With a personal story that eerily parallels her first major role as a small-town girl thrust from obscurity into the haute couture world of supermodel divas and the media elite in the media satire Stardom (2000), Jessica Pare remains in the friendly, small-town mindset despite her good fortune of having stumbled into that role on a lark.
Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1982, into a close-knit family not at all involved in the showbiz world, Pare decided to pursue an acting career after dropping out of the fine arts program at Montreal College. Gaining early acting experience with small roles in the made-for-television mafia drama Bonanno: A Godfather's Story and following with En Vacances (both 1999), Pare's more...
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