Jennie Jacques

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Jennie Jacques
Born (1989-02-28) 28 February 1989 (age 32)
Coventry, West Midlands, England[1]
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present

Jennie Jacques (born 28 February 1989) is an English actress. Her first major role was as Annie Miller in Desperate Romantics (2009), a six-part BBC Two television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that was broadcast in July and August 2009.[2] From 2013–2014 she played the lead role of WPC Gina Dawson on the BBC television series WPC 56. From 2015 to 2019 Jacques has played the recurring role of Saxon Queen Judith on the television series Vikings.

Early life[]

Jacques was born in Walsgrave Hospital and grew up in Coventry, Leamington Spa, and Warwick. She is the eldest of seven children.[3]

Career[]

Jacques played Katie Fielding in the ITV police series The Bill and artists' model Annie Miller in the BBC Two period drama Desperate Romantics (2009). She was cast as Beth in the home invasion urban thriller Cherry Tree Lane and Ree Ree in the futuristic thriller Shank.[4] Jacques has also appeared in Casualty on BBC1, where she played Lily Knowles, the carer of Megan Roach, in the episode "Nice and Easy Does It" broadcast on 7 August 2010.[citation needed]

In 2011, Jacques was featured in the promotional video for the Mason single Boadicea. She also appeared in slasher film Demons Never Die (2011), in which she appeared nude during a sex scene with Robert Sheehan.[citation needed]

Jacques appeared in an episode of Father Brown in 2013, and was then cast as the lead actress in the BBC afternoon series WPC 56, about a woman police constable in the male-dominated world of 1956. Both programmes were made by BBC Birmingham.[citation needed]

Jacques portrays Judith, the fictional daughter of King Aelle, in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Vikings.[5]

In 2015, Jacques played the role of Tash in the ITV sitcom The Delivery Man (2015), which aired for six episodes.[6]

Personal life[]

Jacques is an ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation.[7] In a 2021 interview with The Sunday Times, she opened up about the ME/CFS and post-exertional malaise she developed after coming down with a severe bout of Epstein–Barr virus in early 2019.[8] She has also been an advocate for those living with epilepsy as inspired by her sister.[9]

Jacques is engaged.[10]

Filmography[]

Television roles
Year Show Role Notes
2009 The Bill Katie Fielding Episodes: "Teenage Kicks, Part One & Two"
2009 Desperate Romantics Annie Miller Main role
2010 Lark Rise to Candleford Emily Mullins Episode #3.10
2010 Stanley Park Raggedy Ann Pilot for BBC Three
2010 Casualty Lily Knowles Episode: "Nice and Easy Does It"
2012 Love Life Tilly Television miniseries, 2 episodes
2013 Father Brown Violet Parnassus Episode: "The Wrong Shape"
2013–2014 WPC 56 WPC Gina Dawson Lead role (seasons 1–2), 10 episodes
2015–2019 Vikings Judith Recurring role (seasons 3–5), 29 episodes
2015 The Delivery Man Tash Main role, 6 episodes
2019 London Kills Amber Main role
Film roles
Year Film Role Notes
2010 Shank Ree Ree
2010 Cherry Tree Lane Beth
2011 Demons Never Die Jasmine
2012 Truth or Dare Eleanor Also known in the United States as Truth or Die

References[]

  1. ^ "WPC 56 star: Who needs Hollywood when you've got Brum..." Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Desperate Romantics". desperateromantics.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Coventry actress Jennie Jacques goes back to the 50s for BBC drama WPC 56". Coventry Telegraph. 25 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Film agency review". Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Manolo Cardona Joins Netflix's 'Narcos'; Jennie Jacques In History's 'Vikings'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  6. ^ "The Delivery Man". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Jennie Jacques". Open Medicine Foundation. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  8. ^ O’Neill, Sean (18 August 2021). "Jennie Jacques on living with ME: 'I am a shadow of my former self physically'". The Times. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Viking actress Jennie Jacques discusses the impact of epilepsy". Epilepsy Society. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  10. ^ O'Neill, Sean. "Jennie Jacques on living with ME: 'I am a shadow of my former self physically'". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

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