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Jess Bradford

Jess Bradford (Jessica Bradford) is the protagonist of Black Christmas (1974), played by Olivia Hussey; a pregnant sorority sister who plans an abortion, kills boyfriend Peter, and is an early horror final girl with an ambiguous fate.

Jess Bush

Jess Bush (Jessica Bush, born 1992, Brisbane) is an Australian actor, model, and visual artist who plays Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, earning a 2022 Saturn Award nomination, and creates the Bee Totem bee-resin art series.

Jess Chanliau

Jess Chanliau, American-French non-binary actor, movement artist, and singer; RCS graduate; played Ronnie Buckhurst in Netflix's The Diplomat (2023–2024) and Stone in Inmate Zero/Patients of a Saint.

Jess Day (character)

Jessica Christopher "Jess" Day is the main character of Fox's New Girl (2011–2018), played by Zooey Deschanel. Created by Liz Meriwether, she is a schoolteacher turned vice principal who moves in with three men; marketed as "adorkable."

Jess Harnell

Jess Harnell (born 1963, Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American voice actor and singer: Wakko Warner in Animaniacs, announcer of America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998, Ironhide in Transformers, Crash Bandicoot, and Rock Sugar frontman.

Jess Hilarious

Jess Hilarious (Jessica Robin Moore) is a Baltimore-born stand-up comedian, actress, and 2024 third co-host of The Breakfast Club, known for the viral "Jess With the Mess" skits, Wild 'N Out, the Fox sitcom Rel, and her memoir 'Til Death Do We Parent.

Jess Lapid

Jess Lapid was a Filipino action film star of the 1960s, famous for Kardong Kidlat (1964), who began as a stuntman and was fatally shot in a nightclub on July 13, 1968.

Jess McLeod

Jess McLeod (born 1997, Victoria, British Columbia), also credited as Jessica McLeod, is a Canadian trans nonbinary actor and filmmaker known for Janae Matthews in One of Us Is Lying, It's a Wonderful Knife, Normal, and the short She's Nonbinary; distinct from the New York theatre director of the same name.

Jess Walton

Jess Walton, American actress born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and raised in Toronto, joined The Young and the Restless in June 1987 as Jill Foster Abbott and won the 1997 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Jess Weixler

Jess Weixler (Jessica Weixler) is an American actress from Louisville, Kentucky, a Juilliard classmate of Jessica Chastain, who won the 2007 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Teeth and works mainly in independent film and television.

Jess Wright

Jess Wright (Jessica Sophia Wright, born 1985) is the English TOWIE original cast member (2010-2016), distinct from the psychiatrist and the folk singer of the same name; later author, beauty entrepreneur, and podcaster.

Jessabelle

Jessabelle (2014) is an American supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert, written by Robert Ben Garant, starring Sarah Snook; a Blumhouse/Lionsgate release about a spirit haunting a Louisiana bayou home, with a 37 Metascore and 29% Tomatometer.

Jessalyn Gilsig

Jessalyn Gilsig, Canadian actress born 1971 in Montreal, trained at Harvard's American Repertory Theatre; known for Lauren Davis in Boston Public, Gina Russo in Nip/Tuck, Terri Schuester in Glee, and Siggy in Vikings.

Jesse (TV series)

Jesse (TV series) is the NBC sitcom (1998–2000, 42 episodes) starring Christina Applegate as single mother Jesse Warner, created by Ira Ungerleider; distinct from Disney Channel's Jessie (2011–2015).

Jesse Armstrong

Jesse Armstrong (born 1970) is a British screenwriter and producer, co-creator of Peep Show, co-writer of In the Loop and Four Lions, creator-showrunner of HBO's Succession (four Emmy writing wins), and writer-director of the 2025 HBO film Mountainhead.

Jesse Baird

Jesse Alan Baird (1997-2024) was an Australian Network 10 TV presenter (Totally Wild, Gamify, Studio 10) and AFL goal umpire, Heritage No. 350; killed with Luke Davies in February 2024, with former officer Beau Lamarre-Condon charged.

Jesse Birdsall

Jesse Birdsall (born 1963, Highbury, London) is an English actor known for Nick Beckett in Bugs, Roger Webb in Footballers' Wives, Fraser Black in Hollyoaks, and Marcus Tandy in Eldorado.

Jesse Borrego

Jesse Borrego (born 1962) is a Mexican-American and Native American actor from San Antonio, Texas, known for Jesse V. Valesquez in Fame, Cruz in Blood In, Blood Out, Gael Ortega in 24, and George King in Dexter, plus stage work and San Antonio film advocacy.

Jesse Bradford

Jesse Bradford (Jesse Bradford Watrouse, born 1979) is an American actor known for King of the Hill (1993), Bring It On (2000), Swimfan, and Flags of Our Fathers, plus TV roles on The West Wing, Shooter, and High Potential.

Jesse Chambers

Jesse Chambers, aka Jesse Quick, Flash, and Liberty Belle, is a DC Comics legacy heroine created by Len Strazewski and Mike Parobeck in 1992, daughter of Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, with speed and strength powers.

Jesse Custer

Jesse Custer, also called Preacher, is the protagonist of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo comic Preacher (1995, 66 issues) and the AMC series (2016-2019). A Texas preacher merged with Genesis, he holds the Word of God power to command obedience and hunts an absent God with Tulip and Cassidy.

Jesse Dylan

Jesse Dylan (Jesse Byron Dylan), American director and producer born 1966 in New York, son of Bob Dylan; directed How High, American Wedding, Kicking & Screaming, the Emmy-winning Yes We Can video, and Soros, and founded Wondros and Lybba.

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983, New York) is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker, Oscar-nominated as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010), later a Razzie-winning Lex Luthor, and the writer-director of A Real Pain and The Debut.

Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter

Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter, the All My Children supercouple played by Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan, regarded as daytime's first Black supercouple, married 1983, separated by Jesse's 1988 presumed death, reunited 2008.

Jesse James (1939 film)

Jesse James (1939) is a Henry King Technicolor Western from Twentieth Century-Fox starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Nancy Kelly; Fox's top 1939 hit and the first true Western in three-color Technicolor.

Jesse James (actor)

Jesse James (actor) refers chiefly to the American actor born 1989 in Palm Springs, a former child star of As Good as It Gets, Pearl Harbor, Blow, The Butterfly Effect, and The Amityville Horror; the name is also used by actors Jesse James Keitel and a Texas-based performer.

Jesse James (television personality)

Jesse James (Jesse Gregory James, born 1969, Long Beach, California), founder of West Coast Choppers and host of Discovery's Monster Garage; distinct from the outlaw, Jesse James Decker, and actors named Jesse James.

Jesse James Keitel

Jesse James Keitel is an American actor and artist from eastern Long Island, known for the role of Jerrie Kennedy on the ABC drama Big Sky.

Jesse James West

Jesse James West, also known as JJW, is an American fitness YouTuber and natural bodybuilder from Sparta, New Jersey, born in 2000, with about 11 million YouTube subscribers, the Stay Relentless brand, and the Team Relentless Skool community.

Jesse Jane

Jesse Jane (Cynthia Ann Howell, 1980-2024), American adult film star, Digital Playground contract performer, lead of Pirates and Pirates II, mainstream cameos, died in Moore, Oklahoma of accidental overdose.