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Jessica Falkholt
(15 May 1988 – 17 January 2018) was an Australian actress. She appeared in 16 episodes of the television series
Home and Away
as
Hope Morrison
in 2016. She was born in
Sydney
.
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Her career began after she graduated from the
University of New South Wales
.
Falkholt had minor television roles in
Tricky Business
and
Underbelly: Badness
. In 2017, she was cast in her first led movie role in the 2018 movie
Harmony
. She was set to join the cast of
Nine Network
's drama
Bite Club
.
On 26 December 2017, Falkholt was involved in a car crash which killed both her parents instantly. As the vehicle burst into flames, both Jessica and her sister Annabelle, aged 21, were pulled out of the vehicle alive, but Annabelle later died in Liverpool Hospital,
Sydney
, a
trauma centre
in the
University of New South Wales
.
[2]
She was hospitalized and placed under critical condition and life-support. She had surgery to remove her
kidney
and part of her skull. On 12 January 2018, a spokesperson for St George Hospital, (
Sydney
) confirmed that her life support had been turned off but that she remained in a critical condition.
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She died five days later on 17 January at the age of 29.
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