Actress Jayme Lynn Evans, whose hometown is Hillsborough, will guest star in the “Body of Proof” episode Tuesday, March 5, at 10 p.m. on ABC-TV.
She plays the sister of a girl whose death, on the surface, appears to be a case of severe child abuse, but the show’s forensic investigators suspect murder. The parents claim their daughter was killed by the devil after being possessed. The victim’s mother begs one investigator, played by Dana Delany, to help her stop the same thing from happening to the surviving daughter.
That would be Jayme Lynn.
According to some graphic photos on the web, the show could get a bit gruesome. Jayme’s mother, Vicki Evans, of Hillsborough, has to remind herself it’s all just a film.
”I’ll be glad knowing my daughter is OK as I watch,” she said, adding it was a bit surreal to watch another scene in which her daughter is crying over her dead mother.
Jayme Lynn was featured in a January 2011 Beacon article when she landed a role in a two-hour made-for-television movie, “Change of Plans.”
Since then, the Hillsborough High School graduate has appeared on “Big Time Rush,” “The Young and the Restless” and “90210” and recently has appeared as a co-star on “Perception” and a guest star on “Rizzoli & Isles,” according to her mother.
Those are all examples Jayme Lynn is starting to break through into the film world. She stars in a Pepsi Next commercial in which she and a guy are beamed up a wind-blown, dusty gas station and onto an alien spaceship.
She’s been screened for pilots for 10 shows and brought back for producer sessions for four, Mrs. Evans said.
”We keep crossing our fingers,” she said.
In January 2011, reporter Andrew Corselli wrote that getting a role on “Change of Plans” couldn’t have come at a better time for the actress. Right when Ms. Evans was about to lose faith, and possibly her home, she got a break.
”Right before I booked ‘Change of Plans,’ I looked at my bank account and said ‘either I’m going to book this show, and everything’s going to be fabulous, or I’m not going to be able to pay rent this month,’” she said. “I got really lucky. I couldn’t believe it. You just have to put your faith into the universe and trust that everything that’s supposed to happen is going to happen.”
As a kid, she fell in love with the idea of being an actor after watching Jessica Rabbit sing in the film, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” To this day she still has no idea how a red-headed cartoon convinced her to set out on her life’s journey, she said.
According to her website, although most of Jayme Lynn’s life is spent acting, when she isn’t filming, she enjoys playing Scrabble with friends, hiking and dancing around her apartment to 1980s music. She is obsessed with the New York Giants and has a great love for everything Disney with a secret dream of being the voice of a Disney princess some day.

