In 2005, while auditioning for drama school, Coleman won the role of Jasmine Thomas in "Emmerdale Farm". In the 2007 British Soap Opera Awards, she was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award, in the 2006 National Television Awards, she was nominated for the Most Popular Newcomer Award
, and in the 2009 British Soap Opera Awards, she was nominated for the Best Actress , Nominated for the Sexiest Woman Award and the Best Drama Performance Award, and was also nominated for the TV Choice Award for Best Actress. In May 2009, Coleman announced that he would join the BBC TV series "New White-collar Workers on the Road in Waterloo" to play the role of "hard girl" Lindsay James
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In December 2010, it was announced that Coleman would play Susan Brown in " Room at the Top " adapted from John Blaine's novel on BBC Channel 4
. The show was originally intended to be aired in April 2011, but it was cancelled due to a copyright dispute between the production company and Bryan. The dispute was resolved in 2012, and the TV series finally aired on September 26 and 27, 2012.
In 2011, she made her debut in " The First Avenger : The First Avenger ". In the same year, she also played Anne Desmond in the four-episode miniseries " Titanic " of ITV . She described this role as a "cheeky Londoner" and "Eliza Dolittle on board (music) A fictional character in the play " My Fair Lady ")"
Coleman provided the voice for Melia in the 2011 video game " Xenoblade Chronicles ". In 2012, Coleman starred Rosie in Stephen Polyakov’s original TV series " Dancing on the Edge ", which tells the fate of a black jazz band in the 1930s, in 2013 2 It was broadcast on BBC 2. She also played Lydia Wickham
who suddenly visited Pemberley Manor in " Death Comes to Pemberley " . The series has three episodes and was broadcast by BBC 1 during Christmas 2013
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On March 21, 2012, producer Steven Moffat confirmed at a press conference that Coleman would play the companion of the 11th doctor ( played by Matthew Robert Smith ) in " Doctor Who "
. Moffat chose her to play this role because her partner with Doctor Smith is the most sparkling and can speak faster than him. Interestingly, for the sake of confidentiality, when she secretly auditioned for this role, she had to say that she was auditioning for "Men on Waves" (the palindrome of "Woman Seven", which foreshadows that she will appear in this for the first time. In the seventh season of the show)
Although Coleman initially announced that she would only appear as a companion to the Christmas special, she unexpectedly appeared in the first episode of the seventh season "Oswin Oswald" on September 1, 2012. Oswald was a guest role and died at the end of the episode
. Subsequently, in the Christmas special "Snowman", Coleman played a series of roles. She was a female tutor of the Victorian era and also a barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald, just like Oswin Oswin Oswald, she Die at the end of this episode. Later, Coleman played a third role, a contemporary London resident named Clara Oswald. From "The Bell of Saint John", she began to be the resident companion of the eleventh Ph.D. including the twelfth Ph.D. who was later played by Peter Dougan Capaldi . After the 2014 Christmas special "The Last Christmas", Coleman continued to play the role of Clara in the ninth season.
However, the ninth season is her last season in " Doctor Who " because Coleman decided to leave the show and play the Queen Victoria in the quarterly series " Victoria " produced by ITV .
In 2016, Coleman starred in ITV's eight-episode series " Victoria ", in which she played the Queen of England and Queen of India, Victoria. The actress admitted that she did not fully understand the history of the Victorian era , but studied the role. In an interview with BBC Radio 4 -Woman'sHour, Coleman expressed her admiration for the queen.
She believes that this role means that she can break the fixed image of the northern working class that was given in the past in "Emmerdale Farm". The first season of " Victoria " premiered on ITV on August 28, 2016.
Because of its good ratings, ITV renewed the second season of " Victoria " and premiered on August 27, 2017.