Joanna Louise Page appeared mainly in various theater productions during her early career. She started her screen career with a minor role as servant in film ‘Miss Julie’ (1999) and played ‘Dora Spenlow’ in TV drama adaptation of ‘David Copperfield’ (1999).
In 2001, Page appeared in musical-comedy film ‘Very Annie Mary,’ period slasher film ‘From Hell,’ TV adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, ‘The Lost World’ and a lead-role in TV-drama-series ‘The Cazalets.’ She played ‘Just Judy’ in Christmas-themed romantic-comedy drama-film ‘Love Actually’ (2003) and appeared in feature-length TV drama ‘Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill’ (2003).
Next, Page appeared in TV-series ‘Mine All Mine’ (2004), drama-series ‘Making Waves’ (2004), ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ (2005), ‘Gideon’s Daughter’ (2005) and starred in comedy-film ‘Bye Bye Harry’ (2006). Further, she was cast in the title role of ‘Stacey Shipman’ in the TV comedy-show ‘Gavin & Stacey’ (2007-2010, 2019), which brought her recognition and popularity.
Page was seen in TV comedy-drama ‘Love Soup’ (2008) and appeared as herself in reality series ‘Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie’ (2009) and comedy game-show ‘Would I lie to You?’ (2010). She provided voice in ‘Mist: Sheepdog Tales’ (2009), pre-school animation-series ‘Poppy Cat’ (2011), and ‘Q Pootle 5’ (2013-present). She has also provided voice for TV and radio advertisements of ‘Kingsmill,’ ‘Carphone Warehouse,’ ‘Superdrug,’ ‘Sun Bingo’ and others.
Page appeared in an episode of ‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ (2010), supernatural drama-series ‘Bedlam’ (2011), sitcom ‘White Van Man’ (2011), drama series ‘The Syndicate’ (2012) and comedy-series ‘Gates’ (2012). In 2010, she hosted the show ‘My Pet Shame.’ She played female lead in Christmas-comedy film ‘Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger’ (2012), and ‘Queen Elizabeth I’ in a ‘Doctor Who’ episode (2013).
Page further appeared in period-drama series ‘Breathless’ (2013), pilot episode of ‘Home from Home’ (2016), crime-drama series ‘Midsomer Murders’ (2019), comedy-drama series ‘Dial M for Middlesbrough’ (2019). She provided voice for ‘Spring Break with Granddad’ (2017), and ‘Britain’s Parking Hell: Ticket Wars’ (2019). In 2020, she starred in fantasy-adventure film ‘Dolittle’ and comedy-drama film ‘Dream Horse.’
Since 2021, Page has been presenting shopper TV-series ‘Shop Well for Less’ and is co-presenter for TV-program ‘The Pet Show’ (both 2021-present).