Career
She is most famous for her role as fun-loving nurse, turned Ward Sister, Donna Jackson in the BBC medical drama series Holby City from 2004 to 2011. She also played the role of Alice in a spin-off of BBC soap opera EastEnders, "Perfectly Frank", in 2003.
In 2011, it was announced Jacobs had joined the cast of BBC drama Waterloo Road as new deputy head and science teacher, Sian Diamond in the seventh series. Following the drama's relocation to Greenock in Scotland, Jacobs has also made the move up north, and has continue to appear in the role throughout the eighth series, from August 2012, however, she is departing the drama series during the spring term.
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Famous quotes containing the word career:
“They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)
“A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
—Jessie Bernard (20th century)