Jessica Sharples is an award-winning actor-writer-producer based in Los Angeles. With a B.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she most recently wrote, produced, and starred in her second short film Hostile Exchange which will be running the 2025 festival circuit. Her first short film Jen, 28, an every woman story about the misunderstood “gray area” of sexual assault, was selected to screen at 35 film festivals and won 14 awards. Jessica won 3 Best Actress Awards for her performance. You can also see her in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC), True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (ID), and countless commercials.
Jessica's work explores the innate power women have when they are able to break free of societal expectations and express their truth. By exposing the dark but very real aspects of her experience as a woman, she creates containers for untold or ignored stories to finally be seen.
