Joanna David (born 17 January, 1947) is a British actress, best known for her television work.
She was born in Lancaster, England. Her first major television role was as Elinor Dashwood in the BBC's 1971 dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility. By far her most memorable performance came in 1978, when she played the heroine of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, opposite Jeremy Brett. It was a role that would be played twenty years later by Emilia Fox, Joanna David's daughter by the actor Edward Fox, whose long-standing partner she is.
On stage, she notably played opposite Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code. She gradually moved on to more mature parts, and appeared as Mrs Gardiner in the BBC's enormously successful 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. She remains one of the UK's most popular actresses.
