Jessica Lee Rose

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Jessica Lee Rose is the actress who played the character of Bree in the Lonelygirl15 video series. The discovery that Bree was played by Jessica prompted the Creators to come forward and tell their story.

Contents 1 Pre LG15 2 Child of Anchor Cove 3 LG15 Related Appearances 4 Other Projects 5 External links

Pre LG15

Originally from Salisbury, Maryland (USA), much of Jessica's upbringing took place in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand where she attended Mount Maunganui College there from 2000-2001, then was home schooled while attending an acting class at Studio 111 in Auckland.

In January 2004, at 16 years old, Jessica moved to Auckland to study makeup at The Academy of Film & Television Makeup while continuing her once-a-week acting classes. At some point during 2004 she signed with the Clyne Modeling Agency and starred in the student short film Dearly Beloved. Her goal out of makeup school was to work with Peter Jackson, which she achieved in December when she worked on King Kong as an extras makeup artist for a week.

After Jessica's parents divorced in 2004, Jessica moved to Salisbury, MD in May 2005 to stay with her father while saving for school, and then enrolled in the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Burbank, California. While at NYFA, she had roles in several student productions such as Unleash The Fury and "In The Deep".

Child of Anchor Cove

After graduating from NYFA in April 2006, Jessica was living in Los Angeles while she was job hunting for roles, understanding the difficulties that actors face, Jessica made plans to work at a TGI Fridays restaurant. She soon discovered a listing for an independent film project called The Children of Anchor Cove on Craigslist. She was one of about eighty actresses that auditioned for the lead part. After two callbacks, she was offered the role of Bree.

Jessica was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement and was told that the project would consist of a series of videos released over the Internet. She was initially disappointed, hesitant, and almost turned down the project. In film school, actresses were warned to be on the lookout for scams, but she felt she had little to lose and after looking at YouTube and other video blogs she became more comfortable with the project.

She was originally not being paid for the project but as lonelygirl15 became more popular she and co-star Yousef Abu-Taleb received a salary so they would not have to work as waiters to support themselves.

Jessica's well-sculptured eyebrows were a major source of speculation about whether she was real or an actress before her true identity was revealed. Bree's journeys from her birth in the United States, moving to New Zealand in early childhood and coming back to the United States in her teens mirrors that of Jessica's travels, and may have been written into the character to explain her occasional accent.

LG15 Related Appearances

• Jessica was photographed by Wired Magazine for its December, 2006 article.
• Jessica appeared on the Tonight Show to reveal to the public that the project was fictional. She also appeared in an interview with MTV News the same week.
• On December 3, 2006 Jessica appeared on VH1's Big in 06 awards. She sparked some light controversy after saying to "Big Web Hit Award" presenter Jenna Jameson, a major pornography star, that "We should make a video together sometime".
• On January 24th, 2007, Virginia Heffernan wrote in the New York Times that Rose "has become a truly terrific actress."
• Forbes.com named Rose the biggest "Web-celeb" on the internet.
• Jessica is, according to VH1's "40 Biggest Internet Celebrities," the fourth biggest web celeb.

Other Projects

After becoming an internet celebrity, Jessica said she has gotten auditions she probably would not have before. She had a small role in the 2007 film "I Know Who Killed Me" starring Lindsay Lohan, and is also set to star in an independent teen-drama called "Perfect Sport" from first-time director Anthony O'Brien, in which she will play Tina, a 15-year-old girl discovering who she is.

Jessica Rose has appeared in a new TV comedy/drama series "Greek" about, among other things, a geeky college freshman who decides to join a fraternity. The show premiered July 9, 2007 on ABC Family.

Jessica Rose's character on the show is named Jen K. and is portrayed as an overly talkative but likable person. While her character was initially a minor character, her role in the series gained a great more deal of significance in the episode that originally aired Monday, August 7, 2007. In that episode Jen K. become close with one of the main protagonists of the series, and this relationship could very likely be explored in future episodes.

On April 2, Rose co-hosted G4TV's Attack of the Show. The episode, ironically, was about April 1st hoaxes on the internet, where it's sometimes unclear what's real and fake.

External links

• New Zealand Herald interview in September
• TV3 in New Zealand
• New Zealand Herald interview in February