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2012 Top 10 Hottest Women Who Came in Our Dreams
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 Jessica Paré
: Jessica Paré is at the number ninth spot in Women Fitness list of "
2012 Top 10 hottest women who came in our dreams".
Jessica Paré was born on December 5, 1980.She is a Canadian film and television
actress. She has appeared in the films Stardom , Lost and Delirious , Wicker
Park , Hot Tub Time Machine , and co-starred in the vampire horror-comedy Suck .
She plays Megan on the fourth and fifth seasons of the American TV series Mad
Men.
Paré was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Anthony Paré, the
former chair of the education department at McGill University, and Louise
Mercier, a conference interpreter. She grew up in the Montreal neighborhood of
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and has three brothers. Paré is bilingual, speaking both
English and French.Her family is Catholic.
Paré's parents were both actors; her father was a drama teacher and toured with
a theater company. Her mother acted in amateur productions. Paré would watch her
father at rehearsals as a child, and became interested in acting herself when
helping him learn his lines for The Tempest. She attended Villa Maria, a private
Catholic girl's high school in Montreal. Paré studied drama at TheatreWorks, and
appeared in over half a dozen amateur theater productions as a teenager,
including roles as Maid Marian in Robin Hood and Lucy in The Lion, The Witch,
and the Wardrobe.
Paré landed a small role in Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, a mafia TV movie,
during her final year in high school, which convinced her to pursue acting as a
career. She also found small roles in an episode of the horror/teen TV series
Big Wolf on Campus and in the French film En Vacances in 1999. She dropped out
of the fine-arts program at Montreal's Dawson College and pursued acting for two
years. At one point, she worked as a photographer's assistant on automotive
photo shoots.
After auditioning for a bit part for the independent film Stardom in 2000,
director Denys Arcand chose Paré to star in the film. She played a naive ice
hockey player propelled to international stardom as a supermodel, co-starring
with Dan Aykroyd. The comedic satire closed the 2000 Cannes Film Festival with
mixed reviews from critics. Paré became the Canadian film industry’s "it girl"
following the release of the film. She was voted one of the 25 most beautiful
people in Canada by a Canadian magazine, but she did not take the title very
seriously.
Paré next starred in Lost and Delirious in 2001, opposite Piper Perabo, in a
story of two young lovers set in a girls' boarding school. The film was the
English-language debut of director Léa Pool, and debuted to positive reviews at
the Sundance Film Festival. Paré appeared in the miniseries Random Passage in
2002, based on a series of award-winning novels by Bernice Morgan, and set in
Newfoundland in the 1800s. Also that year, she appeared in the miniseries
Napoléon as the emperor’s mistress. She had a cameo as a pop singer in Deepa
Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood, and starred in the girl gang thriller Posers.Paré
next appeared in the CTV miniseries The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, directed
by Jerry Ciccoritti, in the title role of murdered heiress Nancy Eaton.
Paré made her Hollywood film debut in the 2004 feature Wicker Park, directed by
Paul McGuigan, as Josh Hartnett's fiancee. Paré starred in Lives of the Saints
that year, with Sophia Loren and Kris Kristofferson, a TV miniseries set in the
1960s. She was in the mockumentary See This Movie, with Seth Meyers and John
Cho, and had a role on the teen drama series Jack & Bobby that year. The WB
television series was about two brothers, one who grows up to be President of
the United States; Paré's character, Courtney Benedict, grows up to be First
Lady.
Paré shot the CBS TV pilot Protect and Serve with Dean Cain in 2007.She filmed
the independent French-Canadian romantic comedy Jusqu'à toi that year. Paré
co-starred as Liza, along with Justin Bartha, Mélanie Laurent and Billy Boyd.
She had a small role in The Trotsky, a comedy filmed in Montreal in late-2008,
directed by Jacob Tierney. She also filmed Suck, beginning in November 2008, a
vampire horror-comedy written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk. Paré learned to
play the bass guitar for the role. Suck premiered at the 2009 Toronto
International Film Festival as part of the Contemporary World Cinema programme.
She was nominated for a 2010 Canadian Comedy Award for best female performance
in film for the role.
Paré filmed Red Coat Justice by Wyeth Clarkson in 2009. She played a groupie
opposite Craig Robinson in the 2010 comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. Paré appears in
the Canadian comedy Peepers, written and directed by Seth W. Owen, along with
Joe Cobden, Paul Spence, and Ricky Mabe. The film, about pleasures in voyeurism,
competed in the Just for Laughs film festival in Montreal in July 2010.
In 2010, Paré began a role as Megan Calvet, Don Draper's second wife and
Sterling Cooper Draper Price copywriter, on the television series Mad Men.
Paré's character had a prominent role in the Season 5 opener of Mad Men, in
which she danced and sang a version of the 1960 Gillian Hills hit "Zou Bisou
Bisou". Her recording of the song was subsequently released as a download and on
vinyl.
In 2011, Paré appeared in '"Beholder", alongside Elaine Hendrix, Michael
McMillian, and Rupak Ginn. The short film, directed by Nisha Ganatra, premiered
as part of the ITVS/PBS series, FutureStates. She starred in The Mountie, a
western about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, filmed in a remote location
outside of Whitehorse, Yukon. Paré also starred in the comedic short, "Sorry,
Rabbi", directed by Mark Slutsky.
She married American writer and producer Joe Smith in 2007, but the couple has
divorced. She is now dating Montreal musician John Kastner, lead singer for punk
bands Asexuals and Doughboys.
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Dated 13 December 2012
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