Jessica Christina Elena was born in Georgetown, Washington D.C. to musician and stagehand John Fenhagen, (the brother of Production Designer and 16 time Emmy award winner Jim Fenhagen) and a Colombian mother Art and Spanish professor Christina Moreno Trahan. She got her start in acting at the age of seven when she performed as the youngest cast member in a professional production of Our Town. After that she worked with the Hartford Children’s Theater, The Hartford Ballet Company, on the PBS show Abracadabra and in many other regional theaters in Connecticut and Maine. She won a Maine Presidential Award for best actress in the Maine State One Act Play Festival and that same year she was elected an Ambassador of her school for the arts and met Al Gore. All during high school she sang in Honors Chorus’ and Jazz Choirs’. She earned her self a full scholarship to study acting at the University of the Arts Pennsylvania but took a leave of absence to be able to travel and study abroad. She went on to intern with the Bread and Puppet Theater Company and then in Mexico with the Atanor Company led by the late Maria de Cespedes. In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Jessica got “discovered” while singing with her band Tio Mono. A producer named Eric Zavala took her to Mexico City to audition for a bilingual pilot. The pilot never got green lit but the casting director called her in again and she landed her first role in a feature in a Broken Lizard’s Production of "Club Dread" where she shared the screen with Bill Paxton. In Mexico City she worked with the theater director Juan Jose Gurrola, then in Televisa on a season of the hit comedy show "Disenador Ambos Sexos", as a ditzy model, in the independent TV station CNI as a regular in the sketch comedy show "Que Relajo" and in Indi Films alongside actors like Diego Luna and Miguel Rodarte. Doors opened in the fashion world and she modeled for L’Oreal, and in many Mexico City Fashion Weeks for designers like Sarah Bustani and Grypho and got a lot of exposure in doing numerous commercials like the Bacardi campaign alongside Lorenzo Lamas. She also sang with The Poncho Kingz that were signed with BMG and got to travel with them on their South East Asia Tour. In Asia she got into electronic music and went on to record songs that were released with Tip World Records, England. Jessica decided to move to Los Angeles, thanks to the encouragement of the director, Peter Winther whom she met while acting in the TNT movie, "The Librarian: Quest for the Hidden Spear". She is very happy to be in Los Angeles studying with the master teacher Eric Morris, producing and writing her own short films and working up till now in Independent projects. The first job she landed in L.A. was of executive assistant to the late Jay Bernstein a.k.a. "The Star Maker" where she got some of the molding and guiding through the "Hollywood Jungle" he was so famous for giving. She was his last assistant. Life experience like studying Vipassana meditation, yoga and photography and traveling since such a young age has influenced much of what she writes and her personal philosophies and has given her most of her impetus to create character’s and dive into performing with a sense of blissful abandonment. She has also been accredited as Jessica Trahan her adopted father’s last name.
Writting and Producing short films. Poetry. Music. Fine Art. Literature. Avant Guard Film. Photography. Traveling around the world. Dancing to techno music. Creating not consuming. Green effort. Clothing by unique designers. Rare and antique watches.
My goal is to become a great actress that is recognized as an Artist in my trade and to be able to share my success' with my friends, family and others that also work in the creative process of making films, music and theater.
Jessica (ID #5990466)
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