Meet the Women of “Top Boy” Season 4

Alongside an illustrious career in music, Little Simz has been acting since the age of 9, appearing in E4’s “Youngers” and BBC’s “Spirit Warriors.” In season four of “Top Boy,” Simz returns as Shelley, a single mother who owns a nail salon.

Shelly is also a carer for Dushane Hill’s mother and later ends up pursuing a relationship with Hill (played by Ashley Walters). Speaking to “The Guardian” back in 2019, Simz said she’d been a longtime fan of the show, back when it originally aired on Channel 4. “I was at school when it first came out and that’s what everyone was talking about – the fact that we finally had a TV show that represented us,” she said at the time.

Though she’s primarily known as Jaq from “Top Boy,” Jasmine Jobson has also previously starred in feature film “Surge,” which first premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Jobson’s character, Jaq, returns for season four of the show, where she continues to work alongside Dushane and Sully (played by Kane Robinson). In a new interview with “The Face,” Jobson said that “Jaq is that annoying little sister that everybody wants. Her character’s important because it shows that women can do anything, we’re powerful in our own right, even in a male-dominated scenario.”

Jolade Obasola is returning for season four of “Top Boy” and continuing her role as the mother of Attica, best friend of Stefan (played by Araloyin Oshunremi). In the last episode of season three, Ats and his mum struggle to see eye to eye about his increasing lack of attendance at school and his involvement with Jaq, Dushane, and Sully. In a recent interview with “The Face,” Obasola explained that part of her decision to take the role in “Top Boy” stemmed from the fact that she has a son in real life.

“I feel like there needs to be more awareness. I want viewers to have a better understanding of the fact that life on the streets and crime affects so many more people than you would expect. It touches so many lives,” she said.

Saffron Hocking plays Jaq’s sister Lauryn, set to return for “Top Boy”‘s fourth season. Toward the end of the third season, Lauryn’s found fraternizing with the enemy (aka Dris, played by Shone Romulus) and sent away to avoid the wrath of Sully. In the upcoming fourth season, we find a pregnant Lauryn in a difficult relationship with a new character called Curtis (played by Howard Charles).

South London-based MC NoLay turns her cameo from series three into a fully fledged role in the upcoming season of “Top Boy,” returning as the newly out-of-prison girlfriend of dealer Dris.

Model and founder of Gurls Talk Adwoa Aboah stars in the upcoming season of “Top Boy” as Becks, a mysterious new character we’re introduced to via Jaq (Jasmine Jobson).

First introduced in season three of “Top Boy,” Lisa Dwan is returning to her role as Lizzie for season four. Initially, Lizzie’s character works closely with Jamie (played by Michael Ward), but toward the end of season three, she’s recruited by Dushane and Sully to help them instead.

French actor Joséphine de La Baume is joining the cast of “Top Boy” season four as a seemingly friendly face and Sully’s new neighbour who may help him to get through a particularly difficult time.

English actor Erin Kellyman is joining the cast for “Top Boy”‘s new series as a supposed young relative of Sully named Pebbles who comes back into his life to ask him for help.

Ava Brennan’s previously starred in “Hellboy,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Rocketman,” and in 2022, she joins the cast for season four of “Top Boy.” Brennan plays Vee, the overprotective sister of Curtis who ends up in a relationship with Jaq’s sister Lauryn.