While Dr. Hannah Asher struggles with addiction in “Chicago Med,” actress Jessy Schram has played a number of Hallmark roles that are decidedly different. In fact, she started her screen acting career on the beloved network, in a series of films called “Jane Doe.”
The mystery series stars Lea Thompson of “Back to the Future” fame as a woman trying to balance her two lives, one as soccer mom Cathy Davis, the other as secretive mystery-solving federal agent Jane Doe. In the film series, Schram played Cathy/Jane’s daughter Susan, a wholesome teen dealing with typical issues like trying out for cheerleading and staying out all night, clueless about her mom’s secret identity. Schram appeared in all nine “Jane Doe” movies, from its first one, “Vanishing Act,” in 2005, up until the last, “Eye of the Beholder,” in 2008.
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After such a successful collaboration, it probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the end of the series didn’t mark the end of Schram’s relationship with the Hallmark Channel. Schram also appeared in nine more original Hallmark movies, Christmas-themed and not. She starred opposite John Corbett as a teacher helping special education students get to space camp in 2012’s “A Smile as Big as the Moon,” then focused (intentionally or not) on romance movies with many of Hallmark’s coterie of leading men. These included “Harvest Moon” with Jesse Hutch, “The Birthday Wish” opposite Luke Macfarlane, “Royal New Year’s Eve” costarring Sam Page, “Road to Christmas” with Chad Michael Murray, and “Country at Heart” with Niall Matter.
