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name: "Jessica Paré"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jessica-pare"
fi1m_id: "jessica-pare"
imdb_id: "nm0664175"
tmdb_id: 82096
wikidata_id: "Q263533"
roles: ["Actor","Director"]
born: "5 December 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T00:15:46.144174+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jessica Paré

## Identity

Jessica Paré

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jessica-pare
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jessica-pare
- **IMDb ID:** nm0664175
- **TMDB ID:** 82096
- **Wikidata ID:** Q263533
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Par%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0664175/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82096

Actor and director. Born 5 December 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director
- **Born:** 5 December 1980, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Also known as:** ジェシカ・パレ, جسیکا پاره
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 88 (1), 2010s 83 (1), 2020s 56 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Romance 1, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $62m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Par%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0664175/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82096

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Crew Girl*](https://film.one/tv/crew-girl.md) (56)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Jessica Paré

> Jessica Paré underplays. Where everyone else leans in, she says the line as if it were speech, and the scene tilts towards her. It is a gift that gets overlooked in ensembles, and it is the reason to stay with *Crew Girl* on dry land.

Watch what Jessica Paré does in *Crew Girl* (2026) when the rowing stops. Vivian Lin's series is a stiff private-school soap whenever it leaves the water, and most of the cast play it as though the lines had been underlined for them. Paré, as Ella Emerson-Tao, does the opposite. She plays the mother as a woman who has made a large decision and is not sure it was the right one, and she takes most of the laughs the series has by saying less than everyone around her. Her scenes with her daughter are the only relationship in the programme that behaves like one. When she leaves a room, the dialogue goes back to sounding like dialogue.

She has been doing this for a quarter of a century, mostly from the side of the frame. Denys Arcand cast her in the lead of *Stardom* (2000) after she auditioned for a smaller part, and a run of Canadian films followed, *Lost and Delirious* (2001) and *Wicker Park* (2004) among them, before a move to Los Angeles around 2004 for *Jack & Bobby*. Then came long gaps between parts that mattered. The one that changed things was Megan Calvet Draper on *Mad Men* (2010–2015), Don Draper's second wife, a recurring role that grew into a series one under Matthew Weiner. "Mad Men really changed my life," she said later. "Before I got this job I was moving back to Canada." Since then there has been a long stint in the main cast of *SEAL Team* (2017–2024), where she also directed episodes, and voice work for *The Simpsons* among others.

What critics noticed on *Mad Men* was a tomboyish energy set against the period glamour, and a willingness to sing, most famously the "Zou Bisou Bisou" number. What we notice is the ease. She is repeatedly cast in supporting parts in period and ensemble pieces, often as a French-Canadian or bilingual character, and she makes those parts look lived-in rather than decorative. The limit is that ease can slide into the wallpaper. In John Crowley's *Brooklyn* (2015), where she plays Miss Fortini, we admired the film a good deal and did not single her out, which is a fair account of what the part asked of her. She is not an actor who makes a scene about herself. In a thin series that is a virtue. In a good film it can mean she is barely there.

We did not expect to look forward to anything in *Crew Girl* that happened on land, and we found ourselves waiting for Paré to come back, because hers were the only scenes in which two people seemed to know each other's tricks and be tired of them. That is a small thing to be good at and a rare one. Nobody has yet built a film around it. Someone should, and it need not involve boats.

## Biography

Jessica Paré is a Canadian actress and singer. She was born on 5 December 1980 in Montreal, Quebec.

Paré appeared in the films *Stardom* (2000), *Lost and Delirious* (2001), *Wicker Park* (2004), *Suck* (2009), *Hot Tub Time Machine* (2010) and *Brooklyn* (2015), in which she played Miss Fortini. She is known for her role as Megan Draper in the television series *Mad Men* (2010–2015) and as Mandy Ellis in *SEAL Team* (2017–2024), on which she has also directed episodes.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Crew Girl* (2026), Fi1m 56, as Ella Emerson-Tao — [page](https://film.one/tv/crew-girl.md)
- *Brooklyn* (2015), Fi1m 83, as Miss Fortini — [page](https://film.one/film/brooklyn.md)
- *Mad Men* (2007), Fi1m 88, as Megan Draper — [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Crew Girl* (2026), series, as Ella Emerson-Tao — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/tv/crew-girl.md)
- *The Bearded Girl* (2025), as Lady Andre
- *Death of a Ladies' Man* (2021), as Charlotte Lafleur
- *Pie* (2018), as Annette
- *Another Kind of Wedding* (2017), as Carrie
- *SEAL Team* (2017), series, as Mandy Ellis · Director
- *Atypical* (2017), series, as Honey
- *Lovesick* (2016), as Lauren
- *Brooklyn* (2015), as Miss Fortini — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/brooklyn.md)
- *Star vs. the Forces of Evil* (2015), series, as Chloe (voice)
- *Standby* (2014), as Alice
- *Sorry, Rabbi* (2012), as Marie-Helene
- *The Mountie* (2011), as Amethyst
- *The Trotsky* (2010), as Laura
- *Peepers* (2010), as Helen
- *Hot Tub Time Machine* (2010), as Tara
- *Suck* (2009), as Jennifer
- *Every Jack Has a Jill* (2009), as Liza
- *Life* (2007), series, as Julia
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, as Megan Draper, Megan Calvet — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Protect and Serve* (2007), as Hope Cook
- *Lives of the Saints* (2004), series, as Rita Amherst
- *Jack & Bobby* (2004), series, as Courtney Benedict
- *Wicker Park* (2004), as Rebecca
- *See This Movie* (2004), as Samantha Brown
- *The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton* (2003), as Nancy Eaton
- *Bollywood/Hollywood* (2002), as Kimberly
- *Napoleon* (2002), series, as Eleanore Denuelle
- *Posers* (2002), as Adria
- *Random Passage* (2002), series, Actor
- *Random Passage* (2002), as Annie Vincent (Age 15)
- *Lost and Delirious* (2001), as Victoria 'Tori' Moller
- *Stardom* (2000), as Tina Menzhal
- *Possible Worlds* (2000), as Party Guest #1
- *Holiday* (2000), as Carole
- *Bonanno: A Godfather's Story* (1999), as Rosalie Profaci
- *Big Wolf on Campus* (1999), series, as Tanya
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Colette (voice), Collette (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *the summer i became coxswain*, as Ella Emerson-Tao

## Gallery

- ![Jessica Paré](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-71c679cb411a.jpg) Jessica Paré — CFC_in_LA_(Jessica_Paré).jpg: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada
derivative work: César, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Jessica_Par%C3%A9_%282012%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![(Left) Producers Michael McNamara and Judy Holm with writer/director Daniel Perlmutter (far right), the team behind FIT TO PRINT, one of the film projects parti (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-0ec3521ae4ed.jpg) (Left) Producers Michael McNamara and Judy Holm with writer/director Daniel Perlmutter (far right), the team behind FIT TO PRINT, one of the film projects parti (2012) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/CFC_In_LA_2012_23_%286816266084%29.jpg/1280px-CFC_In_LA_2012_23_%286816266084%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jessica Paré at a Canadian Film Centre & Variety-hosted reception for the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab. To learn more about the Canadian Film Centre, (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-235d18e75fe3.jpg) Jessica Paré at a Canadian Film Centre & Variety-hosted reception for the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab. To learn more about the Canadian Film Centre, (2012) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/CFC_in_LA_%28Jessica_Par%C3%A9%29.jpg/1280px-CFC_in_LA_%28Jessica_Par%C3%A9%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![NOTE: This image is not a duplicate of a photo in Commons, it is a reworked version of the original image at Flickr with the coloring corrected, lighting bright (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-2aa148bff71e.jpg) NOTE: This image is not a duplicate of a photo in Commons, it is a reworked version of the original image at Flickr with the coloring corrected, lighting bright (2014) — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Jessica_Pare_2014_at_Paleyfest.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jessica Paré](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-e712d5fed56e.jpg) Jessica Paré — Image via TMDB
- ![Jessica Paré](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-09ea39ba687b.jpg) Jessica Paré — Image via TMDB
- ![Actress Jessica Paré at The Paley Center For Media's PaleyFest 2014 Honoring "Mad Men"](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-42af55be8a39.jpg) Actress Jessica Paré at The Paley Center For Media's PaleyFest 2014 Honoring "Mad Men" — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Jessica_Pare_at_PaleyFest_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Canadian actress Jessica Paré (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/122667/gallery-71a1ed52bee4.jpg) Canadian actress Jessica Paré (2009) — Ryan from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Jessica_Pare_at_TIFF_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Lucy Award 2013: Lucy Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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