Jessica Carlson

Jessica Carlson (born c. 1993) is an American actress from New York City, known for her role as Rebecca the monkey girl in the Universal's Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.

Carlson and Hayek while shooting Universal Studio's Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant in 2009

Career

Besides Cirque du Freak, Carlson has been in "Wonder of the World" and Blue Dress, The Life Before Her Eyes, Goyta, the Law & Order episode "Angelgrove", and The Big C episode "Blue-Eyed Iris". She played Laurie in an equity production of Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Emelin theater in Larchmont. Carlson also played Liesel Meminger in a "movie trailer" for the novel The Book Thief at the Teen Book Video Awards.^[1]

For her role in Cirque du Freak, Carlson won Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film at the 2010 Young Artist Awards.

She attended Wesleyan University and The New School.

Film and TV

• Blue Dress
• Goyta
• The Life Before Her Eyes
• Law & Order
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
• The Big C
• A Future to Hold
• The Man in the Woods