Jessica Grace Smith
Jessica Grace Smith was born in Taihape, New Zealand. She graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School with a bachelor of performing arts in 2009. An actor, writer, director and producer, Smith appeared in the long-running and award-winning Australian drama series, Home & Away, between 2014 and 2015. Her first short film, Everybody Else Is Taken– the story of a young girl who refuses to let her gender define her –premiered at the New York International Children's Film Festival in 2017.