Born: 20th May 1982 (as Jessica Helen Lloyd)
Episodes Broadcast: 2013

Herefordshire-born Jessica Lloyd became interested in acting at the age of thirteen years, prompted by her father's involvement in amateur dramatics. She studied theatre at Hereford College of Arts and the University of the West of England, Bristol. Lloyd next sought a place in drama school, only to find all of her applications rejected. She persevered and, after a year in Thailand teaching English as a second language, she was accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Following her graduation in 2008, Lloyd was quickly cast in Harper Regan and Gethsemane at the National Theatre; she adopted the stage name “Jessica Raine”. Her first television role came in a 2009 episode of Garrow's Law.

In 2010, Raine made her movie debut in Russell Crowe's version of Robin Hood. Two years later, she appeared in the thriller The Woman In Black starring Daniel Radcliffe. But 2012 was more notable because it saw Raine become one of the leads for the first season of the historical drama Call The Midwife, which quickly catapulted her to national prominence. During pauses in the show's production, she took not one but two roles related to Doctor Who. First, Raine was Seventies psychic Emma Grayling in 2013's eerie Hide, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. Later that year, she played Doctor Who's original producer, Verity Lambert, in the docudrama An Adventure In Space And Time, which was broadcast as part of the programme's fiftieth-anniversary celebrations. 2013 was also the year that Raine began a relationship with actor Tom Goodman-Hill, whom she had met when they were castmates in the play Earthquakes In London during 2010. They would marry in 2015, and have a son in 2019. Goodman-Hill also had a Doctor Who appearance to his name, as murder suspect Reverend Golightly in 2008's The Unicorn And The Wasp.

Despite her character's popularity, Raine became eager for new challenges and she left Call The Midwife after its third season in 2014. She worked steadily for the remainder of the decade, on the likes of Partners In Crime, Jericho, The Last Post and Patrick Melrose. Occasional movie roles included the comedy-drama Benjamin. Amongst Raine's projects during the Twenties were Becoming Elizabeth and The Devil's Hour.