~ You all rock! The biggest thank you to all of you for allowing me to bring your vision to life by casting me. Overjoyed and deeply appreciative to all of you. Thank you! ~

 

JENN GOTZON's BIOGRAPHY by Dugan and Story - Scotty Dugan

 

In the space of a few months while working on two unrelated film projects, award-winning actress JENN GOTZON helped retell American political history as well as make worldwide cinematic history.

 

First, with Oscar-winning director Ron Howard at the helm, the blonde ingénue wrapped principal photography in the fall of 2007 on Universal Pictures’ 35mm big-budgeter “Frost/Nixon,” appearing as first daughter Tricia Nixon opposite three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella. With Langella undergirding the likely Academy Award-contending biopic set for release in December 2008, GOTZON captured the presidential offspring’s weathering of her father’s ignominious resignation speech and subsequent hospitalization with a nuanced display of emotions that had Howard even expanding her role at one point.

 

Then, in the spring of 2008 the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts-trained player turned in what executive producer Mark Clayman (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) called “an intense yet vulnerable” lead performance as an unjustly incarcerated inmate in writer-director Joshua Weigel’s speed filmmaking contest entry “Stained” that won her a career-third Best Actress award at the 168 Film Festival. Most notably, the 11-min. short about a futuristic merciless society that segregates its undesirables won the fest’s Best Film and Audience Choice awards, which distinguished the picture as the first film shot on the revolutionary 4K-capture RED Camera ever to win a film festival. (News of the accomplishment went viral, prompting a commendation from RED leader Ted Schilowitz.)

 

The “168” acting accolade followed GOTZON’s Best Actress nod at the 2003 Global Art Film Festival Tour in Sacramento, where she was won an award as Best Actress for her portrayal of an all-American sweetheart in director James Nguyen’s romantic comedy feature “Julie and Jack.” Having already proven her mettle alongsidc Oscar-winning Best Actress Jennifer Connolly in Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s “The Hulk,” GOTZON teamed on “Julie and Jack” with the legendary Tippi Hedren in a turn that had Nguyen declaring the young talent from Pennsylvania “an up-and-coming shining star.”

 

It was the Global Arts Film Festival Emmy-nominated founder Loren Reed, in fact, who gave GOTZON her first “big break” in 2001], casting her in his teen’s prison-set directorial feature debut “All Heart and Soul.” In the socially conscious film targeting at-risk youths which is still touring the country via producer Reed’s Global Art Film Festival Tour, she plays an ensemble lead as an edgy, physically abusive gang member who undergoes a change of heart in prison and now wants to help other youth her age. So convincing was she in the part, the indie film’s production company C.R.E.O. 7. bestowed their own Outstanding Actress award on her.

 

GOTZON’s path to such growing motion picture industry acclaim may have been paved, oddly enough, by her 2000 Best Actor nomination at Talent in Motion magazine’s TIMMY Awards for headlining decorated New York lenser Laura Kievning’s still photography series “Avvicinatevi: Come Near.” Based on a true story and Bible verse James 4:8 “Come near to God and He will come near to you”, Jenn Gotzon depicts a range of emotion transitioning from intense rage to joy in these inspired photographs. Jenn incorporated the use of these images as her talent when she competed in the Miss America Pageant System. Laura won several independent awards and recognition from her photography.

 

GOTZON’s lead roles know little bias for subject matter, character function or story length. In writer-director (and husband) Chris Armstrong’s [2003] short “Scenario for Delirium” she enlivens the deadly femme fatale central figure in a tale of a modern day film noir following the lives of two troubled lovers trying to escape their past and present day problems. Chris’s intent was to cast the best actress for this edgy role, though didn’t want to necessarily work with someone who really was that character. He ended up falling in love with Jenn effervescent heart and saw her capture the true essence of his leading lady. After they wrapped production, five months later Chris asked Jenn on a date that ended with him giving her a precious gift from Gotzon's Disney roots...a glass slipper enscribed with May God provide your every dream and desire.” April 30, 2006 they were married. They joke often how he never intended to cast his bride. Chris, an emerging writer/director owns Elysian Pictures, RED Camera Rentals and is in development on various independent films.

 

In fact, her range may be nucleic to how prolific she is becoming, against-type casting as the spunky comedic ditz lead in director George L. Heredia’s [2008] clever comedic short about speed-dating. Jenn plays an upbeat, playful gal with a vixen edge and a twist of the south. This romantic comedy short “Chemistry” attests to her broad faculties "Jenn is a wonderful actor with a diverse range seldom found these days. She completes the film." s ays George Heredia.

 

If her filmography hints at a one-way ticket to an enduring career in the arts and entertainment world, this bonafide feature film entitled… “One Way Ticket.” Premiered Feb 2008 in the Silicon Valley, CA and is being released internationally. Directed by Cheenu Krishnan and produced/acted/music by Jay Shanker, follows the randomly intertwined lives of three East-Indian immigrants in hopes to find the gold in the CA’s Sililcon Valley Dot com boom. GOTZON’s plays the All American dream girl with a genuine heart of gold who helps the lead discover true happiness does not come in material values.

 

Born in Northampton, Pennsylvania, JENN GOTZON has rapidly gained valuable experience bi-coastal from her kicks in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom as a dancer/entertainer to train in the big apple of NYC to act in the independent film market and scenic coastlines of San Francisco to the heart of cinema where it all happens in Los Angeles. GOTZON seeks protagonist characters with challenging substance and complex layers that are morally sound and go through a self-revelation in the climax of the storyline. Her ideal roles range from your all American sweetheart romantic comedies to your intense dramatic roles of character reenactments and transformations to the sassy edgy vixen, femme fatale characters in action flicks. She loves to laugh as the charismatic high energy, quirky and ditsy blonde. Ultimately, GOTZON loves working with everyone to bring the writer/director's vision to life and impact and inspire audiences through the art of storytelling on screen.

 

 

 

~ A huge warm hug of appreciation to my:loving, encouraging and talented husband and best friend (Chris Armstrong - thank you love for pursuing me - I love you), my encouraging and supporting parents (Ronnie and Jo-Ann Gotzon - your my #1 customer), my best friend and sister (Shelly Gotzon - I'm so proud of you), my brother and his wonderful family (Marcus, Mere, Evan, Ryan and Riley - Chess rematches next time I'm home), my loving in-laws (Leslie, Hank, Mike, Wendy and Melinda - thanks for the prayers) and to ALLLLLLLLLLL of my dearest friends,, parent's ecoquest team, mentors, and pastors who have prayed for me along my adventures!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT!!!! ~