Deborah Ann Woll
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Deborah was born in 1985, in Brooklyn, New York, from Irish and German
heritage. She took acting, piano and dance classes. She went to high
school at Packer Collegiate Institute and graduated from the BFA
program at the USC School of Theatre at the University of Southern
California.
Deborah started to work as an actress on television and her breakout
was in the highly-acclaimed HBO vampire drama,
True Blood (2008), as a young and
fierce vampire girl, "Jessica Hamby". From that moment, she gained
roles in such films as
Mother's Day (2010),
Seven Days in Utopia (2011),
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011),
Catch .44 (2011), opposite
Bruce Willis and
Forest Whitaker, and
Ruby Sparks (2012). Woll's boyfriend,
Edward E.J. Scott, is a comedian and his
family are afflicted with choroideremia, which is a condition that
slowly blinds its victim. She uses her celebrity status to help
advocate for them and others with the disease. She has been quoted as
saying that her boyfriend's bravery in fighting his disability has
inspired her own battle with Celiac disease, which makes her body
intolerant to foods containing gluten.
heritage. She took acting, piano and dance classes. She went to high
school at Packer Collegiate Institute and graduated from the BFA
program at the USC School of Theatre at the University of Southern
California.
Deborah started to work as an actress on television and her breakout
was in the highly-acclaimed HBO vampire drama,
True Blood (2008), as a young and
fierce vampire girl, "Jessica Hamby". From that moment, she gained
roles in such films as
Mother's Day (2010),
Seven Days in Utopia (2011),
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011),
Catch .44 (2011), opposite
Bruce Willis and
Forest Whitaker, and
Ruby Sparks (2012). Woll's boyfriend,
Edward E.J. Scott, is a comedian and his
family are afflicted with choroideremia, which is a condition that
slowly blinds its victim. She uses her celebrity status to help
advocate for them and others with the disease. She has been quoted as
saying that her boyfriend's bravery in fighting his disability has
inspired her own battle with Celiac disease, which makes her body
intolerant to foods containing gluten.
