1. Jessica Dominique Marais is a South African-born Australian former actress.
28 Facts About Jessica Marais
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Jessica Marais is best known for her roles in Australian television.
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Jessica Marais's accolades include 5 Logie Awards and 9 nominations, as well as 2 Equity Ensemble Awards nominations.
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Jessica Marais later starred in the Nine Network drama series, Love Child and the Network 10 drama series, The Wrong Girl.
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Jessica Marais played the role of evil mord sith, Mistress Denna in the Legend of the Seeker.
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Jessica Marais attended a Catholic co-educational school John XXIII College in Claremont for a year, before transferring to St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Mosman Park.
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Jessica Marais attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art where she graduated in 2007.
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Jessica Marais was attending NIDA when she was cast in the role of Rachel Rafter on the television comedy drama series Packed to the Rafters.
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Jessica Marais went on to earn several accolades for the role.
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Jessica Marais was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2010 and 2011, losing out to her screen-mother Rebecca Gibney and Asher Keddie.
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In February 2011 it was announced that Jessica Marais had left the show, with her final episode airing on 23 August 2011.
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Jessica Marais starred in the series from Season One until Season Four from 2008 to 2012.
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Jessica Marais made cameo appearances in the final episode of season 4 on 20 March 2012 and in the series finale on 2 July 2013.
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Jessica Marais starred in Rai Fazio's film Two Fists, One Heart with fellow Perth actor Tim Minchin and Daniel Amalm which was released in March 2009.
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Jessica Marais guest-starred in the American series, Legend of the Seeker filmed in Auckland New Zealand, playing the role of the Mord'Sith Mistress Denna.
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Jessica Marais underwent some fight training to do fight scenes with Richard Cypher.
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Jessica Marais was cast in Magic City, a Starz drama series created by Mitch Glazer and set in 1959 Miami, Florida, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.
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Jessica Marais starred alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Danny Huston in the series that ran for two seasons.
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In 2014, Jessica Marais starred in a new production of Cosi by Australian playwright Louis Nowra and directed by David Berthold at La Boite Theatre Building in Brisbane.
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Also in 2014, Jessica Marais had the lead role on Channel Nine's Love Child, where she played the character Dr Joan Millar.
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Jessica Marais has since appeared on all four seasons of this show.
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Since 2016, Jessica Marais had the lead role in Channel Ten's drama The Wrong Girl.
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Jessica Marais was nominated for the Gold Logie in 2017 and 2018.
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Jessica Marais was engaged to former Packed to the Rafters co-star James Stewart in 2009.
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However, in May 2015 Jessica Marais announced that she and Stewart had ended their 5-year engagement amicably.
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Jessica Marais and Stewart have a daughter together born in May 2012.
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Jessica Marais was reported as saying she would return to work filming the second series of Magic City while Stewart would be the baby's full-time caregiver.
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Jessica Marais still has family living in her native South Africa, whom she visits.