Suranne Jones Bio: Husband, Age, Parents, Net Worth, Height, Children, Movies, Family

Suranne Jones is an English actress and producer, born Sarah Ann Jones on 27 August 1978 in Chadderton, Greater Manchester.

She adopted her professional name from her great-grandmother, after being told Sarah Anne was already registered with the actors’ union Equity.

Jones is known for her frequent collaborations with screenwriter Sally Wainwright, and rose to prominence playing Karen McDonald on Coronation Street between 2000 and 2004. After leaving the soap, she built a reputation for playing complex, formidable women in shows including Vincent, Unforgiven, and Scott & Bailey, the detective drama she co-created with Sally Lindsay.

She earned wide acclaim and a BAFTA for playing Gemma Foster in Doctor Foster, and later starred as 19th-century diarist Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack, on which she also served as executive producer. Her subsequent credits include Save Me, Vigil, and Maryland, alongside the 2025 Netflix thriller Hostage.

On stage, Jones has appeared in productions including A Few Good Men, Blithe Spirit, Top Girls, Beautiful Thing, Orlando, and Frozen.

She is married to magazine editor Laurence Akers, whose surname she also carries as Sarah Ann Akers, and with whom she has one son.

Suranne Jones
Wiki Facts & About Data
Real Name:	Sarah Anne Jones-Akers
Stage Name:	Suranne Jones
Born:	27 August 1978 (age 47 years old)
Place of Birth:	Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
Nationality:	British
Ethnicity:	British (English)
Education:	Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School; BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts, Oldham Theatre Workshop
Height:	5 ft 9 in / 175 cm
Religion:	Roman Catholic
Parents:	Chris Jones, Jenny Jones
Siblings:	Gary Jones
Spouse:	Laurence Akers (m. 2015)
Relationship:	Simon Gregson, Chris Gascoyne, Jim Phelan
Children:	1
Occupation:	Actress, Producer
Net Worth:	$1 million-$5 million

Early Life & Education

Suranne Jones was born on 27 August 1978 in Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, under her birth name Sarah Anne Jones. Her zodiac sign is Virgo. She is of British (English) ethnicity and was raised in a working-class Catholic household.

Her father, Chris Jones, was an engineer who later worked at a local brewery, and her mother, Jenny Jones, was a secretary. S

he has one older brother, Gary Jones, born in 1975. The family lived on Foxdenton Lane in Chadderton, in a house bordered by farmland. It was her local priest who suggested she be christened Sarah Anne rather than Suranne, the name her father wanted after her great-grandmother, on the grounds that Suranne was not “a proper name.”

Jones was educated at Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School in Middleton, Greater Manchester. She has spoken of being bullied during her school years and withdrawing into herself as a result.

Rather than pursuing a conventional university path, she joined the Oldham Theatre Workshop, where she earned a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts, a route she has said cannot be compared to formal drama school training.

Career

Suranne Jones began her acting career at the age of eight, appearing on stage in a production of Wait Until Dark as Gloria.

She joined the actors’ union Equity as a teenager and started performing professionally under the stage name Suranne. Her screen debut came in April 1997 with a minor role as Mandy Phillips in Coronation Street, and she returned to the soap in 2000 in the more prominent role of Karen McDonald, a part she played for four years before leaving in 2004 to avoid being typecast.

Following her departure from Coronation Street, Jones moved into theatre and drama television, winning a Theatregoers’ Choice Award for her performance in A Few Good Men in the West End. She went on to star in Vincent opposite Ray Winstone, played a sex therapist in Strictly Confidential, and appeared as a doctor in Harley Street.

Her portrayal of a woman freshly released from prison in Unforgiven drew significant critical acclaim, as did her subsequent roles in Five Days and Single Father.

In 2011, Jones co-created and starred in Scott & Bailey alongside Sally Lindsay, playing Detective Constable Rachel Bailey opposite Lesley Sharp across five series. That same year, she also appeared as a human incarnation of the TARDIS in an episode of Doctor Who, a performance that won her Best Supporting Actress in a readers’ poll for Doctor Who Magazine.

Her career reached new heights in 2015 with Doctor Foster, in which she played Gemma Foster, a doctor who discovers her husband’s affair. The role earned her a BAFTA Television Award and turned the series into an international hit. She followed this with the drama Save Me and a supporting role in the ITV adaptation of Vanity Fair.

Jones then took on her most acclaimed role to date, playing 19th-century diarist Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack, a series she also executive produced across its two seasons for BBC and HBO, earning her a further BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. She has since starred in Vigil as DCI Amy Silva, in Maryland as Becca Hall, and in the 2025 Netflix thriller Hostage as Abigail Dalton.

She also fronted the documentary series Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials and appeared in the 2025 comedy-drama Film Club.

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Personal Life

Suranne Jones is currently 47 years old, having been born on 27 August 1978.

Jones is married to Laurence Akers, a freelance scriptwriter and former magazine editor. The couple met in 2013 at the wedding of Jones’s close friend Sally Lindsay to musician Steve White, and began dating shortly after.

They married on 4 August 2015 following roughly a year together, and now live in Muswell Hill, London. The couple welcomed their first and only child, a son, in March 2016. His name has not been made public.

Before her marriage, Jones was reportedly linked to Coronation Street co-stars Simon Gregson and Chris Gascoyne, and was previously engaged to Jim Phelan before the relationship ended. These earlier relationships are reported by celebrity biography sites rather than confirmed in major outlets, so they should be treated as unconfirmed.

Reported figures for Jones’s height vary by source, ranging from 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) to 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), with 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) appearing most frequently. No single figure is confirmed on record.

Net Worth

Suranne Jones has an estimated net worth of $1 million to $5 million.

Her wealth comes primarily from decades of leading television roles, including Coronation Street, Doctor Foster, Scott & Bailey, and Gentleman Jack, along with her expanding work as an executive producer on projects such as Gentleman Jack, Maryland, and Hostage.

Filmography

TV Shows

• Coronation Street (1997, 2000-2004) as Mandy Phillips, then Karen McDonald
• Vincent (2005-2006)
• Strictly Confidential (2006)
• Five Days (2007)
• Harley Street (2008) as Dr. Martha Elliot
• Unforgiven (2009) as Ruth Slater
• Single Father
• Scott & Bailey (2011-2016) as Rachel Bailey, co-creator
• Doctor Who (2011), guest role as the TARDIS
• Touch of Cloth
• The Crimson Field
• Doctor Foster (2015-2017) as Gemma Foster
• Save Me (2018)
• Vanity Fair (2018) as Miss Pinkerton
• Gentleman Jack (2019-2022) as Anne Lister, also executive producer
• Vigil (2021-present) as DCI Amy Silva
• Maryland (2023) as Becca Hall
• Film Club (2025) as Suz
• Frauds (2025) as Bert
• Hostage (2025) as Abigail Dalton

Stage

• A Few Good Men (2005) as Lt. Cdr. Joanne Galloway
• Blithe Spirit (2009)
• Top Girls (2011)
• Beautiful Thing (2013)
• Orlando (2014)
• Frozen (2018)

Other Appearances

• The Masked Singer (2020), studio panellist
• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (2019), guest
• Life and Birth (2020), narrator
• Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials (2024), presenter
• Bluey Book Reads (2024)

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