Meet Jessica Lucas

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For those of you who couldn’t stand the shaky cam, first person style of the 2008 flick Cloverfield, Jessia Lucas‘ face is probably new – unless you frequent the CW and are a fan of the resurrected Melrose Place. But I’ll get into that a little bit later as this profile is going to go into more background information than anything. Jessica Lucas is another talented Vancouver girl who is going to make a huge splash in Hollywood sooner or later. Her career started on stage, like most, and after some childrens’ parts in prodictions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderalla, a teenage Lucas jumped onto the Canadian after-school-special-style drama Edgemont opposite Kristin Kruek in 2001. Lucas played the pat of Bekka Lawrwence for the better part of four years before Edgemont was finally cut. What followed is the typical floater times for a professional actor that involved a lot of auditions, bit parts and guest starring roles.

Although Edgemont was a slight success, Hollywood wasn’t causing Lucas to leave the phone off the hook. She found herself on a random episode of The L Word, a canceled ABC series called Life As We Know It and landed small parts on movies like She’s The Man and The Covenant. Then Lucas landed a bit of a break. She was cast as Ronnie Lake on CSI bacck in 2007 and it looked like she would continue as a series regular for a few seasons. But, like so many other bad decisions made on CSI, her character was mysteriously written off after barely a season.

It looked like Lucas was going to hit on some hard times and possibly deal with a life of pilots and short lived guest starring roles (don’t read that as a bad thing by the way), but then came the big call. The real call. The call that really changed everything and put her in front of millions of people on the big screen. Jessica Lucas was cast to play a major role in the 2008 super monster-destroying-NYC flick Cloverfield and got to work with JJ Abrams. Like many performers, the key is usually JJ as it seems like whatever he touches turns to diamond. After the huge success of Colverfield (earning just shy of 200 million bucks), Lucas landed a guest starring role on the new 90210 as Kim MacIntyre and carried a four episode arc.

The peeps over at the CW must have seen something as after her stint on 90210, she was contacted about a starring role on the new Melrose Place. Jessica Lucas currently plays kindergarten teacher and resident good-girl Riley Richmond on the show and from the looks of things, her face could be popping up in a few more places soon. She is currently filming another installment of the Martin Lawrence movie franchise Big Mommas House in a sequel titled Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.