Biography

Jessica De Gouw is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the television series Arrow, as Mina Murray in the NBC TV series Dracula, and as Elizabeth Hawkes in the WGN series Underground.

Jessica grew up in Lesmurdie, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, where she attended Lesmurdie Senior High School. She appeared in an episode of The Sleepover Club, as well as a short film. In 2010, she graduated from Curtin University at the age of 22, majoring in performance studies. She also appeared in another short film the same year.

De Gouw moved to Sydney in order to have a greater opportunity for acting roles. She appeared in a number of TV series, mostly in guest starring roles. In 2012, she debuted in the film Kath & Kimderella as Isabella, Kath and Kim's maid. She moved to Los Angeles later that year and landed the recurring role of the Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the action-adventure series, Arrow. In 2013, De Gouw was cast in the NBC series Dracula as Mina Murray alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. The series lasted only 10 episodes, and NBC announced on 9 May 2014 that the show would not be renewed for another season. In 2016, De Gouw was cast as fictional abolitionist Elizabeth Hawkes in the WGN series, Underground. She played the lead role Ren Amari in the 2017 feature film OtherLife based on the novel Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge.
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Raven black hair

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Deep light blue eyes

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Graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication and Cultural Studies - Performance Studies) from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Before relocating to Los Angeles, California, she made her big screen debut in an Australian film titled Kath & Kimderella.

She earned a performing arts degree from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She first appeared on television in a 2006 episode of The Sleepover Club.

After playing a recurring role on the CW series Arrow, this actress landed roles as Mina Murray on NBC's Dracula and as Elizabeth Hawkes on WGN's Underground. Her other credits include episodes of Tricky Business and Underbelly: Razor.

She and Jonathan Rhys Meyers were both in the cast of the short-lived Dracula series.