Joanna Bacon

Joanna Bacon was a London-born character actress, initially trained as a ballet dancer under Leo Kersley and Janet Sinclair. She briefly worked for the Longman Publishing Company in Harlow, Essex, but terminated her job to commence drama studies at the Actor's Institute in London and with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York. Jo made her stage debut as an original member of the newly established Harlow Theatre Company in 1978. Her subsequent theatrical career included stints with the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster, the Sheffield Crucible, the National Theatre and the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon.