- Source of Wealth: TV and Film
- Age: 39
- Birth Place: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Marital Status: Divorced to Joseph Smith
- Nationality: Canadian
- Date of Birth: December 5, 1980
- Occupation: Actress
Canadian film and television actress Jessica Pare has an estimated net worth of $6 million and a salary per episode of $20 thousand. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on December 5, 1980, she is the daughter of Anthony Pare, the former chair of the education department at McGill University, and Louise Mercier, a conference interpreter. Both parents were born actors. She had three brothers and they grew up in the Montreal neighborhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace. She is bilingual. She speaks both English and French. Her family is Catholic and she attended Villa Maria, a private Catholic girl’s high school in Montreal. She studied drama at TheatreWorks and she appeared in more than half a dozen amateur theater productions as a teenager such as the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood and Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Jessica Pare made her debut with a small role in the television movie Bonnano: A Godfather’s Story on her final year in high school. Her first head-turner performance was in the film Stardom (2010). She broke hearts in Lost and Delirious (2001). She played the catalyst for karmic intervention in Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) and somehow pulled off being a secret villain in Posers (2003). She was also part of the Gemini-nominated mini-series Random Passage (2002). She was seen on CTV as Nancy Eaton in The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003) and Lives of the Saints (2004). Her Hollywood debut came when she played the role of Josh Hartnett’s fiancée in Wicker Park (2004). Since then, she has performed in other American productions both on television and the big screen.
Pare appeared in Hot Tub Machine (2010) and co-starred in the vampire horror-comedy Suck (2009). She stars in the AMC television series Mad Men. She married American writer and producer Joseph Smith in 2007 but they had divorced.