statement<\/a>. \u201cMany of our members will remember Jo and her force of nature, her wit, her fun, her passion and her natural ability as an actor. She became a member of Harlow Theatre Company at its inception in 1978. She appeared in many plays in iconic roles such as Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Maddie in Dirty Linen and Beverly in Abigail\u2019s Party along with reviews, musicals and pantomimes all at the Harlow Playhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tBacon had a lengthy list of UK television credits, including EastEnders, Casualty, Prime Suspect, The Bill, Pie in the Sky, Little Britain, A Touch of Frost and New Tricks, but she\u2019s probably best known for her role in Love, Actually.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn that film, Bacon appeared in a memorable scene in which Hugh Grant\u2019s Prime Minister character knocks on her door when he comes calling on the character Natalie, daughter of Bacon\u2019s character. <\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to the Harlow Theatre Company, Bacon\u2019s many UK stage credits include Nell Dunn\u2019s Steaming at The Dukes Theatre in Lancaster and roles at Hampstead Theatre, The Sheffield Crucible, Stratford East and the National Theatre. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cShe popped up on our televisions many times in various drama series,\u201d the theater company said in the statement. \u201cHer most notable role lately was as Jackie in four series of Breeders and as Phylis in Moonflower Murders with Lesley Manville. Her next job was to be a character in Sharon Morgan\u2019s next series Mandy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cJo will be sadly missed and fondly remembered,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cShe continued to support HTC attending many of our productions. She would settle herself in the front row with a notebook and watched with a critical eye and her passion for theatre. She never forgot to praise our work. Thank you, Jo. RIP Darling!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joanna \u201cJo\u201d Bacon, the British actor who portrayed the mother of Martine McCutcheon\u2019s Natalie in the 2003 film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,2763,2277,2285,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-joanna-bacon","11":"tag-love-actually","12":"tag-obituary","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}