Jocelyn Seagrave (born September 9, 1968) is an American film and television actress, best known for playing Jessica Mitchell on Fox's Pacific Palisades.
Seagrave was born in Bangkok, Thailand; the daughter of Wendy (née Law-Yone), a award-winning novelist, and Sterling Seagrave, the bestselling author. Her mother is Burmese-born and her father is of distant Scottish descent and also the fifth—generation of an American family of medical missionaries and teachers working in Burma since 1832. Her paternal grandfather, Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, was the author of Burma Surgeon. Seagrave's mother was born in 1947 in Mandalay, Burma; she was raised in Yangon, Burma and is now living in the United States. Jocelyn grew up in Southeast Asia (Thailand) and later in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., with her twin brother, studying martial arts and earning her black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She studied English literature at the University of Virginia. She attended Robert Frost Junior High School in Fairfax, Virginia, moved away, and upon returning to the area, attended Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia, the next town over.
Her unique background has been the interest of many TV viewers since her acting debut in the New York soap opera The Guiding Light. Jocelyn has been a series regular on Fox's Pacific Palisades, produced by Aaron Spelling, and has also appeared in Savannah, Charmed, Wings, numerous other television shows and in several independent movies. She is a writer as well, with screenplays, stage plays, published short stories and poems to her credit.
Jocelyn married Greek-American, Ted Fundoukas, in 1993. They have two children and now live in Los Angeles, California. She is related to actress and former Guiding Light co-star Melina Kanakaredes by marriage, who is also best known for playing Det. Stella Bonasera on CSI: NY. Jocelyn appeared on Femme Fatales in June 1997.
