Birth Name: Jessica Karen Szohr
Birth Date: 31st March, 1985
Birth Place: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Age: 23

Background:
Jessica’s ethnicity is quite varied as she comes from a Hungarian and African-American background. She attended Menomonee Falls High School, in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

Career & Works:
At the age of seventeen, Szohr started modeling with Kohl’s Departmental Store being her first assignment. Later she also modeled for Sears, Mountain Dew, Crate and Barrel, Jockey, Quaker Oats, Jan Sport and ‘Seventeen’ magazine (featuring an ad for Claire’s Boutique)
Her most notable work has been as “Vanessa Abrams” in the hit teen drama Gossip Girl. Apart from that she has appeared in the video by Daughtry names “Over You”. Her other works on TV include House at the End of the Drive, What About Brian, The Reading Room, My Wife And Kids, Drake & Josh, What I Like About You, Uncle Nino, Somebody Help Me, CSI: Miami, That's So Raven and Joan of Arcadia.

Gossip Girl/ Vanessa Abrams:

The former love and childhood friend of Dan Humphrey, Vanessa later bonds up well with Serena, when learns about the duo’s affair, decides to suppress her love for Dan. She runs a café, as she is home schooled, and aspires to be a film maker one day. She helps others in their studies, especially Jenny whom she agrees to home school when she decides to enter the modeling world and quit school. She also helps Dan in his SAT and while she is impressed with one of Nate’s essays, they get closer to each other. She is quite a notable character as she is in close contact with the upper class suave teen world but is never a part of it.