Jonée is a rare native Angelino who lives within a few miles of her birthplace. Although she spent several years as a full-time teacher, she has been acting off and on since she was a teenager. Last summer she starred in the West Coast Premier of "It Must Be Him" at the Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica and starred as Carmen in "Real Women Have Curves" at Casa0101 in East LA. She received her BA in Theatre from UNLV where she played Rosalia in West Side Story. She has also appeared in the musicals Grease, Annie Get Your Gun, They're Playing Our Song, My Fair Lady, and Showboat. As an actor she has been featured in such TV shows as Medium, Lie to Me, Saving Grace, The Community, Bones, Southland and Luck. She once stood in for Lupe Ontiveros in the film "Days of Wrath" starring Jesse Garcia. Ironically Ms Ontiveros played the role of Carmen in both the film and stage versions of "Real Women Have Curves." Jonée has appeared in more than 30 short films and recently signed with The Stander Group.

In here spare time, Jonee volunteers for NAMI Glendale. Because she has a brother who suffers from Schizophrenia, she teaches family education about Mental Illness and has written several articles for the NAMI Gamigram. Her articles can be found on the NAMI Glendale website in past issues of the Gamigram posted in the archives. She trains volunteers for NAMI California to teach the Family to Family course and as Support group facilitators. In 2005, she was awarded the Family Member of the Year award by the Los Angeles County Mental Health Commission. She continues to teach Family to Family courses in Glendale and advocates for change in the Mental Health system as well as fights to reduce stigma.

Jonee has done several intersting jobs including being a tour guide at Universal Studios, Hollywood, worked as a wardrobe Mistress for Norweigan Cruise Lines, has dealt blackjack in Las Vegas, was an audience page for audiences unlimited. But her longest job has been as a HS ESL teachers where she taught immigrant students from all over the world English as a second language. She continues to work as a teacher but in the capacity of substitute teacher, so that she can devote all her time to building her acting career which has always been her passion.