Jessica Parker Kennedy

Her father is black and her mother is white, with Russian Jewish ancestry. Jessica was raised in the Jewish faith.

I used to think being a pirate was a really, cool, sexy thing. It's not. It's terrifying. It's a really horrifying, filthy, scary world where people died from simple things. When a cannon goes off, the splinter from the wood gets in their eyes and they get an infection. Or they don't have enough to eat. Or they get scurvy. It's a terrifying way to survive.