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With flowing raven hair, pale blue eyes and a striking, exotic beauty belying her Trinidadian and Guyanese heritage, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott commands attention wherever she goes. The London-born British actress has a barrage of new movies due for release in the first half of 2025 and has had an incredibly busy year for her production company Shogun Films which she founded in 2020.
Jeanine’s breakthrough role was in the gangland home invasion movie Nemesis with Nick Moran and Billy Murray, in which she essayed feisty gangster’s moll Sadie Morgan, winning herself a legion of devoted admirers around the world. She followed it up by playing a tough police detective in revenge thriller Renegades, which boasted an all-star international cast including Danny Trejo, Lee Majors and Patsy Kensit.
A star cameo in the whacky slasher movie Peter Rabid saw her stealing scenes opposite veteran British actor Guy Henry (Rogue One) and started her on a new path in the horror genre which her striking looks and nuanced performances lend themselves to.
First up for Jeanine is Helloween, an eagerly anticipated horror-thriller set during 2016’s ‘killer clown’ craze in which she plays a Doctor whose psychotic patient Kane seems to be behind a Purge style uprising of disenchanted people in sinister clown make up. Written and directed by Phil Claydon (LVK) and also starring Ronan Summers and Michael Paré, the film made a splash at the recent American Film Market.
Jeanine followed this up with a key supporting role in the serial killer horror Doctor Plague, playing a journalist assisting a cop (played by British heartthrob Martin Kemp) in his quest to expose a sinister and murderous cult bent on continuing the despicable work of Jack The Ripper. The film also stars Peter Woodward, David Yip and Wendy Glenn and is due for release in April 2025.
More recently she played the lead in Spy action-thriller Knightfall, with Sir Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey Moore as her love interest and Saint icon Ian Ogilvy as her father. This action-packed thriller proved incredibly physically demanding for the actress who is a veteran karate practitioner with a number of high impact fight scenes. Knightfall is a sophisticated espionage caper which has already captured the imagination of the James Bond community online with a trailer due to drop next month.
Jeanine is currently working on three more scary movies – the ‘unusual vampire love story’ Midnight Kiss, the historically-inspired horror The Secret of Guy Fawkes and much hyped action-horror Werewolf Hunt which is described as ‘The Howling meets Predator’ and boasts 7 foot practical creature suits.
Whether she’s engaged in a desperate knife fight with Michael Paré in Knightfall or fighting a horde of demonic clowns with a fire axe in Helloween, Jeanine is staking her claim as one of the key bad-ass boss ladies of genre movies. While success and acclaim as an actress have come to Jeanine later in life, like fellow Brit Hannah Waddingham she is embracing the opportunities and enjoying the journey. Keep your eyes on this unique British actress – you’ll find it hard to tear them away.
