<P> Froggatt's early TV appearances include Coronation Street (1997--98), Bad Girls (1999), Dinnerladies (1999) and A Touch of Frost (2003). She went on to star in the television films, Danielle Cable: Eye Witness (2003), See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006) and Murder in the Outback (2007), beforewinning the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her leading role in the 2010 film In Our Name . She played Mary Ann Cotton in the 2016 ITV miniseries Dark Angel . </P> <P> Froggatt was born and brought up in the village of Littlebeck in North Yorkshire . Her parents, Ann and Keith Froggatt, having run a corner shop, next started a rare breed sheep farm on a smallholding near Whitby . Froggatt initially joined a drama group in Scarborough and then left her family home at the age of 13 to attend the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire . </P> <P> In 1996, Froggatt made her TV debut in the long - running ITV drama The Bill, and shortly afterwards landed the role of teenage mother Zoe Tattersall in Coronation Street . She left the programme in 1998 when her character was written out . </P> <P> In 2003, Froggatt played the leading role in the controversial one - off drama, Danielle Cable: Eyewitness, based on the true story of a teenage girl who witnessed the murder of her boyfriend in a reputed road rage attack . Whilst researching the role, she met Cable who later contacted her to commend her on her portrayal . The film earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Single Drama . </P>

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