Jessica Cauffiel was born March 30, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan. Her mother was a police investigator and her father was a true crime author and television documentary producer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre at the University of Michigan and is a trained singer who has studied for over 14 years in the Western Classical, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Pop, Blues, and Eastern Devotional vocal mediums.

 Jessica began her career Off-Broadway starring in the critically acclaimed musical “1001 Nights”, which later lead to a role in the pilot for the show Stark Raving Mad (she was later re-casted by another actress) and her first role in a feature film as the daughter of Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin in The Out-Of-Towners. Small roles on television shows like Fraiser, Law & Order and The Drew Carey Show followed later. Jessica has had the most success in feature films, with roles in Road Trip, Valentine, Legally Blonde 1 & 2, White Chicks and Hoot that have made her a talent to watch.

 Aside from her time spent in Hollywood, Jessica loves to travel the world and study its many cultures and traditions. She has traveled several times to India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru as well as throughout Europe and the Americas and has spent much time in the great mountain ranges of the Himalayas and the Andes. Jessica also speaks several languages including Hindi, French, Indonesian and Thai.

 Jessica also continues to sing. Jessica and reknowned Bollywood percussionist and composer Sivamani performed live in Dharamsala, India for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and approximately 20,000 other monks and visitors from around the world, on occasion of the March 10th, 2004 anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. This was the first time in the 45 year history of this event, that any musicians or entertainers had performed. Jessica and Sivamani are also currently writing an album together.

 Jessica is active in several non-profit, NGOs that serve to bring inter-faith harmony amongst the many cultures and spiritual orientations of the world. She also is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, a practitioner of shamanic energy medicine (Shamanism), and has been trained in several healing modalities, including the various indigenous traditions of the Americas.

Biography last updated: December 25, 2007
Written exclusively by Jennifer for Jessica Cauffiel Fan.