Jess Callihan

Jessica Deidre "Jess" Callihan Dzana is a main character on Amateurs. She is one of the female leads on the series. She is an alumna of Robert E. Lee High School and a founding member of the duo Amateurs with best friend/partner Zoe Calligaris. Jess is the first female panseuxal character on the series.

Jess dated her best friends Amadeus and Harris. She was in lesbian relationships with DJ/waitress Amani, Jamaican artist Jaylene Lavigne, childhood friend Bree Summers and had a short-lived marriage to cop Emmanuelle Zellers. She also dated transgender woman Charlie Stanley. In the final season, she met and begun a relationship with T'Challa's nephew, her opposite sex version of her, Kwezi Dzana. The couple got married in the series finale.

She is portrayed by actress and model Alexandra Shipp.

Early Life
Jessica Callihan was born in the mid 1990s to Deidre (nee` Eliade) Callihan and Daniel Callihan and is the seventh and last child. She lost her mother when she was six months old and never had any real memories. She also lost her uncle, Harper a month after her mother. She was therefore raised by her father, aunt-in-law, sisters and grew up alongside her cousin, Alyson. During her early years, she befriended Harris James, Amadeus McCaffrey and Ling Wong after the quad got into a dispute over the last cookie in kindergarten. At some point, her aunt Bex married the father of her childhood later high school nemesis, Kara Maxwell making the two step-cousins. At some point, she began dating Sherman Yang.

Trivia

 * Jess is the second character introduced as a LGBTQIPA.
 * The first character was Michael Kahale.
 * The second major character introduced as LGBTQIPA.
 * She is the first female panseuxal character on the series. The second one was Savita Bhandari. The only male pansexual is Deputy Sean Dulany.
 * She is of Irish-Jamaican and African ancestry.
 * Youngest of eight children with an older half-brother and six older sisters.
 * She has been best friends with Harris, Amadeus and Ling since kindergarten. They met over a dispute over the last chocolate chip cookie.
 * Lost virginity to Harris, her best friend!
 * She loves Star Wars and hates Twilight.
 * She's a big fan of Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry and mainly Gwen Stefani.
 * Pretended to be a couple with Jenny who was a mentally unstable lesbian.
 * It is revealed that during elementary she was the girlfriend of Michael Kahale until the latter realized he was gay and broke up with her on the last day of fourth grade when he came out.
 * In the second season, when she fell in love with transgender STEM student Jack Jones, it revealed she is pansexual.