Emma Pierson
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2018 · Killing Eve as Gemma
- 2015 · The Kennedys as Jenny
- 2015 · SunTrap as Melody
- 2015 · Absolutely Anything as Miss Pringle
- 2014 · Downhill as Jen
- 2013 · Up the Women as Eva
- 2012 · Cuckoo as Jess
- 2011 · The Engagement as Rita
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as Anna Jones
- 2011 · Nancy, Sid and Sergio as Nancy
- 2010 · Money as Selina Street
- 2010 · Barbie in A Mermaid Tale as Kayla (voice)
- 2008 · Little Dorrit as Fanny Dorrit
- 2008 · MeeBOX as Co-star
- 2007 · Who Gets the Dog as Tara Walker
- 2007 · Talk to Me as
- 2007 · Blood on Benefits as Charlotte
- 2007 · Lives of the Saints as Tina
- 2006 · Hotel Babylon as Anna Thornton-Wilton
- 2005 · Riot at the Rite as Romola
- 2005 · Bloodlines as Justine Hopkin
- 2004 · The Last Chancers as
- 2004 · The Legend of the Tamworth Two as Jenny West
- 2004 · The Worst Week of My Life as Sophie Cook
- 2003 · Charles II: The Power and The Passion as
- 2003 · Spine Chillers as Emma
- 2002 · Stranded as Sarah Robinson
- 2002 · Stranded as Sarah Robinson
- 2001 · Dumping Elaine as Waitress
- 2001 · Bedtime as Sapphire
- 2000 · Time Gentlemen Please as
- 2000 · Coupling as Jennifer
- 2000 · My Hero as Chelsea Williams
- 2000 · Beast as Jade
- 1999 · Guest House Paradiso as Saucy Wood Nymph
- 1999 · Virtual Sexuality as Fiona
- 1999 · Days Like These as
- 1997 · Armstrong and Miller as
- 1992 · A Touch of Frost as
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Kasha
- 1988 · This Morning as Self