Jessica Kate Meyer

Jessica Kate Meyer is an American retired actress, who has appeared in The Pianist, and was later ordained as a rabbi.

Early years Meyer and her family moved from Waban, Massachusetts to Connecticut when she was 4 or 5 years old. She commuted to take violin lessons at the New England Conservatory of Music and played with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, The cantor's wife tutored her in Hebrew, a language that she studied further when she attended Wellesley College in the 1990s. Her degree in Middle Eastern studies included spending her junior year in Israel.

Films The Pianist as Halina Szpilman (2002) Al sur de Granada as Dora Carrington (2003) Rise of the Damned as Kellie (2011)

Television Scrubs (2004) Mrs. Harris (2005)