Emma Pierson

Emma Jane Pierson born 30 April 1981 is an English actress Her appearances in television programmes include the role of Anna ThorntonWilton in the BBC television drama Hotel Babylon and SunTrap Days Like These Beast I Saw You Charles II The Power and The Passion The Worst Week of My Life Bloodlines Coupling Time Gentlemen Please Dead Boss and Killing Eve The daughter of a nurse and a Royal Navy submariner Pierson was born Emma Jane Pierson on 30 April 1981 in Plymouth Devon Her father Charles was stationed at Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde where Emma spent the first four years of her life When she was in her teens Pierson lived with her parents and three siblings in North Bradley near Trowbridge Wiltshire attending Grittleton House School and then later St Laurence School in nearby Bradford on Avon where she began taking acting lessons After leaving school in 1997 Pierson performed in amateur productions with the North Bradley players appearing in a number of plays including Chekhovs Uncle Vanya Pierson gained the role of Becky Radcliffe in the BBC childrens drama series Grange Hill while studying law at the City of Bath College After leaving Grange Hill Pierson took on the role of Jackie Burgett in Days Like These an ITV sitcom set in Luton and adapted from the American comedy series That 70s Show However Days Like These proved unsuccessful and the series was cancelled after only ten of its thirteen episodes were aired Pierson has continued to appear in comedy series including various episodes of the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller Beast with Alexander Armstrong and The Worst Week of My Life with Ben Miller In 2002 following the departure from the series of Julia Sawalha Pierson played new character student barmaid Connie in the second series of sitcom Time Gentlemen Please written by Al Murray and Richard Herring and appeared in an episode of the sitcom Coupling