Jessica Bendinger is an American screenwriter and novelist.

She has written several films, including 2000's Bring It On

Bring It On (film)

Bring It On is a 2000 teen comedy film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union...

, 2004's First Daughter

First Daughter (2004 film)

First Daughter is a 2004 American romantic comedy released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Katie Holmes as Samantha MacKenzie, daughter of the President of the United States, who enrolls at a college and develops a relationship with another student at the college played by Marc Blucas...

and 2006's Aquamarine

Aquamarine (film)

Aquamarine is a 2006 Australian-American teen fantasy comedy film starring Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts, and Joanna "JoJo" Levesque . The film, which was made in both the United States and Australia, was released in North America on March 3, 2006...

. She was also a writer and creative consultant for Sex and the City

Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...

as well as a producer of the 2005 film The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date is a 2005 romantic comedy directed by Clare Kilner, who also directed How to Deal . The release was successful achieving $47 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $15 million...

starring Debra Messing

Debra Messing

Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress, voice artist, and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her role as Grace Adler in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace and as Molly Kagan in the mini-series The Starter Wife....

. She also wrote and directed Stick It

Stick It

Stick It is an American teen comedy-drama film starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, and Vanessa Lengies. It was written and directed by Jessica Bendinger, writer of Bring It On; the film marks her directorial debut...

, released in April 2006 as her directorial debut. Bendinger is a former model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 who worked for designer Stephen Sprouse

Stephen Sprouse

Stephen Sprouse was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of "uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility" .-Career:...

 and appeared on the runway in the film Slaves of New York. She was named by Glamour Magazine

Glamour magazine

Glamour magazine means:* Glamour magazine, a U.S. publication aimed at a predominantly female readership* a girlie magazine aimed at a male readership featuring photographs of women...

 as one of Hollywood’s “Most Powerful Women Under 40” in 2005.

Bendinger's first novel, The Seven Rays was published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

. The story follows 17 year-old, Beth Michaels, who uncovers elements of the supernatural on her journey of self discovery.

External links

• Jessica Bendinger's blog
• The Seven Rays Promotional website