20 Facts About Jennifer Syme

Jennifer Maria Syme was an American actress, personal assistant, and record company executive.

Jennifer Syme was born in Pico Rivera, California, and was raised in Laguna Beach.

Jennifer Syme's parents were Maria St John and Charles Syme, a retired California highway patrol officer, and they divorced some time after Syme was born.

When Jennifer Syme was about to start high school, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Syme developed a passion for moviemaking and especially for David Lynch's films.

Actor and filmmaker Scott Coffey said that Jennifer Syme was 16 years old when she walked into Lynch's office.

Jennifer Syme landed a job at Lynch's company, Asymmetrical Productions, where she started as an intern and ended up working for five years.

Jennifer Syme introduced Lynch to many of the musicians he used in his projects, and according to Coffey, she had a huge influence on the music in the 1997 film Lost Highway.

Jennifer Syme did some acting, and Scott Coffey directed her in five independent short films.

Jennifer Syme was a personal assistant to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and, later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

In 1997, Jennifer Syme made her film debut in a small role credited as "junkie girl" in David Lynch's Lost Highway.

Jennifer Syme had a small role credited as "casting chick" in Scott Coffey's film Ellie Parker, released in 2005, reprising the role she played in the 2001 short film of the same title.

At the time of her death in 2001, Jennifer Syme had enrolled in a film-supervision course at UCLA, and was working as a record company executive.

St John said that Jennifer Syme became very depressed when her grandfather, Alfonso Diaz, died in March 2001.

Jennifer Syme's mother noted that it was the first time she had been back to the hospital since her baby died.

Jennifer Syme drove her Jeep Grand Cherokee into a row of parked cars on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Jennifer Syme was partially ejected from the vehicle and died instantly.

Jennifer Syme was eulogized to the sound of Barbra Streisand's "Higher Ground" and Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" as Lynch screened a series of snapshots from Jennifer Syme's life at the Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills.

Jennifer Syme was buried next to her daughter at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

An investigation into the collision found that Jennifer Syme was not wearing a seatbelt.

Jennifer Syme's mother told police her daughter had recently sought treatment for back pain from an earlier automobile collision, and for depression stemming from her daughter's stillbirth.