LOS ANGELES, Sept 14, 2006
'Lonelygirl' No More
19-Year-Old Actress Behind Mysterious Video Soap Opera Amazed By Her Sudden Fame
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Play CBS Video Video Lonelygirl15 Revealed Over 2 million people go online each day to watch "Lonely Girl 15." Jessica Rose, the actress who plays the Internet character, speaks with Harry Smith.
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Video LonelyGirl15's Real Identity She was an Internet star who attracted millions of people to her online video diary. It turns out she was an actress - not a lonely teenage girl. Bianca Solorzano explains.
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The online video of self-proclaimed 16-year-old Bree, known as Lonleygirl15, is seen on YouTube. (AP/youtube.com)
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The star of a series of online videos is talking about the craze that helped her find fame — before it turned out she wasn't who she was supposed to be.
Jessica Lee Rose appeared as "Lonelygirl 15" in videos on sites like MySpace and YouTube. She was supposedly a precocious home-schooled 16-year-old. But some fans started getting suspicious — and boy, were they right.
Rose, it turns out, is 19 and a budding actress who found the acting job on Craigslist. She was a little suspicious at first, but says she got comfortable playing a younger teen who muses about life.
One-time fans who feel cheated are leaving angry responses on the Web after the truth came out. Rose says she understands they're disappointed, but hopes they'll keep watching her online series.
She also says she'd love to find an agent and make the kind of movies that don't just appear on the Internet.
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