Born and raised in Los Angeles, Janessa is a New York City based actor and graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, she trained at The Meisner Studio and Stonestreet Studios of Film and TV. She also studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts (RADA), Brecht in Berlin with professors from the prestigious Ernst Busch Academy, and Chekhov with Slava Dolgachev, the artistic director of The Moscow New Drama Theater.
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