Joanne Thomson

Joanne Thomson is an Actor, Writer and Director from Glasgow. Since graduating with a BA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she has worked extensively across the UK as an actor and has directed internationally award-winning theatre. Her theatre credits as an actor include work with the National Theatre of Scotland, Bristol Old Vic, Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, Royal Lyceum, Traverse, and the legendary Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.

Joanne has recently wrapped on Season 6 of OUTLANDER playing new recurring character Amy McCallum. She appeared as Detective Sergeant Lisa Harvey in BBC One’s BAFTA-nominated drama THE VICTIM and starred as real-life suffragette Mary Leigh in BBC’s prime-time drama THE SUFFRAGETTES which won a BAFTA in 2019. Her performance in ITV’s BAFTA-nominated IN PLAIN SIGHT also won her 2 Best Actress nominations at the IARA awards. In 2019, she was selected as a BAFTA Los Angeles Newcomer and was recently chosen as one of Glasgow Film Festival’s New Talent participants. Her writing has placed in several Screencraft competitions, made the BBC Writer’s Room Top 2% List, SotR & Sister’s Commendation List and won WWFC’s LA Pilot Accelerator in association with Netflix, HBO & Blumhouse. Her debut film, which she will also co-direct, was recently shortlisted for BFI funding and will go into production in 2023.