Jessica Honsinger was born on an Air Force base in Florida to pilot, Michael Honsinger and Valerie Beckel Honsinger. When she was three, her family moved to Texas where she grew up as the youngest of three children. By high school graduation she had performed in countless school productions including the lead role as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In 2006, Jessica began her formal training with the New York Film Academy at Princeton University. At age 20 she graduated from The University of Hawai'i with a degree in Political Science and English after studying abroad for a year in Cork, Ireland and Paris, France. After working on numerous independent film projects in Hawai'i and Texas, Jessica moved to Santa Monica, California where she was cast in the international political thriller, The Algerian (2014). She continued her stage work as the lead in several productions including "Dearly Beloved" and "Inherit the Wind" and returned to her home state in 2014 to film Murder Book (2015).