Jodie Whittaker

Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 3 January 1982) is an English actress who first came to prominence for her work in the film  Venus (2006). Since then she has starred in the films  St Trinian's (2007),  Good (2008),  St Trinian's 2 (2009) and  Attack the Block (2011). She has also starred in the television series  Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008),  Wired (2008),  Return to Cranford (2009),  Marchlands (2011) and  Broadchurch (2013). ==Career[ edit] ==

Whittaker made her professional debut in The Storm at Shakespeare's Globe in 2005. She has since worked in film, television, radio and theatre. In 2007 she stood in at short notice for an unwell Carey Mulligan in the Royal Court's production of The Seagull, and appeared in a fundraising play at the Almeida Theatre.

In her first major role, she co-starred as Jessie (a.k.a. Venus) with Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips in the aforementioned Venus.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Whittaker's radio credits include a 2008 adaptation of Blinded by the Sun by Stephen Poliakoff, which also starred Harriet Walter and Alex Jennings and the role of Lydia Bennett in Unseen Austen an original drama by Judith French.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2009 she worked on the film Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World, the BBC2 drama Royal Wedding and the short film Wish 143, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In 2010, she appeared in the film The Kid and co-starred in BBC1's Accused, which aired on 6 December 2010.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Whittaker appeared in Ian Fitzgibbon's 2009 Irish comedy crime film Perrier's Bounty, alongside Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2011, she appeared as Viv in the BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters's novel The Night Watch and in the cult film Attack the Block. In 2012 she starred in the musical comedy-drama Good Vibrations. It was released in the UK in March 2013.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In March–April 2013, Whittaker starred in the high-profile ITV detective drama Broadchurch. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;visibility:visible;">] ==

<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Whittaker is from the village of Skelmanthorpe in Yorkshire. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2005 with the gold medal for acting. She has been married to American actor Christian Contreras since 2008.