Jessica Falkholt

Jessica Falkholt (15 May 1988 – 17 January 2018) was an Australian actress. She appeared in 16 episodes of the television series Home and Away as Hope Morrison in 2016. She was born in Sydney.  Her career began after she graduated from the University of New South Wales. 

Falkholt had minor television roles in Tricky Business and Underbelly: Badness. In 2017, she was cast in her first led movie role in the 2018 movie Harmony. She was set to join the cast of Nine Network's drama Bite Club.

On 26 December 2017, Falkholt was involved in a car crash which killed both her parents instantly. As the vehicle burst into flames, both Jessica and her sister Annabelle, aged 21, were pulled out of the vehicle alive, but Annabelle later died in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, a trauma centre in the University of New South Wales. She was hospitalized and placed under critical condition and life-support. She had surgery to remove her kidney and part of her skull. On 12 January 2018, a spokesperson for St George Hospital, (Sydney) confirmed that her life support had been turned off but that she remained in a critical condition. She died five days later on 17 January at the age of 29.Jessica Falkholt dies days after life support turned off

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