Jo Joyner
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Jo Joyner (born 1978) is an English actress who is currently best known for her role as Tanya Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, in which she has appeared since June 2006. She also played Beth in the nursing drama No Angels (Channel 4, 2004–06) and Lynda Moss, a contestant in a futuristic Big Brother contest, in two episodes of Doctor Who (Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, BBC One, June 2005).
Joyner has also appeared in the feature-length drama Night Flight, and on television in Fat Friends, Silent Witness, Clocking Off, the 2004 BBC adaptation of North and South and as one of the stars of the Five comedy sketch show Swinging (2005–date). For her performances in the latter Joyner won a Rose d'Or international award for Best Female Comedy Performer in 2006.
She also featured briefly in a sub-plot of the two-part drama The Second Coming (ITV1, 2003). Her character has a bigger role in cut scenes that feature as extras on the DVD.
While at Stratford-Upon-Avon college, Joyner played a male role in Brendan Behan's play The Hostage.
[edit] Personal life
Joyner lives with actor Neil Madden, whom she met in the summer of 2002. She was born in Essex but grew up in the Midlands.
[edit] External links
- Jo Joyner at the Internet Movie Database
