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British actress

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Jennie Jacques
Born	(1989-02-28) 28 February 1989 (age 36)Coventry, West Midlands, England[1]
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),[2] the police procedural WPC 56 (2013–2014), and the History Channel series Vikings (2015–2019).

Early life

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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.[3]

Career

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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.[4] 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]

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 through the fifth seasons of Vikings (2014–2019).[5] In 2015, she played the role of Tash in the ITV sitcom The Delivery Man (2015), which aired for six episodes.[6] In 2019, Jacques starred in the first series of the drama series London Kills, playing a homeless witness named Amber Saunders.[7]

Personal life

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Jacques is an ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation.[8] 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.[9] She has also been an advocate for those living with epilepsy as inspired by her sister.[10]

In 2021, Jacques was engaged.[9] Already in 2020 she has stated on then Twitter that she had a husband.[11] In a now deleted Instagram post she stated she had been married for a year.

Filmography

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Year	Film	Role	Notes
2010	Shank	Ree Ree
2010	Nocturn	Nina	Short film
2010	Cherry Tree Lane	Beth
2011	Demons Never Die	Jasmine	[12]
2012	Truth or Dare	Eleanor	also known as Truth or Die in the United States

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
2013	Father Brown	Violet Parnassus	Episode: "The Wrong Shape"
2013–2014	WPC 56	WPC Gina Dawson	Main role (series 1–2)
2015–2019	Vikings	Judith	Recurring role (seasons 3–5)[5]
2015	The Delivery Man	Tash	Main role
2019	London Kills	Amber	Main role (series 1)[7]

References

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1. ^ "WPC 56 star: Who needs Hollywood when you've got Brum..." Birmingham Mail. 4 February 2014. 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. ^ a b "Manolo Cardona Joins Netflix's 'Narcos'; Jennie Jacques In History's 'Vikings'". Deadline Hollywood. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
6. ^ "The Delivery Man". comedy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
7. ^ a b Perigard, Mark (27 February 2019). "'London Kills' delivers bodies and little else". Boston Herald. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
8. ^ "Jennie Jacques". Open Medicine Foundation. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
9. ^ a b O'Neill, Sean (17 August 2021). "Jennie Jacques on living with ME: 'I am a shadow of my former self physically'". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
10. ^ "Viking actress Jennie Jacques discusses the impact of epilepsy". Epilepsy Society. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
11. ^ https://x.com/JennieJacques1/status/1266391680808296448
12. ^ "Demons Never Die... But They Do Get A Cool Trailer". Dread Central. 3 September 2011.

External links

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• Jennie Jacques at IMDb

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States