Jessica Joffe

Jessica Joffe

actress

interview by STEPHANIE MCDERMOTT
portrait by SKYE PARROTT

 

With alabaster skin and a sharp English accent, Jessica Joffe has a regal air. She was raised in Munich in a family of intellectuals, attended boarding school in Britain, and graduated with a degree in comparative literature from Stanford. Already an accomplished writer and reluctant model, only two years after launching her acting career, Jessica has appeared alongside Gerard Butler in Machine Gun Preacher, and Andy Samberg in the romantic comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever.

STEPHANIE MCDERMOTT — What were you like as a child?
JESSICA JOFFE — I really liked learning and still do; it’s probably the most pronounced aspect of me. I started school a year and half early, which led to me being the most immature person in any situation — I never quite caught up to the maturity level of…