Jessalyn Gilsig: When I came out to LA I didn’t know that much about film and TV and part of why I really wanted to explore it, other than the obvious reasons, was that there’s a way in film that you learn to be specific and simple. When I went back to do the stage, that was an amazing element to bring back. You really learn in film that less is more. You then learn how to be more economical in what you’re doing on stage, so I find that the two have really communicated for me.
Jessalyn Gilsig: I'd go be a cop in the morning and interrogate and arrest people, and then in the afternoon I'd go to Nip/Tuck and have sex with random partners. It was really the yin and yang of life.
The reason for Jessalyn leaving Boston Public was never officially revealed.
When she was 12 she really wanted to be an actor but her parents kept saying 'Wait till you are 18, then you can do whatever you want.'
At first Jessalyn's character in Nip/Tuck was supposed to be a two-episode arc character, but the creator liked the character so much that he asked Jessalyn to coninue working on the show, which she did.
Jessalyn is also a painter.
Jessalyn is a huge hockey fan.
Jessalyn proveded all the art pieces of Patricia Clarkson's character in 'The Station Agen', written and dyrected by Thomas McCarthy, her Boston Public co-star.
Jessalyn attended McGill University in Montreal Quebec from 1989 to 1993 and graduated with a degree in English.
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