Born in Twizel, 1976. Educated in Johnsonville 1981-1993.
Jackie works as a writer, actor, director, script adviser and teacher. She is a client writer of Playmarket Inc., a member of the NZ Writers' Guild and a member of Actors' Equity. She is represented by Auckland Actors.
Jackie came out of school and went straight into acting. She moved quickly into devising her own work and branched out into writing plays. Her commissioned works include, The Forcemeat Incident for Young and Hungry, The Swimming Lessons for Silo theatre and Space Migrant for Ohio Northern University.
Jackie is one half of Geeks and Snakes, a company dedicated to developing and producing films. They have just completed their first short, As Far as I Know and are currently working on their feature, Bruiser.
She enjoys performing in theatre, film and radio. Her recent roles include: incestuous salsa dance instructors, evil Scandinavian schoolmistresses, bearded ladies and super-strong swimming worms.
Over the past few of years, Jackie has worked as a script adviser with devising companies and emerging playwrights. She taught drama and playwriting in Auckland and stepped into a directing role to work on Crash Mat for Silo Theatre's Open Home season before touring with My Brother and I are Pornstars.

Jackie lives in Melbourne with her husband Jesse and daughter June.