Biography

Jessica Francis Mills began studying drama at the age of 14, under the legendary and highly-regarded Jerry P. Worsham, whose other students include Kevin Alejandro, of Southland, True Blood, and Shark, among many others in theater, film, and music. During her years there, Worsham's program was selected to receive the prestigious John D. Rockefeller Arts in Education Award.

At Stephen F. Austin State University, Mills began performing her freshman year and was soon playing lead roles in such important productions as The Seagull, Terra Nova, Awake and Sing!, Ghosts, and Moon Over Buffalo.

After her junior year, she was one of only two Theater students (one male, one female) chosen to study at the renowned Rose Bruford College in London, where she spent a year and performed supporting roles in such landmark plays as The Taming of the Shrew.

After graduation, Mills spent several years doing off-off Broadway in New York City, before moving to Los Angeles, where she was quickly accepted into the well respected Ark Theater Company, where she performed in The London Cuckolds under the direction of Richard Tatum. (The Girl Who Would Be King).

Recently, Mills has created her own production company, Project A Productions. She has written, produced, and co-starred in a comic web series, Awkward Embraces, about a hot but geeky girl who remains somewhat clueless about men, and the friends who attempt to help her but have their own misadventures, (think Sex in the City meets The Big Bang Theory).

Mills has also written, produced, and co-starred in a movie trailer for a supernatural thriller, Death Echoes, about a detective whose serial-killer father's murders are being copied years later, and the only hope he has of figuring out who's committing the new crimes is to enlist the help of his emotionally damaged sister, who sees visions of murders months or even years later, in the locations where they have occurred.

Mills is a member of SAG and can be seen in Ben Stiller's latest movie, Greenberg.
- IMDb mini biography by: Deanie Mills