Jeffrey Scott Jensen(1964-2023)
- Actor
- Stunts
Jeffrey Scott Jensen is a California born actor that spent a few years in a small Arizona town called Heber in the 70's before coming back to California for High School in Claremont. While in Arizona at the age of eight his parents drove thirty miles to the closest theater one night where they saw "The Cowboys" with John Wayne and Bruce Dern who scared the Bejezus out of him. It was this film that convinced him of his desire to be an actor so he began to get himself into every elementary and high school play He could.
Jeff dropped out of high school at seventeen when his mother died of cancer, His father, suffering from Alzheimer's, Died a few years later.
Losing his parents young was a blessing and a curse, The blessing was the freedom to leave for Hollywood without the feeling of abandoning them. The curse is obvious.
Jeff's first film role was as a Mafia tough in "Genuine Risk" with Peter Berg whom he calls the first of the great, talented and friendly artists he's had the good luck of working with over the years.
In '08 Jeff was nominated best supporting actor at Methodfest for his role as "Faraday" in "Chronic Town", Among others nominated was Bruce Dern.