Jasmine Jobson

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Jasmine Jobson
Jobson at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Born (1995-05-09) 9 May 1995 (age 29)
Hayes, London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active2013–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

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] The results prevailed in adulthood though, Jobson taught herself how to channel that aggression and 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

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] Part of a cast which also includes Tom Hardy, Dame Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, and Joanne Froggatt.[16]

Filmography

Film

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
TBA Hamlet Fortinbras Post-production
In the Shadows Ramla Ali In production

Television

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

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Happy birthday Jasmine". twitter.com. 9 May 2020. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Foster care teenager transforms from 'hood rat' to potential Hollywood star". standard.co.uk. 28 November 2013.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Paddington Arts". paddingtonarts.org.uk. 2020. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "The Big House means business". thebighouse.uk.com. 2020.
  7. ^ a b c "Client Profile - Jasmine Jobson". cam.co.uk. 4 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Jasmine Jobson v Amazing Magazine". doritanissen.com. 2019.
  9. ^ "Top Boy season 3 cast: Who plays Jaq? Who is Jasmine Jobson?". gofashionideas.com. 18 September 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Best Emerging Talent Jasmine Jobson #iluvmvisas". twitter.com. 26 October 2019.
  11. ^ a b "MVISA 2019 Gallery - Best Emerging Talent Jasmine Jobson". vtelevision.co.uk. 2019.
  12. ^ "'Surge': Film Review - Sundance 2020". hollywoodreporter.com. 28 January 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Bafta TV Awards 2020: Nominees in full". bbc.co.uk. 4 June 2020.
  14. ^ a b Marland, Sean (26 January 2023). "Platform 7: potential release date, plot, cast and all we know about the haunting thriller". whattowatch.com.
  15. ^ "Prostate Cancer UK's early diagnosis campaign offers a future full of good things". Little Black Book. 24 May 2024.
  16. ^ a b James Hibbs (29 March 2025). "MobLand cast: Full list of actors and characters in Guy Ritchie's crime drama". radiotimes.com.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ a b "Jasmine Jobson Awards". imdb (index reference only). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  19. ^ "BAFTA TV Awards 2023 - Full list of nominations". msn.com. 22 March 2023.
  20. ^ "Nominees for the 9th annual National Film Awards 2023 announced". National Film Awards. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  21. ^ 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.