Biography

It wasn't a surprise.

Jeanne won eight Leading Actress Awards, 2020 Accolade Film Competition, 2020 IndieFEST Competition (for Mrs. Carmody & Mrs. Jellineck); 2014 Women's Independent Film Festival, 2013 & 2014 at Best Shorts Competition, 2014 at The Accolade Competition and 2013 & 2014 at IndieFEST, for her performance in The Co-Star & The Co-Star: Master Acting Class. Other awards for The Co-Star include Best Comedy, Audience Favorite and Women Filmmakers. Her second short, The Co-Star: Master Acting Class won Short Film at Indie Fest, 2014 and Best Screenplay at Women's Independent Film Festival in 2014. In 2020, her web series, Mrs. Carmody & Mrs. Jellineck, won awards for Best Series, Women Filmmakers at Accolade Competition; at IndieFEST in 2020, her web series also won awards for the series itself, Script and Writer (Jeanne).

The Co-Star, premiered at L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival, April 2013. In 2014, her second short film, The Co-Star: Master Acting Class premiered at the Egyptian Theatre as part of American Cinematheque's 9th Annual Review of Female Directors and was the only comedy screened. Jeanne wrote and is producing a feature length horror/thriller as her next project entitled The Bottom of Fallow Lake.

During the 1980's, Jeanne earned her Actor's Equity Union candidate points by playing various character roles at Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan and Detroit's Attic Theatre. She then moved to Chicago to pursue her stage career and worked at Victory Gardens, New City Theatre and Zebra Crossing Theater to name a few.