The talented, natural beauty with mesmerizing blue eyes, Jessica Karen Szohr is an American actress who has gained recognition through her excellent acting skills displayed mostly on television series. Jessica is better renowned as character Vanessa Abrams on the CW series Gossip Girl. Jessica has also emerged in a few movies including the recent movie The Internship. Jessica is also adored by her fans for her sexy, long, toned legs and a hot body.
Born on March 31 1985 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, US, Jessica Karen Szohr’s ethnicity is a mixture of Hungarian, African American and also includes Irish and English.Jessica is the oldest of the five children of her parents .While young she was interested in playing soccer, served on the student council and was also a part of the cheerleading squad in school. While she was aged six, Jessica began her modeling career. Jessica with her pretty face made an appearance in print ads for Kohl’s department stores and her first national campaign for Quaker Oats at age ten. Modeling gigs followed after that, which included prints for Crate and Barrel, Mountain Dew, Jockey and JanSport. Jessica graduated later from Menomonee Falls High School and then moved to Los Angeles with her mother at the tender age of 17 and started her acting career.
Jessica made her Debut as an actress in the series My Wife and Kids episode 25 from season 3 , “Not so Hostile Takeover”. Jessica moved on to the big screen with her first movie Uncle Nino in 2003, as minor role The MC. Jessica also appeared in various guest teenage television series including that’s so Raven, Drake and Josh, What I Like About You and Joan of Arcadia. Jessica is also remembered for appearing in three episodes of CSI: Miami as character Samantha Barrish. Jessica made a major appearance in a recurring role as Laura for six episodes in the ABC dramedy series What About Brian. Jessica appeared in the music videos for Best Days by Matt White and Over You by Daughtery. In the same year, 2007, Jessica earned her breakthrough role on the hit CW teen drama series Gossip Girl based on the novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar. Jessica played the character Vanessa Abrams, Dan Humphrey’s childhood friend and occasional love interest. Jessica’s character was occasionally cast as a recurring role then it became an additional series regular after the season one episode “The Blair Bitch Project”. Jessica left the cast of the show at the end of the fourth season and later returned in the sixth season for the series finale, “New York, I Love You XOXO”. Jessica was seen in many small roles in movies such as Somebody Help Me, The Reading Room and Fired Up. Jessica stared in the Dimension Film’s horror Piranha 3D,(a remake of the 1978 comedy horror Piranha) directed by Alexandre Aja. It was released in August 2010 and Jessica was highly praised for her acting skills and thus was awarded with The Breakthrough Actress in Film award at the 2010 Breakthrough of the Year award.
With a perfect body measurements of 32-25-32 inches, beautiful hair and sensational eyes, Jessica Szohr was named in People’s magazine’s “100 most Beautiful People in the world” in 2010.She has about 11 tattoos including her grandparent’s anniversary on her left arm. Her dating list is not very long and includes 4 men till date; one of her boyfriends being the Gossip Girl co-star Ed-Westwick till 2010.she is currently rumored to be dating NFL Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers. In April 2010 Jessica joined the cast of the romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Marriage and then a post –apocalyptic sci-fi movie Hirokin, released in 2012.In October 2011 Jessica finished filming a horror comedy film titled Love bite and a month later filmed the drama Light years .In 2011 Jessica was nominated for the MTV movie Award: Best Scared As S**t Performance for Piranha 3D.In 2013 she appeared as Taylor Swift’s best friend in the music video 22. She was also cast as the female lead in the Fox drama pilot The List as FBI agent Natalie Voss. In the same year she was seen in the movie “The Internship”. Lately in 2014 Jessica made an appearance in the movie, Two Night Stand and also in a music video by A Great Big World titled “Already Home”. Jessica Karen Szohr is doing great in her acting career and by the looks of it, she is here to stay regardless of the gravity of her roles.
by monika, 26 Jun, 2014
