Nailah Cumberbatch (born in Barbados) appeared on Coronation Street between February 2005 and January 2006 as Underworld machinist Jessie Jackson. Having trained at the Birmingham School of acting, her other TV credits include roles in Casualty and Misfits, whilst on stage she has appeared in productions of The Memory Of Water, Peer Gynt, Revelations and They Shoot Horses Don't They.