Jessica Sharples
Also credited as Jess
Jessica Sharples is an internationally award-winning actor-writer-producer and singer whose work in film, TV and live performance explores the innate power women have when they are able to break free of societal expectations and express their truth. By exposing the dark but very real aspects of her experience as a woman, Jessica creates containers for untold or ignored stories to finally be seen. Her work inspires audiences to empathize with the Woman Experience and, in turn, treat women better in their everyday lives. Jessica wrote, produced, and starred in the short film "Jen, 28" - an every woman story about the misunderstood "gray area" of sexual assault. Her timely film was selected to screen at 35 film festivals all over the world and won 14 awards. Jessica won 3 Best Actress Awards for her performance. Her second short film "Hostile Exchange" is in pre-production and is set to hit the film festival circuit at the end of 2024. You can also see her in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC), True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (ID), and several commercials.
