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Aliases: Emma Jane Pierson

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

Homepage: https://www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/emma-pierson

Movie Involvements: 8

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

Biography

Emma Jane Pierson (born 30 April 1981) is an English actress. Her appearances in television programmes include the role of Anna Thornton-Wilton in the BBC television drama Hotel Babylon, and SunTrap, Days Like These, Beast, I Saw You, Charles II: The Power and The Passion, The Worst Week of My Life, Bloodlines, Coupling, Time Gentlemen Please, Dead Boss and Killing Eve. The daughter of a nurse and a Royal Navy submariner, Pierson was born Emma Jane Pierson on 30 April 1981 in Plymouth, Devon. Her father, Charles, was stationed at Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde where Emma spent the first four years of her life. When she was in her teens, Pierson lived with her parents and three siblings in North Bradley, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, attending Grittleton House School and then later St Laurence School in nearby Bradford on Avon where she began taking acting lessons. After leaving school in 1997, Pierson performed in amateur productions with the North Bradley players, appearing in a number of plays including Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Pierson gained the role of Becky Radcliffe in the BBC children's drama series Grange Hill while studying law at the City of Bath College. After leaving Grange Hill, Pierson took on the role of Jackie Burgett in Days Like These, an ITV sitcom set in Luton and adapted from the American comedy series That '70s Show. However, Days Like These proved unsuccessful and the series was cancelled after only ten of its thirteen episodes were aired. Pierson has continued to appear in comedy series, including various episodes of the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, Beast with Alexander Armstrong and The Worst Week of My Life with Ben Miller. In 2002, following the departure from the series of Julia Sawalha, Pierson played new character student barmaid Connie in the second series of sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, written by Al Murray and Richard Herring, and appeared in an episode of the sitcom Coupling.

Most Famous Work

Killing Eve
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8

Killing Eve

(2018) Gemma
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale
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7

Barbie in A Mermaid Tale

(2010) Kayla (voice)
Little Dorrit
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8

Little Dorrit

(2008) Fanny Dorrit
Stranded
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6

Stranded

(2002) Sarah Robinson
Bloodlines
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7

Bloodlines

(2005) Justine Hopkin
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
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3
Stranded
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7

Stranded

(2002) Sarah Robinson
Riot at the Rite
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9

Riot at the Rite

(2005) Romola

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2018 Gemma
2015 Jenny
Miss Pringle
Melody
2014 Jen
2013 Eva
2011 Anna Jones
Nancy
2010 Selina Street
Kayla (voice)
2008 Fanny Dorrit
Co-star
2007 Tara Walker
N/A
Charlotte
Tina
2006 Anna Thornton-Wilton
2005 Romola
Justine Hopkin
2004 N/A
Jenny West
Sophie Cook
2003 N/A
2002 Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson
2001 Waitress
N/A
2000 N/A
Jennifer
Jade
1999 Saucy Wood Nymph
Fiona
N/A
1997 N/A
1992 N/A
N/A
1988 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

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