Joanne is a graduate of Rose Bruford College in London and is currently the face of VABYSMO in the US.

Although born in England she calls Scotland home and has lived there for over 50 years. She has bases in London, Oxford and Edinburgh. She's also looking to work further afield and is very keen to look at opportunities worldwide.

After a career break she returned to acting 8 years ago.

Recent credits include VABYSMO a major US pharmaceutical media campaign across all mediums (first flight April 2023), Saving Christmas Spirit, feature film US/UK and directed by Wendy Faraone (released December 2022), Hello Muscles, short film (UK) directed by Marnie Baxter, ScotGov/NHS 'Roll up your Sleeves" vaccination campaign - UK/all media January 2021, King Duncan in an all female Macbeth directed by TSMGO Robert Myles 2020, Royal Bank of Scotland fraud awareness, voice over, The First Noelle film, US/UK-directed by Wendy Faraone 2019.

In April 2023 she attended a Masterclass with Csting Directors Frank Moiselle, Cassandra Han and Nathalie Cheron. She's also done a number of workshops and courses including a week long intensive course with legendary director Mike Alfreds,  American voice and dialect coach Rebecca Gausnell and most recently she worked with actor and director David Goodall on a cold read/textual analysis workshop.