Jasmine Jobson
Jasmine Jobson (born 9 May 1995) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Jaq in the television crime drama series Top Boy (2019–2023), and for portraying Lily in the feature film Surge (2020). Other credits include Noughts + Crosses (2022), Platform 7 (2023), Bird (2024), and MobLand (2025).
Jasmine Jobson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 May 1995 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Jasmine Jobson (born 9 May 1995)[1][2] is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Jaq in the television crime drama series Top Boy (2019–2023), and for portraying Lily in the feature film Surge (2020). Other credits include Noughts + Crosses (2022), Platform 7 (2023), Bird (2024), and MobLand (2025).
Early life
[edit]Jasmine Jobson was born 9 May 1995[1][2] in Hayes, West London, England. Her mother is of Irish and Greek-Cypriot heritage, her father is Jamaican.[3] From a very young age (around six), Jobson showed talent singing by mimicking television stars, so her mother enrolled her in "Paddington Arts",[3] a Youth Arts organisation dedicated to developing talent and creativity in London's young people,[4] where Jobson honed her talents.[3]
As a child, Jobson had asked to be separated from her mother by social services and placed into foster care, living in West Drayton for five years.[3] Jobson taught herself how to channel her emotions into her acting.[2] When asked by the casting director for Top Boy to show some anger in her audition, Jobson threw a chair across the room, nearly hitting a window, securing her the role in the production.[5]
After completing her GCSEs, she joined the Big House Theatre[2] which provides drama-based workshops and training on team building, challenges management and confidence development and focuses on helping young people who have been through the UK's care system.[6] Maggie Norris, chief executive of Big House, described Jobson as an extraordinary talent.[2]
Career
[edit]Jobson began her acting career in theatre, performing in plays such as Phoenix: A Girl on Fire and Wild Diamonds[7] at the Hackney Down Studios in 2013.[8] From 2014, Jobson performed in several short films Flea, A Generation of Vipers and The King, before debuting on television in 2016 as Kia Hopkins in an episode of Suspects.[7] Since then, she has made minor appearances in The Break, Five by Five and Dark Heart,[7] before landing a main character role in the Channel 4 (later Netflix) television crime drama series Top Boy.[9] In 2019, Jobson was nominated for and won the Best Emerging Talent at the Movie and Video Awards (MVISA).[10][11]
In 2020, Jobson starred as Lily in feature film Surge, which premiered in January 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City.[12] Jobson purported to be comfortable in an airport environment, the setting for Surge, as she once worked as a bartender in Wetherspoons at Heathrow's Terminal 2.[5] Between 2020 and 2024, Jobson was nominated three times for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Top Boy, winning in 2024.[13]
In 2023, Jobson took the protagonist role in the ITV1 psychological thriller Platform 7, alongside actors Phil Davis and Toby Regbo.[14] Also in 2023, Jobson voiced a talking baby in an advert for Prostate Cancer UK.[15]
In 2025, she stars as Zosia, working for the shows protagonist criminals 'the Harrigans', led by Pierce Brosnan's Conrad Harrigan in the Paramount+ London gangster series MobLand (2025), directed by Guy Ritchie;[16]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | A Generation of Vipers | Mae | Short film |
| Flea | Naz | ||
| 2016 | The King | Tanisha | |
| 2018 | Collection Only | Aliyah | |
| Carly | Helen | ||
| Obey | Little M | ||
| Little Shit | Jasmine | Short film | |
| 2019 | Lie Low | Michelle | |
| 2020 | Good Thanks, You? | Amy | |
| Surge | Lily | ||
| Clearing | Kaila | Short film | |
| 2024 | Bird | Peyton | |
| 2025 | Hamlet | Fortinbras | |
| TBA | In the Shadows | Ramla Ali | In production |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Break | Lisa | Episode: "Match Girl" |
| Suspects | Kia Hopkins | Episode: "The Enemy Within: Part 3" | |
| 2017 | Five by Five | Jigga | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Dark Heart | Sally Watkins | Episode: "Suffer the Children: Part 1" |
| 2019–2023 | Top Boy | Jaq | 24 episodes |
| 2022 | Noughts + Crosses | Cara Imega | Episode: "#2.1" |
| 2023 | Platform 7 | Lisa Evans | Main role; 4 episodes[14] |
| 2025 | MobLand | Zosia | [17] |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Movie & Video Screen Awards (MVISA) | Best Emerging Talent | Outstanding Career contribution | Won | [10][11] |
| 2020 | British Academy Television Awards | BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress | Top Boy | Nominated | [13][18] |
| 2022 | MOBO Awards | Best Performance In a TV Show/Film | Nominated | [18] | |
| 2023 | British Academy Television Awards | BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | [19] | |
| 9th National Film Awards UK | Best Actress in a TV Series | Nominated | [20] | ||
| 2024 | British Academy Television Awards | BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress | Won | [21] | |
| 2024 | Royal Television Society Programme Awards | Leading Actor: Female | Nominated | [22] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Happy birthday Jasmine". twitter.com. 9 May 2020. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Foster care teenager transforms from 'hood rat' to potential Hollywood star". standard.co.uk. 28 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Chuckie Online chats to Jasmine Jobson about 'Top Boy'". rwdmag.com. January 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Paddington Arts". paddingtonarts.org.uk. 2020. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018.
- ^ a b "'I'm a tough cookie, I have thick skin': Top Boy's Jasmine Jobson". msn.com. 27 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020.
- ^ "The Big House means business". thebighouse.uk.com. 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Client Profile - Jasmine Jobson". cam.co.uk. 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Jasmine Jobson v Amazing Magazine". doritanissen.com. 2019.
- ^ "Top Boy season 3 cast: Who plays Jaq? Who is Jasmine Jobson?". gofashionideas.com. 18 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Best Emerging Talent Jasmine Jobson #iluvmvisas". twitter.com. 26 October 2019.
- ^ a b "MVISA 2019 Gallery - Best Emerging Talent Jasmine Jobson". vtelevision.co.uk. 2019.
- ^ "'Surge': Film Review - Sundance 2020". hollywoodreporter.com. 28 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Bafta TV Awards 2020: Nominees in full". bbc.co.uk. 4 June 2020.
- ^ a b Marland, Sean (26 January 2023). "Platform 7: potential release date, plot, cast and all we know about the haunting thriller". whattowatch.com.
- ^ "Prostate Cancer UK's early diagnosis campaign offers a future full of good things". Little Black Book. 24 May 2024.
- ^ James Hibbs (29 March 2025). "MobLand cast: Full list of actors and characters in Guy Ritchie's crime drama". radiotimes.com.
- ^ Shanfeld, Ethan (26 February 2025). "Guy Ritchie's MobLand — Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — Sets March Premiere on Paramount+". Variety. Penske Media Corporation.
- ^ a b "Jasmine Jobson Awards". imdb (index reference only). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "BAFTA TV Awards 2023 - Full list of nominations". msn.com. 22 March 2023.
- ^ "Nominees for the 9th annual National Film Awards 2023 announced". National Film Awards. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ Whittock, Jesse (12 May 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Matthew Macfadyen, Netflix's 'Top Boy' Take Home Major Prizes; 'The Crown's Final Season Leaves Empty-Handed – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "2024 Winners of Royal Television Society Awards". hollywoodreporter.com. 26 March 2024.