Jessica Cauffiel (born March 30, 1976) is an American film and television actress.

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Musical Theatre at The University of Michigan.

Father is bestselling true-crime author, writer and producer, Lowell Cauffiel. They are also occasional writing partners.

Originally auditioned for the role of Paige Prescott in Valentine (2001), but the role eventually went to Denise Richards. However, director Jamie Blanks still wanted her in the film, and gave her the role of Lily Voight, which was expanded for her.

Plays a redhead for the first time in the movie White Chicks.

Agreed to play the role of Ninotchka, the Russian assassin in the action-comedy D.E.B.S. (2004), as long as they hired her friend Ines Wurth, a Croatian who had also lived in Russia, as the dialect coach - because she didn't want to "fake" a Russian accent.

Is a certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Instructor.

Sings (credited) on World Music Grammy Finalist album, "Shanti," by Snatam Kaur Khalsa.

Real-life best friend and writing partner is Alanna Ubach, who plays best friend "Serena" in Legally Blonde (2001). They met at Alanna's audition. Jessica had already been cast as "Margot," and was asked by Robert Luketic to watch several actresses vying for the part of Serena. When Alanna walked into the audition, she pulled Jessica aside and said, "Kid, help me out here. I've gotta make rent." Jessica was so charmed by her that she got up and read the scene with her for the actual audition...and Margot and Serena were born.

Loves to travel the world and study its many cultures and traditions. She has traveled several times to India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru as well as throughout Europe and the Americas. She has spent much time in the great mountain ranges of the Himalayas and the Andes. She speaks several languages, including Hindi, French, Indonesian and Thai. She is active in several non-profit, NGOs that serve to bring inter-faith harmony amongst the many cultures and spiritual orientations of the world.

She and reknowned Bollywood percussionist and composer Sivamani performed live in Dharamsala, India for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and approximately 20,000 other monks and visitors from around the world, on occasion of the March 10th, 2004 anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. This was the first time in the 45 year history of this event, that any musicians or entertainers had performed.

She is a trained singer, who has studied for over 14 years in Western Classical, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Pop, Blues, and Eastern Devotional vocal mediums.

She wrote an album with world-renowned Indian percussionist and composer, "The Wizard," Sivamani. Sivamani has played with thousands of diverse artists, ranging from Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, rapper Jay-Z and jazz great John McLaughlin - to revered Indian Maestros Zakir Hussein, tabla, mandolin Maestro U. Srinivasan, El Shankar, and Shankar Mahadevan of the famous Shankar/Ehsaan/Loy Bollywood writing team. Sivamani is best known as the right hand man of internationally acclaimed Bollywood virtuoso composer A.R. Rahman, and has composed and played on hundreds of pop and hit film soundtracks, as well as Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway smash, Bombay Dreams.

Audtioned for the role in Stuck on You that ended up going to Wen Yann Shih, but the Farrellys liked her so much they asked her to do a cameo as the girl Damon and Kinnear hit on in a bar.

Her left eye is partly brown, like fellow actress Kate Bosworth.

Her favorite film is "The Goonies," and she has been known to recite the entire movie from memory.

Is a certified practitioner of Shamanic Energy Medicine and the various indigenous healing modalities of the Americas. Has studied intensely for the last four years with the medicine people of Peru, in the Amazon as well as the Andes mountain traditions.

She began her career Off-Broadway starring in the critically acclaimed musical "1001 Nights," written and composed by Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Robert Lopez (IV), best known for his Broadway smash hit "Avenue Q."

In the original pilot episode, auditions and tests for "My Name Is Earl" (2005), the maid character was Russian, named "Tatiana." It was later changed to the Latin-American "Catalina" (played by Nadine Velazquez), but Creator/Producers Greg Garcia and Jason Lee remembered Jessica and loved the Russian character so much that they brought her back as Tatiana - the suspicious, unscrupulous mail-order bride with a giant mole - in a recurring role on the show.