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Jessica Boone

American actress

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Jessica Boone is an American actress. Her earlier career while she lived in Houston involved work primarily for Japanese anime series and video games. She has since focused more on theatre work, including both Shakespeare and musical theatre.

01Career

Boone has been a leading player with the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and is co-CEO and an associate artist for Prague Shakespeare Company, the Czech Republic's professional English-language theater, where her roles have included Rosalind, Juliet, Helena, Regan, Ophelia, Innogen, and Lady Macbeth. Boone is also an accomplished voice actress, known throughout the anime world for her work voicing hundreds of characters in Japanese animated series such as Mimmy in Hello Kitty, Misaki Suzuhara in Angelic Layer, Chiyo Mihama in Azumanga Daioh, Fuki in Mushishi from Episode 19, and Sheele in Akame ga Kill. Her film and TV work includes feature films Unlocked directed by Michael Apted, starring Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom, Noomi Rapace, and John Malkovich and Puerto Ricans in Paris starring Rosario Dawson, Rosie Perez, and Luis Guzman.

Boone also appeared on Disney-ABC Television Group as Rabia in Missing starring Ashley Judd, Sean Bean, and Cliff Curtis.

She currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic, and has occasionally returned to the Houston area.

02Filmography

Live action

Anime

Video games

Other media

Theatre

  • Or, Lady Davenant (Main Street Theater - 2011)
  • A Christmas Carol, Martha Cratchit (Alley Theatre)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Juliet (Houston Shakespeare Festival - 2007)
  • Cymbeline, Innogen (Houston Shakespeare Festival - 2008)
  • Pericles, Thaisa (Houston Shakespeare Festival - 2009)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena (Houston Shakespeare Festival - 2010)
  • King Lear, Regan (Prague Shakespeare Festival/Classical Theatre Company in Houston and Prague - 2011)
  • As You Like It, Rosalind (Prague Shakespeare Festival/Krumlov Shakespeare Festival - 2011)
  • As You Like It, Rosalind (Prague Shakespeare Festival/Classical Theatre Company in Houston and Prague - 2011)
  • The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, Natasha (Main Street Theater - 2012)
  • The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck, Natasha (Main Street Theater - 2012)
  • Richard III, Lady Anne (Prague Shakespeare Festival/Main Street Theater - April 2012 in Houston and Prague)
  • Hamlet, Ophelia (Prague Shakespeare Festival - October 2012)
  • Henry V, Katherine/ Boy (Prague Shakespeare Company/ Main Street Theater - 2013)
  • Cymbeline, Innogen (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2013)
  • Macbeth, Lady Macbeth (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2013-2014)
  • Venus in Fur, Vanda (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2014)
  • Into The Woods - Cinderella (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2014)
  • Much Ado About Nothing - Hero (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2015)
  • Twelfth Night - Viola (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2015)
  • The Winter's Tale - Hermione (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2016)
  • Amadeus - Constanza Weber (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2017)
  • The Revolutionists - Charlotte Corday (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2017)
  • An Iliad - Muse (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2018)
  • Troilus and Cressida and Trojan Women - Athena (Prague Shakespeare Company - 2018)
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