Jacoba trained at Italia Conti Academy of the Arts and National Youth Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Women & Theatre: Revival (Birmingham Rep); Twelfth Night For One Night Only, The Fir Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe);The Winter’s Tale & Our Verse in Time (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Where Do We Go From Here? (Pentabus Theatre); Alice in the Universe (Oxford Playhouse); Bogeyman (The Pleasance Dome); Before I was a Bear (Bunker Theatre & Soho Theatre); Gulliver’s Travels (Unicorn Theatre);  Love Dance (Chiswick Playhouse); The Snow Queen (The Stephen Joseph Theatre); When the Sea Swallows us Whole (Vaults Festival); Queens of Sheba (Vaults Festival, New Diorama, Underbelly, Camden People’s Theatre), winner of The Stage Award 2018.

TV and Short film credits include: Twelfth Night (CBEEBIES); The Vest; Highlife, Montague; Cleo’s Choice & Expiry Date.

Radio credits include: Vergil! (Audible/Naked Productions); Precious Little Thing (BBC Radio 4 & Talawa).