Jessica Lowndes was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 8, 1988. She attended Pacific Academy, a private Christian school in the Fraser Heights neighbourhood of Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. Jessica began her career when she was shopping in Vancouver with her mom and spontaneously decided to go to an open audition for a movie. Although she didn’t get the role, she did land an agent and soon started acting professionally. She was discovered in her hometown Vancouver by the producers of “Masters” and after that her career started. She has been singing for her entire life, and acting since she was fifteen.
She began her career starring in a movie called Saving Milly (2005) and appeared as a guest in series such as “Masters of Horror”, “Kyle XY” and “Alice, I Think”. Her next film role was a supporting role in the Lifetime movie To Have and to Hold released in 2006, this was followed in 2007 by another TV Movie Pretty/Handsome. Her her first big role was as Mandi on the show Greek (2008) and that same year she landed a recurring role in the series 90210 a spin-off of the 90s TV teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 as Adrianna Tate-Duncan. In November 2008 her role was upgraded to series regular. That became her big breakthrough. Adrianna is a troubled teen with drug problems and Jessica needed to do research before she could poitray her: “Honestly, like, I don’t even have experience with drugs. I take Tylenol if I have a headache. That’s it.” she says. But all of the fans of Jessica and the show thinks that she’s doing a great job.
Next up for Jessica, besides 90210, is two horror movies called “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” and “Autopsy”.
Jessica made her musical debut in the pilot episode of her 2008 series 90210 singing in the shows fictional school play, in the 2009 episode “Woman’s Intuition”. She serenaded her character’s boyfriend, singing and playing the guitar.
In March 2009 she added the song Fly Away onto her myspace page. She was both the writer, singer and lead guitarist in the track. She is yet to sign a deal with a record label but has made it clear that she is definitely interested in launching a recording career in the future.
In the 90210 episode “What’s Past is Prologue” Jessica sang “Jolene” in audition for a rock band. She also sang a few other songs as the leader female vocals in the band, The Glorious Steinems, on the show. In September 2009, she sang God Bless America at a Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium. Jessica performed also “One More Time” (feat. Diego Gonzalez) in the 90210 episode (season 2, episode 20, the final scene).
