Joanna Horton

Acting

Joanna Horton

Born

1980-03-31 (46)

Place of birth

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Known for

Acting

Credits

18 titles

Joanna Horton is an English actress, notable for her stage and television work, including an episode of Robin Hood (series 1 episode 4), Father Brown, Spooks and Foyle's War. In 2009, Horton played Hannah in Days of Significance, written by Roy Williams, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and played Barbara in The Gods Weep, written by Dennis Kelly, in 2010. In the same year, Horton also played Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard, written by Anton Chekhov, at the Birmingham Rep, and Anna in Town, written by D.C. Moore, at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton. She appeared as Deb in an adaptation of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Belongings at Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios in 2011. During…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

Series credits

Father Brown poster
7.7

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown

2013

Vera poster
7.4

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

2011

Spooks poster
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Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Spooks

2002

Endeavour poster
8.1

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

Endeavour

2013

Foyle's War poster
7.9

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Foyle's War

2002

Professor T poster
7.3

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.

Professor T

2021

Patience poster
7.2

Patience Evans works in the Criminal Records Office in the city of York. She views the world in a unique way because she has a special gift – she is autistic. Patience has a special interest in solving puzzles and a secret fascination and talent for criminology—her unique perspective allows her to connect the dots through clues in a way others simply cannot. Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf recognizes her talents and takes her under her wing. Patience helps the police tackle a series of challenging cases by bringing her unique insight to crimefighting.

Patience

2025

Treason poster
6.8

An MI6 deputy's bright future takes a sharp turn after a reunion with a Russian spy forces him to question his entire life.

Treason

2022

Falling poster
2.2

A nun and priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.

Falling

2026

Partners in Crime poster
7.1

Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war conspiracy. Tuppence is a woman who sees adventure round every corner, throwing herself head first into every mystery with passion and fervour, determined to get to the truth no matter what it takes, much to the dismay of her more cautious husband Tommy.

Partners in Crime

2015

Midnight Man poster
5.2

Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?

Midnight Man

2008