 Jhakra has appeared in "Holby City", "Waking the Dead" and "Doctors", and she got the role of Minnie in "Coronation Street".She graduated from "Rose Bruford College" with a First Class degree in American Theatre Arts in 2005, spending a year on American conventions and techniques in Texas.Jhakra has also appeared in Peter Kosminskys two part Channel 4 docu-film Britz.