Eleanor Jackson
trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2016. She is currently playing series regular, Winifred Dartie, in Mammoth/PBS’s upcoming The Forsytes directed by Meenu Gaur and Annetta Laufer. She previously played Princess Irene of Hesse in Sky History’s Royal Mob directed by Fraser Macdonald. She also just finished filming a role for Sky Atlantic’s Inheritance directed by Storm Saulter.
A budding filmmaker herself, Eleanor starred in her bi-lingual proof of concept short film The Champagne Socialist (2023). She can also be seen as Elena in Something for Your Mind (2023) directed by Kamil Dymek and Adult Charlie in The Friend (2023) directed by Nanni Mann.
Her theatre credits include: Marie Curie: K Roadshow (2023), Wait Until Dark (2019), Me and My Girl (2019), Aspects of Love (2019), Guesthouse (2018), Great Again (2018), Medea (2017), Playhouse Creatures (2016) and Trojan Women (2016).
Eleanor is also an accomplished VoiceOver artist and has recorded a number of audiobooks for Penguin, Harper Collins and Bloomsbury. She is also the voice of Jeanne in Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon.
She is also a bilingual (English/German) screenwriter with a BA in German from Bristol University and an MA in Screenwriting from Raindance Film School. Her work spans both historical and contemporary settings, centering on complex female protagonists navigating restrictive societies, power struggles, and evolving identities.
Her TV projects include The Champagne Socialist (Sundance Collab), a bilingual period drama about an aristocratic communist torn between love and ideology, and Mare Street, exploring tensions between Victorian reformers and the women they aim to help. In 2023, she crowdfunded and starred in a proof of concept for The Champagne Socialist, directed by Raphael Wagner, which premiered at the Raindance Film Festival. Her feature On the Wrong Foot, examining romance and self-acceptance after sudden disability, is in development with Canadian director Katia Shannon.
