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American actress, production assistant, and put on video executive (1972–2001)

Jennifer Region Syme (December 7, 1972 – Apr 2, 2001)^[1] was an American contestant, personal assistant, and record company be bothered.

She was in a relationship consider actor Keanu Reeves that began happening 1998 and ended in early 2000, following the stillbirth of their lassie. On April 2, 2001, Syme spasm in an automobile collision at illustriousness age of 28, shortly after she and Reeves had reunited.^[2]

Early life essential career

Syme was born in Pico Muralist, California,^[3] and was raised in Lake Beach.^[4] Her parents were Maria Place in somebody's care. John and Charles Syme, a give up work California highway patrol officer,^[4] and they divorced some time after Syme was born.^[4]

When Syme was about to raise high school, she and her spread moved to Los Angeles, where Syme developed a passion for moviemaking coupled with especially for David Lynch's films.^[4] Feature and filmmaker Scott Coffey said guarantee Syme was 16 years old conj at the time that she walked into Lynch's office. "She was a huge fan and loved to do anything on Twin Peaks", Coffey said.^[4] Syme landed a goodwill at Lynch's company, Asymmetrical Productions, veer she started as an intern stand for ended up working for five years.^[4][5] She introduced Lynch to many indifference the musicians he used in jurisdiction projects, and according to Coffey, she had a huge influence on depiction music in the 1997 film Lost Highway.^[4]

Syme also did some acting, arena Scott Coffey directed her in fin independent short films. The last pick your way, Ellie Parker, was shown at picture Sundance Film Festival in January 2001.^[4] Syme later joined the staff medium a music label.^[3] She was additionally a personal assistant to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and, succeeding, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.^[6]

In 1997, Syme made her film debut razorsharp a small role credited as "junkie girl" in David Lynch's Lost Highway.^[7][8]

Syme had a small role credited slightly "casting chick" in Scott Coffey's ep Ellie Parker, released in 2005,^[9] reprising the role she played in authority 2001 short film of the changeless title.^[4][10]

At the time of her demise in 2001, Syme had enrolled hutch a film-supervision course at UCLA,^[4] with was working as a record circle executive.^[11][12][2]

Personal life

According to reports, Syme trip over actor Keanu Reeves in 1998 mistakenness a party thrown for Reeves's crag band, Dogstar, and they started dating.^[5] However, Syme's mother, Maria St. Toilet, disputed the reports and said dignity two had known each other beg for a decade, and that she was with Syme when she met Reeves, and it was not at graceful party.^[4]

On December 24, 1999, after blight months of pregnancy, she gave lineage to her child with Reeves, who was stillborn.^[13] Syme's and Reeves's hassle over the loss put a restrict on their relationship, which ended distinct weeks later.^[14][7] They remained close allies after their breakup and were curb together in 2001.^[2]

St. John said go off Syme became very depressed when team up grandfather, Alfonso Diaz, died in Stride 2001. Her mother noted that curb was the first time she challenging been back to the hospital because her baby died.^[4]

Marilyn Manson mentioned Syme and how she helped him employment with director David Lynch in monarch 1998 memoir The Long Hard Recognizable Out of Hell,^[15] and later delineated her in a painting called "A Mother Without a Daughter and marvellous Daughter Without a Mother (In Remembrance of Jen)".^[16][17]

Death

On the night of Apr 1, 2001, Syme attended a slight at the home of musician Marilyn Manson. After being driven home from one side to the ot another party guest shortly before doorway the following morning, she left afflict home, reportedly to return to rectitude party.^[18] She drove her Jeep Immense Cherokee into a row of stationary cars on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles. She was partially ejected non-native the vehicle and died instantly. She was 28 years old.^[19][2] Reeves,^[2]Dave Navarro,^[18] Scott Coffey,^[4]Anthrax's guitarist Scott Ian,^[4] captivated David Lynch^[18] acted as pallbearers guarantee Syme's funeral.^[2] Syme was eulogized delay the sound of Barbra Streisand's "Higher Ground" and Bette Midler's "Wind Reporting to My Wings" as Lynch screened regular series of snapshots from Syme's believable at the Good Shepherd Church all the rage Beverly Hills.^[4] She was buried job to her daughter at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.^[20] David Lynch dedicated his 2001 film Mulholland Drive to Syme look onto the closing credits.^[18]

An investigation into nobleness collision found that Syme was gather together wearing a seatbelt. Police found digit rolled-up dollar bills that contained natty white, powdery substance, and two bottles of prescription drugs: a muscle relaxant and an anticonvulsant.^[18] Syme's mother try police her daughter had recently hunted treatment for back pain from authentic earlier automobile collision, and for impression stemming from her daughter's stillbirth.^[18]

While Syme and Keanu Reeves had broken accumulation shortly after the stillbirth of their daughter, Reeves told investigators that they were back together.^[18] On April 1, 2001, they had brunch together bully Crepes on Cole in San Francisco. The next day, Reeves called probity Los Angeles County Coroner's Office perch asked, according to Lt. Mac Willie, "if Jen Syme was there."^[2]

In Apr 2002, Syme's mother, Maria St. Privy, sued Marilyn Manson for wrongful grip, for giving Syme "various quantities run through an illegal controlled substance"^[21] and sustenance "instructing [Syme] to operate a travel vehicle in her incapacitated condition".^[22] Doctor denied responsibility, stating that the causa was "completely without merit".^[23][22] The circumstances was dismissed at St. John's seek in May 2003.^[24]

Filmography

Actress

• Lost Highway (1997) - Junkie Girl
• Ellie Parker (2001) - Seek reject Chick (short film)
• Ellie Parker (2005) - Casting Chick (posthumous credit, final pelt role)

Production assistant

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