Kym Jackson is an Australian actress and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. She is known for her lead roles in the feature films Knifepoint and Mindfire, and TV Appearances in CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 Hit TV show Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...

, and Lifetime TV Movie Pregnancy Pact.

Biography

Born in Bath, England, Jackson's family relocated to Australia just after her third birthday. She began acting in stage productions with her community and school theatre groups at the age of five and performed in around twenty plays over the following ten years.

At age seventeen, Jackson moved from Logan City, Queensland

Logan City, Queensland

Logan City is a Local Government Area in South East Queensland, Australia. The city is situated between the City of Brisbane to the north and Gold Coast to the south. The city also borders the Scenic Rim, the City of Ipswich and Redland City....

 to Surfers Paradise

Surfers Paradise, Queensland

Surfers Paradise is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 Census, Surfers Paradise had a population of 18,501....

, to pursue a film career, working as a tour guide at Warner Brothers Studios while training for film and TV, and auditioning for roles.

Her first role came in the year 2000 – one line in the feature film Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo (film)

Scooby-Doo is a 2002 American comedy film based on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon series Scooby-Doo about a group of young detectives and their talking dog. It is the first installment in the Scooby-Doo live action film series...

, followed closely by a small part in the US telemovie Border Patrol.

In 2002, she relocated to Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, and she moved to Hollywood in June 2004.

Since receiving her USA Greencard in February 2006, Jackson has performed supporting and leading roles in over fifteen feature length films. Her US television debut occurred in April 2008 in an episode of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, and she has since appeared in such projects as Lifetime's Pregnancy Pact and ABC's The Gates.