Jenny Spain

BIOGRAPHY OF JENNY
Born July 2, 1980, Jenny Spain(O'Grady) grew up in the greater San Diego area of Southern California.She has always valued the support of her family as life's most important asset, a family that includes former members of the U.S. Secret Service who had served for 4 different Presidents of the United States,Private Detective who has also worked on Celebrity cases such as the Michael Jackson Trial. Jenny's mother was a singer in her church choir, Father is a Mechanical Engineer, Her younger brother serves for the U.S Army as well as her grandma who was a Former Model and Beauty Queen.
Jenny attended Clairemont Senior High School aka(Fast times at Ridgemont High) in San Diego, California. After graduating high school she immediately began pursuing her interests in higher education, studying such varied subjects as Business,Graphic Design, Psychology and Theatre at San Diego Mesa College and nursing at Stratford Career Institute. Jenny then set her sights on following her family's civil service tradition, passing tests in preparation for the police academy. She soon realized, however, that her passion for the performing arts would lead the way in her future pursuits and entered the world of modeling and acting. Early successes came quickly for Jenny and her future career looked bright.
In 2003 Jenny joined her extended family in a move to small-town Michigan. Many people wondered how a move east would affect her burgeoning entertainment career, but Jenny longed for the relaxed pace and beautiful scenery outside the hurried lifestyle of Southern California. She soon proved that she can make it anywhere, landing numerous modeling and acting jobs both locally and back in the Los Angeles area.
Jenny is a former Featured Model in a few of America's Top Men's Magazines! She has proved she can do it all balancing work, career, travel, filming and family. In 2007 Jenny starred in her first short film "All The Fake Girls" that had won the Lansing Film Festival. Her big screen debut came with a starring role in 2009's "Dead Girl" - from the producers of "Heathers" and "Hellraiser". Deadgirl will be making its WORLD PREMIERE SEPT 6th,2008 at THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. This will be Jenny's 2nd Film Festival within 2 years.
The TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is among the top film festivals in the world. It is the 2nd Largest to CANNES. Toronto is the premiere film festival in North America, from which the Oscars race begins, and the world's largest festival open to the general public. Jenny made her Big screen Debut The same year she secured other leading roles Such as the tv series "Duchess Of Detroit".
Jenny Spain's a cult starlet in the making." - VARIETY
Deadgirl gives a push to the terror hottie status of Jenny Spain, playing a girl changed to a table in an abandoned hospital's basement. She's found by buddies Ricky and JT, who decide that they'd really like to have a girl around the house to take care of their…needs. Especially since she seems to have a surprising resistance to things like bullets—it's always handy to have someone around the house who can handle getting shot repeatedly - Terror Tube Network
Of course big props gotta go out to Jenny Spain who played the titular dead girl. Considering she endured no end of torment and spent the entire film in the nude, she managed to play the role with intense dignity. She is both beautiful and terrifying and will no doubt become some kind of weirdo icon in the years to come. -QUIET EARTH
AFI FILM FEST 2008
DEADGIRL
Premiering Halloween night, October 31st at 7:15pm and November 3rd at 12:15pm
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Website: http://www.deadgirlmovie.com/
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"...skirts the edge without going over, and judging from the raucous reception during its Midnight Madness preem at Toronto, twisted auds clearly do exist for such blatantly ‘wrong’ material" -Variety
"Not since "Session 9" has an abandoned asylum been used to such unsettling effect...The two leads show promise, with Fernandez sporting the pinch-faced sneer of a young Joaquin Phoenix. Jenny Spain's a good sport as the deadgirl (a cult starlet in the making)..." - Variety
"A twisted turn of events make DEADGIRL an immediate indie classic and one of the best teen horror thrillers in years." - Bloodydisgusting
"Two new faces at Toronto who show more artistic verve and bravery than many of the festival's masters are co-directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, the filmmakers behind the clever, scary, unsettlingly sexual teenage bondage thriller "Deadgirl." -indiewire
"I don't want to give too much away, but there's a healthy mix of absurdity, slacker humour, nudity and some good scares (all very good things right?) It reminded me a fair bit of Teeth in how it took a pretty taboo & extreme subject matter but presenting it in a pretty light way. It's fun, it's fresh and it's well worth checking out." -aintitcoolnews
"one the smartest teen horrors I've watched in some time, a nervy twist on "Saw"-inspired victim movies. Companies that do not shy away from controversy and are willing to take risks in order to grasp a youthful audience would be wise to get in business with Sarmiento and Harel." -indiewire
"As shocking as this is, as far fetched as the premise, on an emotional level it is entirely plausible… Deadgirl has a number of images and sequences guaranteed to sear themselves into your brain, moments of moral degradation you won't quickly shake off. And, in this context, that is a very good thing." - twitch
"it's one of the year's strongest horror films, ambitious and scary" -filmblather
“For newcomers Sarmiento and Harel, that's the type of festival debut even veterans dream about having." –indiewire
"A teen-angst-and-terror opus" - Fangoria
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Screening Dates / Times / Locations:
2008 AFI Film Festival:
Friday, October 31st, 7:15PM – (Arclight 9)
Monday, November 3rd, 12:15PM (Arclight 10)
6360 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028