A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Jeanette has worked extensively in theatre, film and television. Recent theatre appearances include Return to the Dirt (QLD Theatre) and a National tour of Letters to Lindy (Merrigong Theatre) in which she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Jeanette has also performed in several sell-out seasons of Queen Bette (G.bod Theatre), a one-woman show she co-created with director, Peter Mountford about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis.

Film credits include Christmas on the Farm, The Bystander Story and seminal Australian films, The Boys and Blackrock. Jeanette has also appeared in numerous television series, notably, The Tourist, Doctor Doctor, Rake, Secret City and Janet King and web-seriesPatricia Moore, Gut Feeling and The Wrong Kind of Black.

Jeanette is also a playwright and screenwriter with three produced plays, I Love You Now(Darlinghurst Theatre), I Hate You My Mother (Redline Productions) and Tell Me Again (Old 505), which also received a workshop and rehearsed reading at the Arcola Theatre in London in 2019. Two recent plays were both shortlisted for major awards in 2020. Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia was in the final ten nominees for the prestigious Alpine International Playwriting Award and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry was among the five nominees for The Silver Gull Playwriting Award.

Recent screenplays include Poo Boy, an episode of It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad web-series about therapy which had its international premiere in competition at Cannes Short Series 2002 and its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, also in 2022 and Shattered, the Australian component of the multi award-winning film, LockEdown Locked In, an international project reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID 19 pandemic which garnered Jeanette, along with her international colleagues, Best Original Screenplay at the Athens International Art Film Festival, 08, 2021.

In 1996, Jeanette was the recipient of the inaugural Mike Walsh Fellowship.