Linzey Cocker

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| name = Linzey Cocker

| image =

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| birth_name = Linzey Louise Cocker

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|5|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Salford, England, United Kingdom

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2004–2020

| children = 3

| spouse = Adam Tse

}}

Linzey Louise Cocker (born 19 May 1987) is an English actress best known for playing Sam Swan in the hit BBC comedy White Gold starring Ed Westwick and Joe Thomas.

She also played alongside Michelle Keegan as her sister Marie Lane in BBC drama Our Girl, Jade Webb in the BBC Three comedy-drama series Drop Dead Gorgeous, Josie in the 2008 film Wild Child, and Jess Fisher in Waterloo Road.

Early years

Went to Wentworth High School (now Ellesmere Park High School) in Eccles, Greater Manchester.

Career

In Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cocker's character is the fraternal twin of Ashley Webb. Jade, being the popular and charismatic sister, finds it difficult to adjust to her shy sister's rapid success as a model, when Jade has always wanted to be a model herself so when her sister was offered a modeling job it changed their family's life and most of all Jade's life.

She also appeared in the films Wild Child along with actress Emma Roberts and Enemies Closer alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Cocker also performed in a BBC drama series, Waterloo Road, playing new pupil Jess Fisher,{{cite web|url=http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid%3D171 |title=Hamilton Hodell - LINZEY COCKER |accessdate=24 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226001134/http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=171 |archivedate=26 February 2009 }} alongside former Silent Witness actress Amanda Burton who plays her on-screen mother and new headteacher, Karen Fisher.{{cite web|title=Amanda Burton returns to BBC One in Waterloo Road|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/10_october/16/waterloo.shtml|website=BBC Press Office|publisher=BBC|date=16 October 2009}}

Cocker also played Sam Swan in a BBC comedy drama White Gold.{{cite news|last1=Frost|first1=Caroline|title='White Gold' Cast: All The Familiar Faces From BBC Two's Brand New Comedy Drama|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-gold-cast-ed-westwick-joe-thomas_uk_59256875e4b0ec129d30cedb |work=Huffington Post|date=24 May 2017}}

In 2016, she played the role of Marie in the BBC One drama series Our Girl, where she played the role of Georgie Lane's sister and later the wife/widow of Fingers. She played the role until series end in 2020.

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ Film
Year ! Title ! Role
2008 \| Clash of the Santas \| Brooke
2008 \| Wild Child \| Josie
2008 \| Is Anybody There? \| Tanya
2009 \| Salvage \| Jodie
2010 \| 4.3.2.1. \| Gwen
2010 \| McQueen \| Becky
2013 \| Enemies Closer \| Kayla

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Film

Year

! Title

! Role

2008

| Clash of the Santas

| Brooke

2008

| Wild Child

| Josie

2008

| Is Anybody There?

| Tanya

2009

| Salvage

| Jodie

2010

| 4.3.2.1.

| Gwen

2010

| McQueen

| Becky

2013

| Enemies Closer

| Kayla

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ Television
Year !Title !Role
2004 \| Conviction \| Miriam Payne
2006 \| Drop Dead Gorgeous \| Jade Webb
2006 \| Shameless \| Zadie
2006 \| The Innocence Project \| Rhiannan Hayes
2006 \| Northern Lights \| Brooke Armstrong
2006 \| The Street \| Leanne McEvoy
2007 \| City Lights \| Brooke Armstrong/Sarah Shearer
2010–2011 \| Waterloo Road \| Jess Fisher
2012 \| Leaving \| Kelly
2014 \| In the Flesh \| Haley
2015 \| The Musketeers \| Jeanne (episode 2.5 "The Return")
2016–2020 \| Our Girl \| Marie Lane
2017 \| Tina and Bobby (mini-series) \| Kathy Peters
2017–2019 \| White Gold \| Sam Swan

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Television

Year

!Title

!Role

2004

| Conviction

| Miriam Payne

2006

| Drop Dead Gorgeous

| Jade Webb

2006