Hanako footman biography

Hanako Footman

British actress

Hanako Footman

Born

Wimbledon, London, England

Occupation(s)Actress, writer
Years active2011–present

Hanako Footman is a British-Japanese[citation needed] actress and writer.

She starred in the BBC Two sitcom Defending the Guilty (2018–2019).

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Her debut novel Mongrel was published in 2024.

Early life and education

Hanako Footman was born to a Japanese mother and an English-Irish father[1] and grew up in Wimbledon, South London.[2] She has two sisters; her sister Erika is a musician.[3]

Footman took a year-long foundation course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).[3]

Career

Acting

Footman made her television debut as Isabella in an episode of the 2012 ITV miniseries The Town.

She starred in the 2015 production of Thyestes at the Courtyard Theatre, London and Modern Love, which was put on in 2016 at the Pleasance in London fo Joanna Scanlan XAQY