Meet The Actors of PRINCESS CYD

PRINCESS CYD

A Film by Stephen Cone

Sixteen-year-old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) decides to take a break from her depressive single father and spend a summer in Chicago with her aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence), a well-known novelist.

Soon after her arrival, Cyd encounters Katie (Malic White), a young barista behind the counter. 

The two make plans to meet up after Katie’s shift and a new, charged relationship begins. 

The Chicago landscape expands, and we navigate intimate and fragile moments between Cyd and Katie as they explore their new attraction. 

Miranda functions as a counterpart to young Cyd’s new explorations of sexuality and love, and as the summer continues they develop a strong relationship founded on a shared openness and healthy criticism of particular personal moments.

Sensitive to the contradictions and confusion of the ever-changing self, Stephen Cone has created a film that reimagines that distinct summer feeling when adolescence creeps in, skin is bared, emotions emerge, and everything begins to feel more complicated.

Meet The Actors

Jessie Pinnick (Cyd) is a recent graduate of Northwestern University and is currently living in Chicago. PRINCESS CYD is her first feature film. TV credits include “Shameless” and “Chicago Fire”. Outside of acting, Jessie can be seen singing backup for the band Celine Neon. She is currently represented by Gray Talent Group.

Rebecca Spence (Miranda) is a Chicago-based actor whose film work includes Austin Vesely and Chance the Rapper’s forthcoming Slice (A24), BLOOMIN’ MUD SHUFFLE, MAN OF STEEL, FOOLS, TIGER TAIL IN BLUE, ONE SMALL HITCH, CONTAGION, THE DILEMMA, AUDREY THE TRAINWRECK, EARTHLING, PUBLIC ENEMIES, GRACE IS GONE and THE BREAK-UP. She can be seen on the Netflix series “Easy” and has had recurring roles on “Boss” (STARZ) and “Crisis” (NBC), as well as roles on “Chicago Fire” (NBC), “Betrayal” (ABC), “The Mob Doctor” (FOX), “Detroit 1-8-7” (ABC), “The Chicago Code” (FOX), “The Beast” (A&E) and “Prison Break” (FOX).

PRINCESS CYD

Now playing in New York (at the Museum of the Moving Image as a part of "Talk About the Passion: Stephen Cone's First Act ," an early career retrospective of Stephen Cone's work) and Chicago (at the Gene Siskel Film Center), and opens in Los Angeles on Dec. 1