Jo-Anne Knowles (born in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English actress.

Having started acting at the age of 11, she has appeared in many major soaps, including ITV's Emmerdale and Coronation Street, BBC One's EastEnders and Doctors, and Channel 4's Brookside and Hollyoaks. She is best known for playing Janis Steel in Sky1's Mile High and Fanny Tickler in Channel 4's Phoenix Nights. She has played recurring roles in The Bill, and Waterloo Road, has had many guest roles in Holby City and Casualty and was in two episodes of the BBC mini-series Moving On. She has also played Mina Van Helsing in the popular CBBC series Young Dracula.

She is married and lives in London. She gave birth to a daughter in 2010.[1]

Filmography

Year Title Type Role Notes
1984 Juliet Bravo TV Judith Trevor 1 Episode
1984–1985 Brookside TV Jessica Haynes 4 episodes
1988 How To Be Cool TV Secretary 1 Episode
1991, 2006–2007 The Bill TV Nurse / Mia Perry 23 episodes
1994, 2002 Emmerdale TV Kaye Mannerson / Sally 3 episodes
1995 Hollyoaks TV Lorraine Wilson
1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2017 Coronation Street TV Nursing Sister / Gilly Saunders / Mrs Hardy / DC Ann Short / Chloe Tipton
1999 City Central TV Ms. Jenkins 1 Episode
1999 Cold Feet TV Amanda 1 Episode
1999 Extremely Dangerous TV Nurse 1 Episode
2001 The Parole Officer Movie TV Interviewer
2002 Barbara TV Wendy 1 Episode
2002 Phoenix Nights TV Fanny 2 episodes
2002 Fat Friends TV Suzanne Ellis 1 Episode
2003 Dream Team TV Lia Smith 1 Episode
2003 EastEnders TV Paula 1 Episode
2003 Sweet Medicine TV Sheena Mason 1 Episode
2003–2005 Mile High TV Janis Steel 37 episodes
2004 The Last Detective TV Pippa Sterling 1 Episode
2004 Murder in Suburbia TV Lisa West 1 Episode
2004 Can't Buy Me Love TV movie Gilly Thwaite
2005, 2011, 2015 Holby City TV Geraldine Flowers / Kate Devis / Lindsay Carroll 3 episodes
2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014 Doctors TV DCI Claire Dawson / Phillipa Grove / Jean Steel / Annie Harris 8 episodes
2007 Casualty TV Fay Balch 1 Episode
2007–2012 Young Dracula TV Mina van Helsing 14 episodes
2009 W.M.D Karen Morgan
2009, 2013 Moving On TV Lisa / Maria 2 episodes
2011–2012 Waterloo Road TV Rosie Matthews 5 episodes
2013 The Mimic TV Naomi 1 Episode
2015 Hetty Feather TV Annie Bottomly 1 Episode

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