Jessica Cameron is a
Canadian
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horror film
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Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apo ...
actress
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,
director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
, and
producer.
Early life
Cameron was born in
Owen Sound
Owen Sound ( 2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The county seat of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham Rivers on an inlet of Georgian Bay.
The primary tourist attr ...
,
Ontario
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where she graduated high school before moving to Toronto to study fashion at
Ryerson University
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.
Career
Cameron secured a job as a clothing designer in Ohio where she lived for a few years. After taking an acting class through her work, she was selected for a role in the movie ''The Dead Matter'' (2010) which was filmed in 2008. Cameron won the award for "Rising Movie Star" from the 2010 Golden Cobb Awards. Cameron co-starred in the Roger Corman produced SyFy Channel movie ''
Camel Spiders
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'' (2011) and the remake ''
Silent Night
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'' (2012) which starred veteran actor Malcolm McDowell. She acted in several independent productions in the Midwestern United States before making the move to Los Angeles to pursue acting full-time.
Cameron played herself on the TLC series ''Brides of Beverly Hills'' (2011-2012). She runs Small Town Girl Productions, a production company primarily producing genre films, and in 2013 directed her first film, ''
Truth or Dare
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''. Eight months later, she directed ''
Mania
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'', which was part of the documentary film series Kill The Production Assistant. Cameron has also appeared in comic books, music videos, and TV shows and was named "
Scream queen of the Month" by ScreamQueen.com. She was 2015 Guest of
Manchester
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based Grimmfest, where her film ''
Truth or Dare
Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality.Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionarytruth 2005 In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs ...
'' had its European premiere.
Grimmfest 2015
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Filmography
Television and Web Series
References
External links
*
*
Bio
at HorrorSociety.com
on The Grave Plot Podcast
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Living people
Actresses from Ontario
Film directors from Ontario
People from Owen Sound
Canadian film actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women film directors