Linzey Cocker


Linzey Louise Cocker is an English actress best known for playing the roles of 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

Cocker went to Wentworth High School in Eccles, Greater Manchester.

Career

In Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cocker's character is the fraternal twin of Ashley Webb, played by actress and
model Sinéad Moynihan. 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 life.
She also appeared in the film Wild Child along with actress Emma Roberts.
She also performed in a BBC drama series, Waterloo Road, playing new pupil Jess Fisher, alongside former Silent Witness actress Amanda Burton who plays her on-screen mother and new headteacher, Karen Fisher.
She also played Sam Swan in a BBC comedy drama White Gold.
In 2020 she played the roll of Marie in the BBC1 drama series “Our Girl” where she played the roll of Georgie Lanes sister and the widow of Fingers.

Filmography

YearTitleRole
2004ConvictionMiriam Payne
2006Drop Dead GorgeousJade Webb
2006ShamelessZadie
2006The Innocence ProjectRhiannan Hayes
2006Northern LightsBrooke Armstrong
2006The StreetLeanne McEvoy
2007City LightsBrooke Armstrong/Sarah Shearer
2010-2011Waterloo RoadJess Fisher
2012LeavingKelly
2014In the FleshHaley
2015The MusketeersJeanne
2016-2020Our Girl Marie Lane
2017Tina and Bobby Kathy Peters
2017–2019White GoldSam Swan