Jessika Van

Jessika Van is an American actress, singer-songwriter, pianist and dancer. Van is most known for playing "Becca," the ringleader of the Asians or the Asian mafia in Season 2 and Season 3 of MTV's Awkward. She also played Kim, a Hong Kong Police Officer and sister of Detective Lee in the Rush Hour television series. Van's voice, digital likeness, and motion capture performance was used for the character "Hannah" in the video game Battlefield 4. She has also starred as the antagonist "Li Xue" in the 2019 12-episode Chinese series,Yolk Man (蛋黄人).

In 2015, she made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the coming of age film Seoul Searching (2015), where she sings and dances an a cappella rendition of Madonna's, "Like A Virgin".

She then played the lead action heroine Hannah in Electronic Art's first-person shooter, Battlefield 4 (2013). For her role as a secret service agent, she trained in weapons and martial arts, and has continued to lead in many action roles since.

Jessika was awarded Best Actress for her work in the short film, Paper Lotus (2013), at the 2013 Los Angeles Movie Awards.

Jessika Van started in music as a classically-trained pianist and singer. As a child, she won dance competition titles and music awards that led to her performing for local Philharmonic Society events and the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. As an actress, Jessika broke onto the Hollywood scene in MTV's critically-acclaimed comedy, Awkward. (2011), as Becca, Queen of the Asian Mafia.

Van played the reoccurring character "Koa Lin" on CW's The Messengers. Van also played the reoccurring character "Becca", the ringleader of the Asians, and the primary antagonist to Ming Huang (Jessica Lu) on MTV's Awkward. Van has also appeared on other TV shows such as playing a Goth character named "Sunshine" on Disney's A.N.T. Farm, playing "Stacey Tan" in the 2009 Without A Trace episode "Devotion," opposite David Huynh, and playing the kidnapped Nikki Sun (Nikki Sun '89) on an episode of Cold Case, "Triple Threat" (2008).