LonelyGirl15: Jessica Lee Rose
Jessica Lee Rose, also known online as lonelygirl15 (her screenname in YouTube), is an American-born actress who grew up in New Zealand. She rose to popularity after playing the role of lonelygirl15, a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in YouTube with a series of episodes.
To millions of online fans, she was first known as Bree, a 16-year-old, home-schooled American teenager. Unusually self-possessed and literate, Bree recorded her private thoughts into a digital video camera and posted them on YouTube under the name Lonelygirl15, where she attracted millions of fans. In August 2006, the videos were exposed as scripted fakes, and Bree was outed as 19-year old New Zealand-born actress Jessica Rose. But the news only served to increase her fame, and in the media, Rose became the poster child for the phenomenal success of YouTube and user-driven Web content. Rose’s star continues to climb: she’s landing movie deals and recorded a commercial for a United Nations anti-poverty campaign. (Source…)
Here is an interesting episode: