Jessica Raine

Personal context

Summary

Jessica Raine is an English actor known for Call the Midwife, Wolf Hall, Line of Duty and Patrick Melrose. Her screen work spans period drama, crime and contemporary roles. She has spoken repeatedly about gender stereotypes and the shortage of well-written roles for women, and criticized crime dramas’ depictions of women being abused. She joined a 2015 festival panel on diversity and has described feminism as important to her; no public record of party campaigning or racial or LGBTQ advocacy is established.