Suranne Jones

Suranne Jones BIO

Suranne Jones (born Sarah Anne Jones on January 2, 1979) is an English actress. She first shot to fame when she played Karen McDonald (née Phillips) in ITV1's Coronation Street for four years. Since leaving Coronation Street she has appeared in various ITV drama's including Vincent and Strictly Confidential.

She was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England and attended a public drama club known as 'Oldham Theatre Workshop', Antony Cotton who plays Sean Tully on Coronation Street also attended the club.

Before playing Karen McDonald, Jones had a very small role in Coronation Street in April 1997 as Mandy Phillips, a girlfriend of Chris Collins. In May 2004 it was announced that she was to quit the show in November of that year after four years of playing the role. Jones, who had just won the best actress award at the British Soap Awards left to "explore other roles" with Granada Television, the company that produces Coronation Street.

In Autumn 2005 she starred in an ITV's detective drama series Vincent, with Ray Winstone in the title role, this was Jones' first acting role since leaving Coronation Street the previous year. In the same year she starred on the West End stage in A Few Good Men with US film actor Rob Lowe.

In 2006 Suranne Jones starred as Snow White in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Manchester Opera House. She starred alongside Justin Moorhouse and John Savident, along with the all star dwarves, one being Warwick Davis. In 2006 Jones also starred in an ITV drama series Strictly Confidential in which she played a bisexual married sex therapist named Linda Nelson who has more than a few close encounters with her attractive brother-in-law Greg, played by Tristan Gemmill.

On New Year's Day 2007, Jones starred in a Yorkshire and London based black comedy, Dead Clever with Helen Baxendale and Dean Lennox Kelly on ITV 1. Jones will also feature in the fourth series of Shameless which will begin screening on Channel 4 on the 9th January 2007.

Jones has most recently been seen as a guest reporter on the long-running BBC travel programme Holiday alongside Anthony Crank and special guest on an edition of the BBC2 series A taste of my life with Nigel Slater which paid tribute to her friend, John Barrowman. In Autumn 2007, Jones toured the UK extensively in the premiere stage run of the film Terms of Endearment opposite Linda Gray and she has recently appeared in a number of plays for BBC Radio 4.

Bra Size: 32FF Bustline