Jacquie Davis

For over thirty years Jacquie Davis has survived as one of the top operators in a male-dominated profession - the secretive, often dangerous world of being a bodyguard - or to give the profession its proper name, close protection officer. In 2019, Netflix released Close, an action thriller whose main character was inspired by Jacquie's life story. Hired to protect a rich young mining heiress, bodyguard and counter-terrorism expert Sam (Noomi Rapace) finds herself tangled in a violent kidnapping and deadly conspiracy. When attackers target the heiress she's protecting, battle-hardened bodyguard Sam scrambles to save her client - and teach her how to fight back. Jacquie's has had so many close scrapes with death while risking everything for her clients, she is genuinely surprised to still be alive. She has been stabbed, thrown through a shop window, shot at several times, including by Kashmiri snipers, and chased through some of the world's most dangerous countries. She has also freed