Emma Pierson

Emma Jane Pierson (born April 30, 1981 in Plymouth , Devon, GB) is an English actress . She is best known for starring Anna Thornton-Wilton in the BBC television film Hotel Babylon .

Pierson has appeared in many television productions such as SunTrap , Days Like These , Beast , I Saw You , Charles II: The Power and The Passion , The Worst Week of My Life , Bloodlines , Coupling and Time Gentlemen Please . Her recent projects include Lives of the Saints and the BBC Three comedy Dead Boss .

Life

Emma Jane Pierson was born on April 30, 1981 in Plymouth , Devon, to a nurse and a Royal Navy submarine sailor . Her father Charles was stationed at Faslane Naval Base on the River Clyde . Emma spent the first four years of her life there.

Thereafter Pierson lived with her parents and three siblings in North Bradley near Trowbridge , Wiltshire , where she attended Grittleton House School and later St Laurence School in nearby Bradford on Avon . There she received acting lessons.

After finishing school in 1997, Pierson played with the North Bradley Players , an amateur theater company, in a number of plays such as: B. Chekhov's uncle Vanya .

Pierson was given the opportunity to play the role of Becky Radcliffe in the BBC children's television series Grange Hill while studying law at what was then City of Bath College (now Bath College ) .

Acting career

After retiring from Grange Hill , Pierson took on the role of Jackie Burgett in Days Like These , an ITV adaptation of the American comedy series That '70s Show . Days Like These was a failure, however, and the series was canceled after only ten of thirteen episodes. She later got a prominent role (as Tree) in the West End production of Five Guys named Moe . Her performances in Gardener's World received excellent reviews annually. Her producer said her role in Messy Bessy might have laid the foundation for an acting career.

Pierson continued to star in television series, including various episodes of the Channel 4 Sketch program Armstrong and Miller , also in Beast with Alexander Armstrong and in The Worst Week of My Life with Ben Miller . In 2002 Julia Sawalha was retired from the Time Gentlemen Please series (screenplay by Al Murray and Richard Herring). Pierson took her place and played the student and bartender Connie in the second season. She also appeared on an episode of the Coupling series .

Pierson's career as a television actress also included roles in series such as Bedtime and Legend of the Tamworth Two , and Emma Pierson appeared on the 2010 series House on Fire (Radio 4).

She also appeared in Stranded , a variation on the theme of Swiss Family Robinson on the Hallmark Channel , in the BBC film The Project , in Charles II and in the British low-budget film The Engagement from the director of Sirens , which has not yet been released . John Duigan .

In 2005, Pierson played the role of cop Justine Hopkin in the ITV two-parter Bloodlines . She also starred in films such as Riot at the Rite , a period film about the Russian dancer Nijinsky, and Hotel Babylon , a BBC television series based on Imogen Edwards-Jones' novel Hotel Babylon and life behind the scenes in a London hotel describes.

In the British film The Lives of the Saints , Pierson played the role of Tina. The film was released in 2006. This role was her first major role in a movie after brief appearances in Virtual Sexuality and Guest House Paradiso .

Filmography

Movies

• 1999: Guest House Paradiso
• 1999: Virtual Sexuality
• 2001: Dumping Elaine (short film)
• 2002: Project Power Change ( The Project , TV film)
• 2002: Shipwrecked ( Stranded , TV movie)
• 2003: Uncle Douglas (short film)
• 2004: The Legend of the Tamworth Two (TV movie)
• 2005: Riot at the Rite (TV movie)
• 2005: Bloodlines (TV movie)
• 2005: Angell's Hell (TV movie)
• 2006: The Lives of the Saints
• 2007: Who Gets the Dog? (TV movie)
• 2010: Barbie and the Secret of Oceana ( Barbie in a Mermaid Tale , voice)
• 2014: Sophia Grace and Rosie's Royal Adventure
• 2015: Absolutely Anything

TV Shows

• 1999: Grange Hill
• 1999: Days Like These
• 2000: Beast (12 episodes)
• 2001: Bedtime (6 episodes)
• 2001: Absolutely Fabulous
• 2001: Armstrong and Miller
• 2002: I Saw You (3 episodes)
• 2002: Time Gentlemen Please (12 episodes)
• 2002: Coupling - who with whom? ( Coupling , episode 3x06: The Girl with One Heart )
• 2003: Charles II: The Power and The Passion (one episode)
• 2003: My Hero (episode 4x07: Big )
• 2003: A Touch of Frost (episode 10x03: Held in Trust )
• 2004: The Last Chancers (2 episodes)
• 2004: The Worst Week of My Life (7 episodes)
• 2005: The Brief (episode 2x03: Forever on the Mind )
• 2005: Twisted Tales (Episode 1x07: The Irredeemable Brain of Dr. Heinrich Hunsecker )
• 2006: Morning Glory (episode 1x10)
• 2006–2009: Hotel Babylon (27 episodes)
• 2007: Talk to Me (4 episodes)
• 2008: Little Dorrit ( Little Dorrit , 14 episodes)
• 2010: Money (2 episodes)
• 2012: Dead Boss (6 episodes)
• 2013: Love Matters (episode 1x02: Officially Special )
• 2013: Death in Paradise (episode 2x03: Death In The Clinic )
• 2013–2015: Up the Women (9 episodes)
• 2015: The Kennedys (6 episodes)
• 2015: SunTrap (6 episodes)
• 2016: Cuckoo (2 episodes)

Videos

• 2003: Thea Gilmore (episode: Juliet )

Video games

• 2011: Dark Souls (voice as Anastacia of Astora / Dusk of Oolacile)

Web links

• Emma Pierson in the Internet Movie Database (English)