Jennie Jacques
{{Short description|British actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2017}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jennie Jacques
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|2|28}}
| birth_place = Coventry, West Midlands, England{{cite web|title=WPC 56 star: Who needs Hollywood when you've got Brum....|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/wpc-56-star-jennie-jacques-6664146|website=Birmingham Mail|date=4 February 2014 |access-date=27 February 2015}}
| other_names =
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2009–present
}}
Jennie Jacques (born 28 February 1989) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC Two drama Desperate Romantics (2009),{{cite web|url=http://desperateromantics.co.uk/|title=Desperate Romantics|work=desperateromantics.co.uk|access-date=17 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419092330/http://desperateromantics.co.uk/|archive-date=19 April 2010|url-status=dead}} the police procedural WPC 56 (2013–2014), and the History Channel series Vikings (2015–2019).
Early life
Jacques was born in Walsgrave Hospital and grew up in Coventry and Leamington Spa, West Midlands, and Warwick, Warwickshire. She is the eldest of seven children.{{cite web|url=http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-actress-jennie-jacques-goes-3013678|title=Coventry actress Jennie Jacques goes back to the 50s for BBC drama WPC 56|publisher=Coventry Telegraph|date=25 April 2013}}
Career
Jacques made her television debut as Katie Fielding in an episode of the ITV police series The Bill. Her first major was as artists' model Annie Miller in the six-part BBC Two period drama Desperate Romantics (2009) about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Jacques made her feature film debut as Beth in the urban thriller Cherry Tree Lane and Ree Ree in the futuristic thriller Shank.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebwhagency.co.uk/s1te/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=44 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009014412/http://www.thebwhagency.co.uk/s1te/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=44 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-09 |title=Film agency review |access-date=2009-08-15 }} Jacques has also appeared in Casualty on BBC One, 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|date=June 2018}}
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|date=June 2018}} 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|date=June 2018}}
Jacques portrays Judith, the fictional daughter of King Aelle, in the third through the fifth seasons of Vikings (2014–2019).{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2014/06/manolo-cardona-joins-netflixs-narcos-jennie-jacques-in-historys-vikings-792924/ |title=Manolo Cardona Joins Netflix's 'Narcos'; Jennie Jacques In History's 'Vikings' |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=2 October 2014}} In 2015, she played the role of Tash in the ITV sitcom The Delivery Man (2015), which aired for six episodes.{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/the_delivery_man/details/|title=The Delivery Man|work=comedy.co.uk|access-date=17 April 2015|archive-date=19 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419150726/http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/the_delivery_man/details|url-status=dead}} In 2019, Jacques starred in the first series of the drama series London Kills, playing a homeless witness named Amber Saunders.{{cite web |first=Mark|last=Perigard |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/27/london/ |title='London Kills' delivers bodies and little else |work=Boston Herald |date=27 February 2019 |access-date=13 March 2022}}
Personal life
Jacques is an ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.omf.ngo/people/jennie-jacques/|title=Jennie Jacques|website=Open Medicine Foundation|access-date=22 October 2021}} 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. She had to put her career "on hold" as her condition affected her mobility. She has also been an advocate for those living with epilepsy as inspired by her sister.{{Cite web|url=https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/personalstories/viking-actress-jennie-jacques-epilepsy|title=Viking actress Jennie Jacques discusses the impact of epilepsy|website=Epilepsy Society|date=15 March 2020 |access-date=22 October 2021}}
In 2021, Jacques was engaged.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/jennie-jacques-on-living-with-me-i-am-a-shadow-of-my-former-self-physically-z7plw7nnx|title=Jennie Jacques on living with ME: 'I am a shadow of my former self physically'|journal=The Sunday Times|first=Sean|last=O'Neill|date=17 August 2021 |access-date=22 October 2021}} Already in 2020 she has stated on then Twitter that she had a husband.https://x.com/JennieJacques1/status/1266391680808296448 In a now deleted Instagram post she stated she had been married for a year.
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
|+ Film roles |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2010
| Shank | Ree Ree | |
| 2010
| Nocturn | Nina | Short film |
| 2010
| Beth | |
| 2011
| Jasmine |
| 2012
| Eleanor | also known as Truth or Die in the United States |
| class="wikitable"
|+ Television roles |
| Year
! Show ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2009
| The Bill | Katie Fielding | Episodes: "Teenage Kicks, Part One & Two" |
| 2009
| Main role |
| 2010
| Emily Mullins | Episode #3.10 |
| 2010
| Raggedy Ann | Pilot for BBC Three |
| 2010
| Casualty | Lily Knowles | Episode: "Nice and Easy Does It" |
| 2012
| Tilly | Television miniseries |
| 2013
| Violet Parnassus | Episode: "The Wrong Shape" |
| 2013–2014
| WPC 56 | WPC Gina Dawson | Main role (series 1–2) |
| 2015–2019
| Vikings | Judith |
| 2015
| Tash | Main role |
| 2019
| Amber |
References
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External links
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Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from Coventry
Category:English film actresses
Category:English health activists
Category:English television actresses
Category:People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome