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Jo Woodcock (born 9 September 1988) is an English actress. Although active since 2000, Woodcock came into prominence following her critically acclaimed performances as Alice in the television
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'' Torn'' in 2007, and as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield in the television series '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' in 2008. She appeared as Celia Radley in ''
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'', in 2009.


Career

Jo Woodcock was born on 9 September 1988 in Turnbridge Wells in Kent. She began her acting career in 2000, aged 12, starring in the
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crime drama '' Hero of the Hour'' as Jessica. After a five-year break, Woodcock's career began to take off. 2005 and 2006 saw her act in both
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and stage productions. Notably, she made an appearance on the long-running UK medical drama ''
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''. In 2005 she also portrayed a young
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in the stage production of
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'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
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in the TV miniseries '' Torn,'' a role for which she received critical acclaim.https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2HT8NMTBIEAYH Her appearance in '' Torn'' led to a number of roles the following year in such established shows as '' Waking the Dead'', ''
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'' and '' Silent Witness'', with her most notable role in 2008 being in the television adaptation of '' Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield. The roles kept coming in 2009, appearing in the new
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series '' All The Small Things'' as Georgia Caddick, alongside
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. Later that year she played the character of Celia Radley in ''
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'', the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel ''
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'' and also had a small part in the Greenlit Productions TV mini-series ''
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'', before appearing in another series that brought her attention in the BBC One drama series '' Land Girls''. She played the part of Bea Holloway, and apart from a break in the 2nd series she was in the show from the start until it ended in 2011. After '' Land Girls'' she continued to appear in a number of productions. In 2011 she appeared in only her second film Powder, about a rock band's attempts to emerge in the UK music scene. As well as showing the usual drugs and excess of the industry, Woodcock was called upon to strip off for a dramatic scene. Despite being adapted by '' Kevin Sampson'' from his own 1999 novel, the film received some negative reviews from newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Observer. Later that year, she appeared in the anthology series '' Moving On'' in the episode "Poetry of Silence", as well as the short film ''Graceland''. In 2012, she appeared in '' True Love'', an anthology series of five dramas on BBC1 that were entirely improvised. Woodcock appeared in three of the five productions. The following year she appeared in episodes of '' Midsomer Murders'' and '' Death in Paradise''. Of late she has worked on a number of short films, as well as doing a couple of voiceover jobs for video games. She then appeared in the horror film ''Perfect Skin'', which was released in cinemas in 2018. In March 2022, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera '' Doctors'' as Melissa Benson.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodcock, Jo 1988 births Living people English television actresses People from Pembury Actresses from Kent