SAFTAS TURNING 18
Oct 2024
Jeff Jackson celebrates 18 years of South African Television and Film.
Four Walls creators bump into artist at 18th SAFTAs
Jeff Jackson celebrates 18 years of South African Television and Film.
Jeff Jackson celebrated 18 years of South African film and television work at the 18th South African Film and Television Awards. One of South Africa's best telenovela THE RIVER on which he debuted in 2023 sparkled as Best Drama among multiple nominations and awards reflecting its powerful storytelling and high production values.
SHAKA ILEMBE made history at the SAFTA awards, also taking home the prestigious award for Best Drama Series. This remarkable achievement marks the series as the most-awarded drama in the event's history, with an impressive total of 12 Golden Horns.
MULTIPLE AMAA NOMINATIONS
Oct 2023
Jeff Jackson has been nominated at the African Movie Awards Academy for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for FOUR WALLS. The production also landed 3 more nominations for Best Film, Best Film in an African Language and Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Jeff Jackson nominated for best supporting actor at the 2024 AMAA
Jeff Jackson nominated alongside legendary Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Four walls shines multiple nominations at the AMAA 2024
Jeff Jackson nominated for best supporting actor at the 2024 AMAA
THE RIVER DEBUT
Jun 2023
Jeff Jackson debuts THE RIVER Season 6 on Showmax & 1 Magic DStv channel 103, playing the role of Lebogang Modise, Bonolo Mokoena's fiancé.
Watch the couple's love bubble burst quickly when temptations test their relationship and Lebo finding himself having to make the sort of compromises he never thought he’d have to make.
FOUR WALLS FIRST PREMIER IN SOUTH AFRICA
Nov 2022
FOUR WALLS premiered at the Africa Rising International Film Festival in Rosebank, The Zone, Ster-Kinekor. Jeff Jackson takes up a dark role of "Dice", a Township raised thug who experienced a childhood marked by abuse and insecurity which eventually led him to pursue a life of crime and violence. He now finds himself in a home of a nurse and a cop after a job gone wrong.
SNEAK PEAK INTO UPCOMING FOUR WALLS
Oct 2022
FOUR WALLS follows Grace Molotsi (played by Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa), a married nurse from the township who feels both trapped and at her wit's end because of her abusive husband. When she decides to end his life, her house is stormed by two thugs Grootman (Khulu Skenjana) and Dice (Jeff Jackson) on the run from a cash-in-transit robbery gone wrong. FOUR WALLS premieres at North East Film (NEIFF) and the Buenos Aires International Web Series (BUEIFF) Festivals in November 2022 and June 2023 respectively.
3 RUNNER-UP MEDALS IN L.A.
Aug 2022
Jeff Jackson Morgianho attended the 2022 iPOP! convention in Anaheim, Los Angeles and racked up 3 medals:
IPOP – 2ND RUNNER UP FOR BEST ADULT SOAP ACTOR
IPOP – 3RD RUNNER UP FOR ADULT MALE MODEL OF THE YEAR
IPOP – 3RD RUNNER UP FOR BEST MALE FASHION PRINT
networking with international artists, agents and managers.
CELEBRATING THE LEGENDS
Oct 2018
Jeff Jackson joined Word Based Productions together with the Department of Arts and Culture to celebrate Mr. Moditle Boikie Pholo at the South African State theatre.
The event kicked off with Music and theatre play inspired by the legendary series LESILO RULA.
