Joanna Lockwood is an Australian actress who has played regular roles in various television series. After completing a brief stint in the closing episodes of soap opera Number 96 in 1977, she played the ongoing lead role of police officer's wife and former stripper Valerie Johnson in police drama series Cop Shop, which began on-air in late 1977. After leaving that series she played short-term on-going roles in soap opera Sons and Daughters in the mid-1980s and E Street in 1993.