Jasmine Jobson

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]

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]