Jessika Van
| Jessika Van | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jessika Van Los Angeles , California , U.S. |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
| Occupation | Actress , Director |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | IMBD page |
Jessika Van is an American actress, as well as singer-songwriter, pianist and dancer. Van is most known for playing "Becca," the ringleader of the Asians or the Asian mafia on Season 2 and Season 3 of MTV's Awkward. She also plays Kim, a Hong Kong Police Officer and sister of Detective Lee in the Rush Hour TV series. Van also portrays the lead soldier character "Hannah" (with her voice, motion capture performance, and digital likeness) in the game Battlefield 4.
Van recently stars as Grace Park opposite Justin Chon (who plays love interest Sid Park) in Benson Lee's film Seoul Searching (2015), which will make its premiere as an official selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. She also played the role of the Sports Bar Waitress in the film The Gambler (2014) in a scene opposite both John Goodman and Mark Wahlberg where she remarks to Wahlberg not to pin the choice of beer on her; the film was directed by Rupert Wyatt and written by Oscar-award-winning screenwriter William Monahan. Van also starred as Annie in Junya Sakino's Sake-Bomb (2013) (also written by Jeff Mizushima) which premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. She also starred in Byron Q's film Bang Bang (2011), which won a Special Jury Award for Best First Feature, Narrative, at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. She also starred as Mia Ho in Danny Roth's feature comedy Foreign Exchange (2008).
Van currently plays the reoccurring character "Koa Lin" on CW's The Messengers. Van also played the reoccurring character "Becca", the ringleader of the Asians, and the primary antagonist to Ming Huang (Jessica Lu) on MTV's Awkward. Van has also appeared on other TV shows such as playing a Goth character named "Sunshine" on Disney's A.N.T. Farm, playing "Stacey Tan" in the 2009 Without A Trace episode "Devotion," opposite David Huynh, and playing the kidnapped Nikki Sun (Nikki Sun '89) on an episode of Cold Case, "Triple Threat" (2008).
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