Name
Emma Pierson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-04-30 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Biography
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.
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- 2005 Riot at the Rite as Romola
- 2008 MeeBOX as Co-star
- 2007 Lives of the Saints as Tina
- 2001 Dumping Elaine as Waitress
- 2014 Downhill as Jen
- 2007 Blood on Benefits as Charlotte
- 2011 Nancy, Sid and Sergio as Nancy
- 2011 The Engagement as Rita
- 1999 Guest House Paradiso as Saucy Wood Nymph
- 2015 Absolutely Anything as Miss Pringle
- 2007 Who Gets the Dog as Tara Walker
- 1999 Virtual Sexuality as Fiona
- 2010 Barbie in A Mermaid Tale as Kayla (voice)
- 2004 The Legend of the Tamworth Two as Jenny West
- 2002 Stranded as Sarah Robinson
- 1988 This Morning ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Days Like These ( 13 episodes )
- 2006 Hotel Babylon ( 32 episodes ) as Anna Thornton-Wilton
- 1992 A Touch of Frost ( 1 episode ) as Alice Thompson
- 2000 Coupling ( 1 episode ) as Jennifer
- 2004 The Worst Week of My Life ( 7 episodes ) as Sophie Cook
- 1997 Armstrong and Miller ( 46 episodes )
- 2000 Beast ( 12 episodes ) as Jade
- 2000 Time Gentlemen Please ( 23 episodes )
- 2008 Little Dorrit ( 14 episodes ) as Fanny Dorrit
- 2001 Bedtime ( 6 episodes ) as Sapphire
- 2012 Cuckoo ( 2 episodes ) as Jess
- 2003 Spine Chillers ( 1 episode ) as Emma
- 2010 Money ( 2 episodes ) as Selina Street
- 2013 Up the Women ( 9 episodes ) as Eva
- 2015 SunTrap ( 6 episodes ) as Melody
- 2015 The Kennedys ( 6 episodes ) as Jenny
- 2011 Death in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Anna Jones
- 2000 My Hero ( 1 episode ) as Chelsea Williams
- 2018 Killing Eve ( 3 episodes ) as Gemma
- 2002 Stranded ( 1 episode ) as Sarah Robinson
- 2005 Bloodlines ( 2 episodes ) as Justine Hopkin
- 2005 Twisted Tales ( 1 episode ) as Jane
- 2003 Charles II: The Power and The Passion ( 1 episode ) as Nell Gwynn
- 2007 Talk to Me ( 4 episodes ) as Ally
- 2004 The Last Chancers ( 5 episodes ) as Kirby
- 1992 Absolutely Fabulous ( 1 episode ) as Kasha
