Jessica Priest

Jessica Priest is a fictional assassin featured in the Spawn multimedia franchise. She first appeared in the 1997 Spawn feature film where she was played by actress Melinda Clarke. Since then, she has been included in the Spawn comic book series by Image Comics, beginning with issue #61.

Biography
Jessica Priest was a highly trained assassin with dark hair, and skilled in the use of high-powered firearms and hand-to-hand combat. She was hired by U.S. government agent Jason Wynn to steal a biogenetic weapon Called Heat-13 in South America.

Jason Wynn later had Priest kill one of his own mercenaries, a man named Al Simmons. As he died, Simmons made a pact with a demon called the Malebolgia, and returned to life as a Hellspawn. He has fought against Priest on numerous occasions.

Notes & Trivia
The character of Jessica Priest was created by writer and artist Todd McFarlane. Originally, the individual who first murdered Al Simmons was a character named Chapel. At the time of publication however, Chapel was the property of artist Rob Liefeld, and was associated with a different graphic arts studios. As such, McFarlane could not use Chapel in the film and replaced him with the similarly-named Priest. As Rob Liefeld's studio departed from Image Comics, the character of Jessica Priest was retroactively inserted into Spawn continuity as the original killer of Al Simmons.

In the Spawn film, Al Simmons kills Jessica Priest at the end of the movie. In the comics however, she lived on, and partially reformed. She assumed a new identity, moved to the suburbs and married a Columbia University Professor named Daniel Chin. They raised two children together.

Appearances

 * 1) Curse of the Spawn 12
 * 2) Curse of the Spawn 13
 * 3) Curse of the Spawn 14
 * 4) Spawn 61
 * 5) Spawn 65
 * 6) Spawn 75
 * 7) Spawn (1997)