Joanna Higson was born on 29 May 1983 and is an English actress.
19 Facts About Joanna Higson
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Joanna Higson graduated from Salford University with a First Class Honours degree in Media and Performance in 2006.
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Joanna Higson joined the cast of Shameless in series 6, playing the role of "Maxine".
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Joanna Higson reprised the role playing a more prominent part as manager of a club with Erin and later part of the main group.
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Joanna Higson then appeared in the pilot episode of Scallywagga when the series was titled Spacehopper.
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Joanna Higson played Amy Osbourne in Cold Blood in June 2007 and in Cold Blood 5: The Last Hurrah on 3 January 2008.
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From April to June 2008, Joanna Higson returned in the comedy sketch show series Scallywagga on BBC Three.
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Joanna Higson played a number of lead characters including the role of Greggs Girl.
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Joanna Higson appeared as a new regular character, Maxine Donnelly, in Series 6 and 7 of the Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless from January 2009 to 2010.
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Joanna Higson left the show after 31 episodes over two series; her character was never mentioned again.
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Joanna Higson then appeared in the Jimmy McGovern BBC1 Drama Accused broadcast in November 2010, playing the young daughter of Christopher Eccleston's character, Willy, whose single chance encounter with a money launderer leads to a slippery criminal downfall for and his family and him.
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Joanna Higson played the character Rachel Reid, a troubled and fragile alcoholic, in one episode of Series 14 of the long-running BBC medical drama Holby City broadcast on 29 December 2011.
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Joanna Higson's character reappeared on 28 August 2012 in the episode "Taxi For Spence" In 2012, Higson played the role of Sarah Milson, directed by Joanna Lumley, in Lumley's Little Crackers episode "Joanna Lumley's Little Cracker: Baby, Be Blonde".
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Joanna Higson appeared in three episodes of Doctors, as the character Lindsey Holt, in the episodes "My Brother's Keeper", Parts 1 and 2, and "I Want to Break Free".
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Joanna Higson is currently playing "Sugar", part of the main cast in the Sky One series Brassic which began airing in August 2019.
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Joanna Higson has appeared in all of the seasons to date.
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Joanna Higson played Jo in A Taste of Honey at The New Vic Theatre in Stoke in 2009, where she returned in 2011 for the repertory season, playing Lydia Languish in The Rivals, Hilda Crompton in Spring and Port Wine, and Lady Agetha in The Admirable Crichton.
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Joanna Higson toured with the Bolton Octagon production of Hobsons Choice directed by David Thacker in 2014.
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In 2015, Joanna Higson played Dee in Richard Harris' The Business of Murder produced by the Middle Ground Theatre Company which toured the UK.