British Actresses You Should Know: Jessica Raine

British actress Jessica Raine is likely familiar to many PBS viewers from her roles on period drama Call the Midwife and mystery series Baptiste, but that's certainly not all she's done.

As a matter of fact, she's appeared in everything from trendy contemporary dramas to Agatha Christie mysteries and everything in between. Her role on Midwife certainly helped propel her to popularity, but she deserves recognition for more than just playing Nurse Jenny Lee.

Here are just a few of Raine's best and most notable roles from the past few years.

An Adventure in Space and Time. Released as part of the celebrations surrounding the show’s 50th anniversary, An Adventure in Space and Time is a sort of dramatized Doctor Who biopic that chronicles the story of the show’s creation. Raines plays Verity Lambert, the woman who was the show’s founding producer and one of the primary figures behind why the series exists at all. (Fun fact: Lambert was the BBC’s only female drama producer in 1963, as well as the corporation’s youngest.)

Raines is joined by a cast that includes both Sacha Dhawan and David Bradley, who both themselves went on to play rather significant characters on Doctor Who itself. (The Master and the First Doctor, respectively.)