Jeanette's extensive filmography includes notable Australian films such as The Boys and Blackrock, as well as numerous television series like Good Cop/Bad Cop, Darby & Joan 2, Upright 2, The Tourist, Rake, and web-series Patricia Moore, Gut Feeling, and The Wrong Kind of Black.
Recent theatre appearances include Queen Bette at PIP Theatre in Brisbane and The King's Head Theatre in London, Love Stories, an adaptation of Trent Dalton's best-selling book for Brisbane Festival in 2024, Tim, an adaptation of Colleen McCullough's novel of the same name for Christine Dunstan Productions, Who the Hell is Mirabel? at Schreiber Shorts on Theater Row in New York, Return to the Dirt at QLD Theatre, and a national tour of Letters to Lindy for Merrigong Theatre, where she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.
Jeanette is also a scriptwriter, winning the AWGIE Award for Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad series about therapy, which premiered internationally at Cannes Short Series and in Australia at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and was subsequently broadcast on SBS Television. She also won Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival 08 for LockEdown Locked In, a multi-award-winning film reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeanette contributed Paradise is Silent, a spoken word iambic verse poem, to Come To Where I Am, Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia with Paines Plough, London, and streamed internationally.
Four new plays were recently shortlisted for local and international awards: Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia, Red Stitch, Inks, 2024, Alpine International Fellowship Theatre Prize, 2020; The Resistible Death and Rise of Ines de la Vera, a love letter to the lonely, Alpine Fellowship, 2023; God in Space, a Pandemic Family dramedy, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2022, and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, The Silver Gull Playwriting Award, 2020.
Tell Me Again, a memory play, produced by Eye of the Storm, premiered at Old 505 Theatre in 2014 and received a workshop and rehearsed reading at Arcola Theatre, London in 2019. Jeanette co-devised Queen Bette, a one-woman show about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis, with director Peter Mountford, produced by G.Bod Theatre for Mardi Gras at Old 505 Theatre, which premiered in 2015 and has toured extensively.
