddick, alsongside Sarah Alexander
, Sarah Lancashire
and Richard Fleeshman
. In autumn 2009, she played the character of Celia Radley in Dorian Gray, the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's
novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
. In 2009, she also had a small part in the Greenlit Productions TV mini-series Collision
. She is currently playing the role of Bea Holloway in the BBC One five-part drama series Land Girls
.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and stage
Stage (theatre)
In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...
actress. Whilst active since 2000, Woodcock has recently come into prominence following her critically acclaimed performances as Alice in the television drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
Torn
Torn (TV series)
Torn was a three-part original television drama series, which was broadcast on ITV from 19 September 2007 to 3 October 2007. The drama has been subject to controversy due to the fact it claims to be based on actual events. It has been criticised because of its similarities to the disappearance of...
in 2007, and as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield in the television series Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British...
in 2008. She is currently appearing as Celia Radley in Dorian Gray, the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...
, in 2009
Acting career
Woodcock began her acting career in 2000, starring in the BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
crime drama Hero of the Hour as Jessica. After a 5 year break, Woodcock's career began to take off. 2005 and 2006 saw her act in both television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and stage productions. Notably, she made an appearance on the long-running UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
medical drama Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
. In 2005 she also portrayed a young Estella
Estella Havisham
Estella Havisham is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations....
in the stage production of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
's Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
, where she was praised for her "strong performance" by The British Theatre Guide. In 2007 she starred as Alice alongside veteran British actors Holly Aird and Bradley Walsh in the TV miniseries
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
Torn
Torn (TV series)
Torn was a three-part original television drama series, which was broadcast on ITV from 19 September 2007 to 3 October 2007. The drama has been subject to controversy due to the fact it claims to be based on actual events. It has been criticised because of its similarities to the disappearance of...
, a role for which she received critical acclaim. In 2008 she acted in the television adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British...
as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield. In March 2009, she appeared in the new BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
series All The Small Things
All the Small Things (TV series)
All the Small Things is a British television programme, produced by the BBC and created and developed by Debbie Horsfield. Following the lives and ambitions of a church choir and its members, the programme began airing on 31 March 2009 and ran for six episodes. The programme frequently features...
as Georgia Caddick, alsongside Sarah Alexander
Sarah Alexander
Sarah Alexander is an English actress, known for her roles in various British comedy series such as Armstrong and Miller, Smack the Pony, Coupling, The Worst Week of My Life and Green Wing....
, Sarah Lancashire
Sarah Lancashire
Sarah Lancashire is an English actress, probably best recognised for her role as Raquel Watts in Coronation Street. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986.-Television:...
and Richard Fleeshman
Richard Fleeshman
Richard Jonathan Fleeshman is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His television career began as a twelve year old, playing Craig Harris for four years in Coronation Street and most recently "All The Small Things"...
. In autumn 2009, she played the character of Celia Radley in Dorian Gray, the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...
. In 2009, she also had a small part in the Greenlit Productions TV mini-series Collision
Collision (TV series)
Collision is a five-part television drama miniseries, which debuted on ITV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a devastating car crash...
. She is currently playing the role of Bea Holloway in the BBC One five-part drama series Land Girls
Land Girls (2009 TV series)
Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a...
.
Trivia
- She is friends with fellow actress Louisa LyttonLouisa LyttonLouisa Lytton is an English actress born in Camden and living in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen. After leaving EastEnders in late 2006, Lytton joined The Bill as PC Beth Green, who she played from May 2007 to March 2009. She also appeared on Strictly...
, who appeared as Ruby on the British soap operaSoap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
EastendersEastEndersEastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Hero of the Hour (TV) | Jessica | |
| 2005 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... (TV) |
Katherine Picard | 1 episode |
| 2006 | Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
Sadie Achill | 1 episode |
| 2007 | Marple: Towards Zero | Alice | |
| Doctors | Mariah Carter | 1 episode | |
| Torn Torn (TV series) Torn was a three-part original television drama series, which was broadcast on ITV from 19 September 2007 to 3 October 2007. The drama has been subject to controversy due to the fact it claims to be based on actual events. It has been criticised because of its similarities to the disappearance of... |
Alice Hooper/Lori Taylor | 3-part mini-series | |
| 2008 | Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series... |
Natalie Brown | 2 episodes |
| Agatha Christie : Poirot | Jennifer Sutcliffe | 1 Episode | |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the d'Urbervilles Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British... |
Liza-Lu Durbeyfield | 4 episodes | |
| Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was... |
Margo Harris | 2 episodes | |
| Apparitions Apparitions (TV series) Apparitions is a BBC drama about a priest, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also carries out exorcisms.The series is written by Joe Ahearne.- Episode 1 :... |
Lisa | ||
| 2009 | |||
| All The Small Things | Georgia Caddick | 6 episodes (full series) | |
| Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine... |
Celia Radley | ||
| Land Girls Land Girls (2009 TV series) Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a... |
Bea | 10 episodes | |
| The Well | Beth | ||
| Collision Collision (TV series) Collision is a five-part television drama miniseries, which debuted on ITV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a devastating car crash... |
Jodie Tolin | 4 episodes | |
| 2010 | |||
| Powder | Ticky Turnbull | ||