Joanne Mitchell

Actress Joanne Mitchell appeared on Coronation Street as an unnamed Sonographer who performed an ultrasound scan on a heavily-pregnant Maria Connor in April 2009.

Having completed a three year course at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1997, she has gained experience in TV and film, theatre and radio. Her credits include roles in Licence to Live, Casualty, Holding On, Bad Girls, Heartbeat, Holby City, Doctors, A Touch of Frost, Emmerdale, Waterloo Road, Síol and Justice.

On the other side of the camera she was credited as producer on films entitled Inbred and Magpie, and as starring in, writing and producing the zombie film Bad Dawn alongside husband Dominic Brunt - best known for the long-running role of vet Paddy Kirk in Emmerdale.