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Jessica Cauffiel Profile |
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Birth Date: March 30, 1976
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Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Birth Name: Jessica Cauffiel
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Height: 5'4"
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Biography |
Jessica Cauffiel is an American film
and television actress.
Cauffiel was born in Detroit, Michigan; her father, Lowell
Cauffiel, is a true crime author and television producer.
She received a "Bachelor of Fine Arts degree" in Musical
Theatre at the University of Michigan.
Cauffiel's first film role was a supporting part in the 1999
remake of the "The Out-of-Towners". In 2000, she appeared in
minor roles in both Road Trip and Urban Legends: Final Cut,
and played one of the main characters in the 2001 horror
film, Valentine. That year, Maxim magazine featured her in
the publication and their online Girls of Maxim gallery.
Cauffiel subsequently appeared in several more films aimed
at a teenage audience, including both Legally Blonde films
and the 2004 comedy, White Chicks.
Cauffiel can speak with a German accent, and has played a
Russian in the movie D.E.B.S. (as an assassin) and in three
episodes of My Name Is Earl (as a mail order bride called
Tatiana with a large mole).
Cauffiel is a trained singer, and has studied for over 14
years in the Western Classical, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Pop,
Blues, and Eastern Devotional vocal mediums. She and
renowned Bollywood percussionist and composer Sivamani, with
whom she is currently writing an album, performed live in
Dharamsala, India for the 14th Dalai Lama and approximately
20,000 other monks and visitors from around the world, on
the occasion of the March 10th, 2004 anniversary of the
Tibetan National Uprising Day. She also sang on the World
Music Grammy finalist album, "Shanti", by Snatam Kaur.
Cauffiel, who is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor,
often travels to India and speaks Hindi. She is active in
several non-profit Non-governmental organizations that serve
to bring inter-faith harmony amongst the many cultures and
spiritual orientations of the world. |
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She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Musical
Theatre at The University of Michigan.
Father is bestselling true-crime author and producer,
'Lowell Cauffiel.' They are also occasional writing
partners. Currently, they have a one hour television project
in development.
Originally auditioned for the role of Paige Prescott in
Valentine (2001), but the role eventually went to Denise
Richards. However, director Jamie Blanks still wanted her in
the film, and gave her the role of Lily Voight, which was
expanded for her.
Plays a redhead for the first time in the movie White
Chicks.
Agreed to play the role of Ninotchka, the Russian assassin
in the action-comedy D.E.B.S. (2004), as long as they hired
her friend Ines Wurth, a Croatian who had also lived in
Russia, as the dialect coach - because she didn't want to
"fake" a Russian accent.
Is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor.
Sings (credited) on World Music Grammy Finalist album,
"Shanti," by Snatam Kaur Khalsa.
Real-life best friend and writing partner is Alanna Ubach,
who plays best friend "Serena" in Legally Blonde (2001).
They met at Alanna's audition. Jessica had already been cast
as "Margot," and was asked by Robert Luketic to watch
several actresses vying for the part of Serena. When Alanna
walked into the audition, she pulled Jessica aside and said,
"Kid, help me out here. I've gotta make rent." Jessica was
so charmed by her that she got up and read the scene with
her for the actual audition...and Margot and Serena were
born.
Loves to travel the world and study its many cultures and
traditions. She has traveled several times to India, Nepal,
Tibet, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru as well as
throughout Europe and the Americas. She has spent much time
in the great mountain ranges of the Himalayas and the Andes.
She speaks several languages, including Hindi, French,
Indonesian and Thai. She is active in several non-profit,
NGOs that serve to bring inter-faith harmony amongst the
many cultures and spiritual orientations of the world.
She and reknowned Bollywood percussionist and composer
Sivamani performed live in Dharamsala, India for His
Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and approximately 20,000 other
monks and visitors from around the world, on occasion of the
March 10th, 2004 anniversary of the Tibetan National
Uprising Day. This was the first time in the 45 year history
of this event, that any musicians or entertainers had
performed.
She is a trained singer, who has studied for over 14 years
in Western Classical, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Pop, Blues, and
Eastern Devotional vocal mediums.
She is currently writing an album with world-renowned Indian
percussionist and composer, "The Wizard," Sivamani. Sivamani
has played with thousands of diverse artists, ranging from
Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, rapper Jay-Z and jazz great
John McLaughlin - to revered Indian Maestros Zakir Hussein,
tabla, mandolin Maestro U. Srinivasan, El Shankar, and
Shankar Mahadevan of the famous Shankar/Ehsaan/Loy Bollywood
writing team. Sivamani is best known as the right hand man
of internationally acclaimed Bollywood virtuoso composer
A.R. Rahman , and has composed and played on hundreds of pop
and hit film soundtracks, as well as Rahman and Andrew Lloyd
Webber's Broadway smash, Bombay Dreams.
Audtioned for the role in Stuck on You that ended up going
to Wen Yann Shih, but the Farrellys liked her so much they
asked her to do a cameo as the girl Damon and Kinnear hit on
in a bar.
Her left eye is partly brown, like fellow actress Kate
Bosworth.
Her favorite film is "The Goonies," and she has been known
to recite the entire movie from memory.
Is trained in the Shamanic Energy Medicine healing
traditions of the Americas, the lineage of the Q'ero
Nation--the last living descendants of the Inka. She is a
member of the Four Winds Society, under the tutelage of Dr.
Alberto Villoldo, a renowned medical anthropologist,
psychologist, author, and master practitioner of energy
medicine.
She began her career Off-Broadway starring in the critically
acclaimed musical "1001 Nights," written and composed by
Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Robert Lopez (IV) ,
best known for his Broadway smash hit "Avenue Q." |
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