Jenna Louise Coleman

Jenna-Louise Coleman is a British actress, born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England on April 27, 1986. Her previous roles include Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale (2005-2009), Lindsay James in Waterloo Road (2009), Connie (one of Steve and Bucky's dates at the fair) in Captain America the First Avenger (2011), and the voice of Melia in the English language version of the 2010 video game Xenoblade. She also featured in ITV 1's 2012 Titanic miniseries as Annie Desmond; the BAFTA-winning 2012 TV miniseries Room at the Top as Susan Brown; and the 2013 TV miniseries Dancing on the Edge and Death Comes to Pemberley as Rosie and Lydia Wickham, respectively. She reprised her role as Lydia Wickham in 2014's Death Comes to Pemberley: Part Two on Masterpiece Mystery. In 2015, she appeared in the short Imaginary Forces as Ellen. She is currently in ITV's series Victoria, about the early life of Queen Victoria from her ascension to the throne at the age of eighteen through her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert, which will begin appearing on Sundays on American public television in 2017. She has also finished shooting a movie called Me Before You, in which she stars as Katrina Clark, a small-town girl bonding with a man who was recently paralyzed; this is supposed to open in theaters on June 3, 2016.

From 2012 to 2015, she played in Doctor Who, first appearing as Oswin in the 2012 episode Asylum of the Daleks and debuting as the human companion Clara Oswald alongside Matt Smith's Doctor in the 2012 Christmas Episode The Snowmen. She continued to co-star with Peter Capaldi's Doctor until departing in the 2015 episode Hell Bent. She also appeared in 2013's Doctor Who at the Proms and the 2015 video game Lego Dimensions as Clara Oswald, and inThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (a 2013 TV-movie) in which she played herself.

She's said to be able to talk even faster than Matt, which helped win her the part of Clara.