Development
According to the official Holby City website, Jac is "strong-minded" and forthright. Professionally, she is a highly ambitious "political player", determined to become a consultant and attain recognition for her surgical skills. She is willing to hurt others to achieve her goals, and has a "professional façade", developed as a result of pursuing a career in a male-dominated field. Jac demonstrates a willingness to flout rules and endanger patients to advance her own career. She develops rivalries with fellow registrar Diane Lloyd (Patricia Potter), and ward sister Faye Morton (Patsy Kensit).
Outside of work, Jac is "charming and hugely sociable". Placed in foster care by her mother aged twelve, she finds it difficult to form relationships due to an inability to commit and "let herself go". Though Jac rarely falls in love, she is not adverse to using sexual manipulation to achieve her goals, and has had romances with several of her colleagues; consultant Nick Jordan (Michael French), who she let "too close and was burned", registrar Joseph Byrne (Luke Roberts) and Joseph's father Lord Charles Byrne (Ronald Pickup), and foundation doctor Oliver Valentine (James Anderson). Noting this trait, television critic Jim Shelley described Jac as a "man-eating android".
Prior to her casting, Marcel had appeared in Holby City in an unrelated role, as a drug addict named Elinor. As Jac, she was introduced to the series alongside Roberts, as Jac's love interest Joseph, and Tom Chambers, as cardiothoracic registrar Sam Strachan. In two series twelve episodes, Cydney Dubavin-Hands played a teenage Jac in flashback scenes.
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