Jessica Raine

Jessica Raine is an English actress. She is best known for playing midwife Jenny Lee in the first three series of BBC One drama Call the Midwife.

Raine was born in Eardisley, Herefordshire, where she was raised on her fathers farm. She is the younger of two daughters of farmer Allan Lloyd , and his wife Sue, who trained as a dancer but then worked as a nurse. Educated in Kington, Herefordshire, she wanted to be an actress from the age of 13, as her father starred in amateur dramatics with the Eardisley Little Theatre. In sixth form she studied theatre at ALevel and a BTEC in photography at Hereford College of Arts and then studied drama and cultural studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Turned down on graduation to enter every drama school that she applied to, Raine went to Thailand and taught English as a second language.

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