2012–2016: Early work Jessie's first professional acting role was in a
short film titled
Rosie in 2012. She followed this with appearances in the soap operas
Doctors and
Casualty. She appeared in an episode of
House of Anubis and reprised her role as Sophie Danae in the television film
Touchstone of Ra. Between 2014 and 2016, Jessie starred in the
BAFTA-winning
CBBC Online web series
Dixi as Shari. In 2015, she was cast as WPC Annie Taylor, the lead character in the third series of the BBC One television programme
WPC 56. She was a guest in
Josh, playing the protagonist's love interest. Jessie acted in the 2014 short film
Copy That directed by Kingsley Hoskins which won the Best Comedic Short Film award at TSFA in
New York. Jessie made her
feature film debut as Doris in the 2016 war film
Their Finest.
2017–present: Rising popularity and breakthrough In 2017, she starred as DC Jodie Taylor in series four of
Line of Duty on
BBC One and Lucy in the
Dave sitcom
Porters, the latter of which she would return to for its second series. The following year, she played Amelia Sedley in the
ITV miniseries adaptation of
William Makepeace Thackeray's
Vanity Fair. She also made a guest appearance in the
Doctor Who episode "
Kerblam!" in 2018. In 2020, Jessie began playing Eloise, the
fifth Bridgerton child, in the
Shondaland-produced
Netflix period drama
Bridgerton, an adaptation of the
Regency romance novels by
Julia Quinn. Jessie appeared in
Bali 2002 for
Stan and
9Network, an Australian drama about the real life
2002 Bali bombings. Jessie portrayed real-life survivor Polly Miller, a newlywed British tourist. For her performance, Jessie was nominated for the
Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress. In 2023, Jessie narrated the audiobook
The Rebound by Leeanne Slade for
Audible Original. It was voted as one of
Audible's best books of 2023. In 2025, she played the main role of Maggie Mahon in the Netflix series
Toxic Town. ==Personal life==