Jessica Lee Rose

Jessica Lee Rose Life Story

Rose was born in Salisbury, Maryland, U.S., and was brought up in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She attended Mount Maunganui College in 2000-2001 for part of her secondary school education. Afterward, she was home schooled while attending an acting class at Studio 111 in Auckland. In January 2004, she moved to Auckland to study make-up at the Academy of Film and Television Work. She has previously done make-up and costume work on a New Zealand short film titled Us, as well as doing extras' make-up on the set of Peter Jackson's King Kong. She played a leading role in a short film titled Dearly Beloved.She also played in the scatologically themed short film Unleash the Fury.

After Rose's parents divorced in 2004, she returned to Salisbury in May 2005 to live with her father while saving for university. She then enrolled in the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Universal City, California. She is a graduate of the NYFA's one-year acting for film program.

In June 2006, Rose debuted on lonelygirl15, as a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in many video blogs on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The mystery surrounding the possible fictionality of her character led to an outing by the Los Angeles Times which thrust her into the mainstream spotlight. In 2007, Rose won a Webby for this role.

After Bree was killed off lonelygirl15 in August 2007, Rose played "Jen K." on ABC Family's Greek. She went on to appear in various movies, such as Perfect Sport and SyFy's Ghost Town, and other web series, such as Hooking Up and Sorority Forever. She signed on to do the independent movie 'Look At Me' with her 'Lonelygirl15' Co-Star Yousef Abu Taleb in March 2010.