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Jessica trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, in the early days of its founding, after two years with the National Youth Theatre.  From there, she got her first professional job in Borstal Boy at the Gaiety Theatre. Since then, Jessica has worked on many productions across stage, screen, Theatre-in-Education and street theatre.

Jessica's most recent work includes Climate 2050, to be shown on RTE in November 2023.  She will also appear in John Carney’s upcoming film, Flora and Son.  Theatre credits include: Gregory - a celebration of the plays of Lady Gregory - playing Bridget in Cathleen Ní Houlihan, in the Dolman Theatre; Margaret, in Charlotte Keatley’s award-winning play, My Mother Said I Never Should, at the Viking Theatre; multiple roles in A Titter of Wit – a revue of two hundred years of the best of Irish comic writing – at the Irish Writers’ Centre; Ma, in Bad Sunday and Linda, in Bear Hug - both at Bewley’s Café Theatre; Mrs O’Leary, in Bernard Farrell’s One, Two, Three O’Leary, with Barnstorm Theatre Co (National Tour) and Kate, in Christina Reid’s Joyriders, at the New Theatre. Television credits include the 2015 IFTA-winning docudrama on TG4, Cumann na mBan - Mná na Réabhlóide, in which she played Kathleen Clarke Fair City (RTE) My Life’s a Jungle (RTE2) Custer’s Last Stand-Up (RTE/BBC) Fómhar Searbh, Geimhreadh Geal (TG4) and Saol Eile, Scéal Eile (TG4).

A skilled improviser. Jessica has worked extensively in both medical and business role-play. She has also worked on many ad campaigns, voiceovers and training films, as well as recording a number of audio-books for the NCBI.

She has also written her first play, entitled Holloway, which has had two successful public readings, in both the New Theatre in 2021 and City Hall last year.  She is currently working on staging a full production.