Jasmine Blackborow

Blackborow was born in Hackney, East London, and grew up in North London.^[1] She attended Enfield County School for Girls and then The Latymer School in Edmonton.^[2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of East Anglia and later a Master of Arts in Classical Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.^[3]

Blackborow made her debut as the doomed Lucy in Bram Stoker's Dracula as adapted by Theresa Heskins for the New Vic Theatre in 2015.^[4] She then played Rosie in Rose Lewenstein's play Now This is Not the End at the Arcola Theatre.^[5][6] Her next role saw her play Maid Marian in Hood, directed by Jack McNamara.^[7][8] In 2016, she played Maya The Younger in Lulu Raczka's play Grey Man, directed by Robin Winfield-Smith.^[9][10] Blackborow then played Frances in Rodney Ackland's After October.^[11][12] Blackborow took on the roles Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Desdemona in Othello at Pop-up Globe in 2017, touring in New Zealand and Australia.^[13] She returned to London in 2018 to play Fanny Fairlove / Louisa in J.P. Wooler's rediscovered classic A Winning Hazard.^[14]

Following a main role in the 2014 short film The Swallow by Harry Baker,^[15] Blackborow played British volunteer Katlyn in Aamir,^[16] a short film about a 13-year-old refugee stranded alone at the infamous Calais Jungle encampment. Inspired by director Vika Evdokimenko's own experiences working as a volunteer in Calais, it was partially filmed on location at the encampment.^[17] The film was shown at festivals around the world and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2018.^[18][19][20] In 2019, Blackborow played Georgie in a short comedy film, Dad Joke by David Abramsky,^[21] and Heather in Tosca Musk's The Protector.^[22] She next appeared as school matron Jane Crowther in the 2021 comedy horror film School's Out Forever.^[23][24] During lockdown in 2020, she filmed the British horror thriller Daemon Mind, which was completed in 2024 and released in April 2025.^[25][26]

In 2021, Blackborow made her television debut as Marie, an Inferni in the first season of Shadow and Bone, the Netflix adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's novel of the same name.^[27][28] In 2022, she was part of the main cast of the Canal+ and BBC drama series Marie Antoinette.^[29] Blackbarow next appeared in Guy Ritchie's 2024 Netflix series The Gentlemen, playing Lady Charlotte "Charly" Horniman, the sister of the main protagonists played by Theo James and Daniel Ings. She reprised the role in the second season of the series, which started production in 2025.^[30]

Blackborow had a supporting role in Gerard Johnson's Odyssey, a "gritty urban thriller" that premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival.^[31] In March 2025, it was announced that she had joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix crime thriller series Legends, alongside Steve Coogan, Tom Burke and Charlotte Ritchie.^[32] Blackborow was added to the cast of the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in August 2025, taking on the role of Charlotte Lucas.^[33] In the Kate Moss biopic Moss & Freud (2025), directed by James Lucas and starring Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber, she played Bella Freud, the British fashion designer and daughter of artist Lucian Freud.^[33]