Jessica Priest

Jessica Priest
Jessica Priest
Aliases:	Jessie Priest Jessica Anderson-Chin
Notability:	Supporting character
Type:	Assassin
Gender:	Female
Location:	Upstate, Maryland Queens, New York City
Status:	Alive Deceased
Died:	1997
Introduction:	Spawn (1997)
Actor:	Melinda Clarke

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 born nasty. As a child she murdered her parents by setting their Maryland home on fire, then toasted marshmallows on the fire. She was shipped off to a mental health facility, and bounced around from asylum to asylum over the course of years. As an adult, she was released from psychotherapy, and that's when she became truly dangerous. Recruited by U.S. black ops administrator, Jason Wynn, Jessica Priest became a top-notch assassin, while still maintaining an idyllic life as a suburban housewife and mother to two stepchildren.

Trained in the use of high-powered firearms and hand-to-hand combat, She was assigned by Jason Wynn to steal a biogenetic weapon Called Heat-16 from a facility in the jungles of Brazil in South America. During this affair, she was shot and captured by the scientists, Kevin Bergregor, and Liz Arno.

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)

See also

Spawn Spawn images Spawn galleries Spawn characters

Spawn creators Spawn comic titles Spawn appearances Spawn miscellaneous

External Links

Jessica Priest at IMDB Jessica Priest at Wikipedia Jessica Priest at Comic Vine

Jessica Priest at Spawnworld.com Jessica Priest at the Villains Wiki Jessica Priest at the Image Comics Database

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