JEMMA
REDGRAVE

Jemma Redgrave is an English actor born in London on 14 January 1965. Her career spans stage, film and television, with roles in period drama, medical series and science fiction.

On film, Redgrave played Evie Wilcox in Howards End (1992), the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel. Her screen work also includes Love & Friendship and The Beekeeper.

Redgrave led the period television drama Bramwell as Dr Eleanor Bramwell, a woman practising medicine in Victorian London. The series ran for four seasons and placed the physician’s professional challenges at the centre of its stories.

In Doctor Who she plays Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, a senior figure at UNIT who works with the Doctor when threats reach Earth. Redgrave has returned to the character across different eras of the long-running series.

Her television roles also include Bernie Wolfe in Holby City. Across medical and science-fiction stories, these characters often face decisions that affect others, while the settings give Redgrave room to work in different dramatic registers.