Yasmin Bannerman

Yasmin Bannerman
Born	1972 (age 51–52) Gloucester, England
Other names	Yasmine Bannerman
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1993–present

Yasmin Bannerman (born 1972) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucestershire and attended the Rose Bruford College in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as Hollyoaks, Cold Feet, Merseybeat and Doctor Who, and in the films Maybe Baby and Killing Me Softly.

Background

Yasmin Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucester, where she attended St Peter's Roman Catholic School. She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading. She dropped out after a year to attend the Rose Bruford College in London, graduating in 1993.

Career

Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of Crown Prosecutor. Shortly afterwards she was cast as Maddie Parker in Channel 4's soap opera Hollyoaks. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in Red Dwarf— in a scene that took a day to shoot - and a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by Robert Bathurst).

In the same year she appeared in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in Queen of Swords, In Deep, Holby City, Life on Mars, and an eight-episode stint in Merseybeat. In 2005 she played Jabe (an alien that resembles a tree) in the second episode of BBC Wales' revival of Doctor Who. Her audition was "shrouded in secrecy" and the part required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove. Further involvement in the Doctor Who franchise includes guest roles in the audio dramas The Bride of Peladon and The Fourth Wall, and a part in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie".

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1995	Crown Prosecutor	Marion Hearn	1 episode (Series 1, Episode 4)
	Hollyoaks	Maddie Parker	Original cast member (1995–1997)
1999	Red Dwarf	First Ground Controller	1 episode ("Back in the Red, Part 3")
2000	Happy Birthday Shakespeare	Vanessa
	Maybe Baby	Melinda
	Cold Feet	Jessica Barnes	5 episodes (Series 3, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7)
2001	Queen of Swords	Agatha	1 episode ("Runaways")
	In Deep	Toni Carr	1 episode ("Jekylls, Part 1")
2002	Holby City	Rebecca Arrowsmith	1 episode ("Hello Goodbye")
	Killing Me Softly	Joanna
	Merseybeat	Blue McCormack	Main cast member
2005	Doctor Who	Jabe	1 episode ("The End of the World")
	55 Degrees North	Jade	2 episodes (Series 1, Episodes 7 and 8)
2006	New Street Law	Elaine Warren	1 episode (Series 1, Episode 8)
	Torchwood	Swanson	1 episode ("They Keep Killing Suzie")
2007	Life on Mars	Eve Olawi	1 episode (Series 2, Episode 1)
	Life Line	Ruth
2009	Casualty	Kathy	1 episode ("Who Do You Think You Are?")

External links

• Yasmin Bannerman at the Internet Movie Database