Jacqueline "Jacqui" Boatswain is an English actress and as a child demonstrated a musical talent, attending ballet school in London at age seventeen. For some fifteen years she sang and danced on the West End stage in the RSC's 'Kiss Me, Kate', 'Jesus Christ, Superstar' and the revivals of 'Carousel' and 'Chicago'. In the early 2000s it was suggested to her that she should turn her hand to acting and in 2003, after a four week spell in hospital soap 'Casualty' she took on the role of the headmistress in school drama 'Grane Hill', remaining there for three years. Since then she has appeared in other long running series - 'Eastenders', 'Hollyoaks' and as the pretentious Patreesha in 'Shameless' as well as a rather sinister scientist in the children's fantasy 'Wolfblood'. On stage she has appeared in 'Coriolanus', 'One Monkey Don't Stop No Show', James Baldwin's 'The Amen Corner' with Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Sharon D. Clarke and Sarah Rutherford's 'Adult Supervision', the last three being plays dealing with racial concerns.
Filmography[]
Year
TV/Movie
Role
1988
Red Dwarf (TV Series)
Dancer
1989
Goldeneye (TV Movie)
Dancer in gambling club (as Jacqui Botswain)
1990
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (TV Series)
Dancer
2004
London Voodoo
Ruth (as Jaqueline Boatswain)
2002 - 2005
Casualty (TV Series)
Karen Blythe / Diamond Cusack
2003 - 2005
Grange Hill (TV Series)
Mrs. Bassinger
2007
Life on Mars (TV Series)
Officer 1
2007
The Royal (TV Series)
Safi
2007
Little Devil (TV Mini-Series)
Bernie
2008
Mistresses (TV Series)
Jenny
2008
Torchwood (TV Series)
Plummer
2011
Silk (TV Series)
Turley's Solicitor
2011
The Importance of Being Whatever (TV Series)
Kathy
2013
Working Lunge (Short)
Boss (as Jacqui Boatswain)
2013
Shameless (TV Series)
Patreesha St Rose
2013
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)
Additional Multiplayer Voices (voice, as Jaqueline Boatswain)
