Jeany Spark
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| Born | 7 November 1982 |
Jeannette "Jeany" Spark (born 7 November 1982) is an English actress, known for portraying Linda Wallander in the British television series Wallander.[1] Series 3 first aired on BBC1 in July 2012.
She studied English literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 2004. She then trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2007.[2]
Was briefly married to another actor in 2008 but the marriage only lasted a year.
In 2008, she played school teacher Mercy Chant and very good friend of Angel Clare (played by Eddie Redmayne) in the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.[3]
In 2010 she acted the part of a homeless girl the third episode of Sherlock, The Great Game.[4] In 2011 she portrayed Joan Malin in the television drama film Hattie. In 2013, she took the role of the headmistress, Emma, in Man Down, the Channel 4 comedy series. She plays the role of Detective Inspector Kate Gemmill in the 2015 BBC drama The Interceptor.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxtct/episodes
- ↑ http://ashbee.net/rada/grad07/spa.html
- ↑ credits of the BBC show Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664530/fullcredits
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3n9Dkf41C8vxjzxps8F1xn2/gemmill
External links
- Jeany Spark at the Internet Movie Database
- An article from the Almeida Theatre, London:
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