![]() On 9 March 2014, it was announced that Raine was leaving the show at the end of series three to pursue a film career in the United States. She starred as the lead character Jenny Lee in the first three series of the BBC One drama Call the Midwife. Raine's first screen credits were an appearance in a 2009 episode of Garrow's Law and a small role in the 2010 film Robin Hood. In 2012 Raine starred in Beyond Ballets Russes at the London Coliseum. She played a role in the Young Vic's revival of Middleton and Rowley's 17th-century tragedy, The Changeling. She has also appeared in Ghosts and Punk Rock, for which she won the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Supporting Actress. Raine played at the National Theatre in Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes in London as teenage wild-child Jasmine and then as a secretary in the revival of Clifford Odets's Rocket to the Moon. She played Tamsin Greig's 16-year-old daughter in David Hare's Gethsemane. Īfter graduating in 2008, Raine began a successful stage career, initially cast as Lesley Sharp's goth daughter in Simon Stephens's Harper Regan. Moving to London in anticipation of starting her course, she worked part-time as a waitress and for BT Group. Returning home after a year, she applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art a second time and was accepted. Career Career beginnings and theatre work After graduating, she was turned down by every drama school she applied to, so went to Thailand and taught English as a second language. In sixth form she studied theatre at A-Level and a BTEC in photography at Hereford College of Arts and studied drama and cultural studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Educated in Kington, Herefordshire, she wanted to be an actress from the age of 13, as her father starred in amateur dramatics with the Eardisley Little Theatre. She is the younger of two daughters of farmer Allan Lloyd (descended from the Lloyd family of Baynham Hall, who were well known for generations as bonesetters alongside their farming activities), and his wife Sue, who trained as a dancer and then worked as a nurse. Raine was born Jessica Helen Lloyd, on, in Eardisley, Herefordshire, where she was raised on her father's farm. Raine portrayed Catherine Parr in Becoming Elizabeth, a historical drama featuring Elizabeth I as a teenager. She is best known for her roles as Jenny Lee in the television series Call the Midwife (2012–2014) and Verity Lambert in the television film An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). Jessica Raine (born Jessica Helen Lloyd ) is an English actress.
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