General

‣Tessa's first commercial (Maytag) was filmed when she was four months old. She was the first of her sisters to book a job.

‣She has three older sisters, Madison, Jeanne & Adeline who have all acted.

‣Her older sisters, taught her how to cry on cue.

‣Tessa dances competitively & plays soccer, basketball and volleyball.

‣Tessa can shake her eyeballs and roll her tongue into a flower.

‣When she was 11, Tessa cut close to 10 inches her hair in support of Pantene Breast Cancer research.

Acting

‣Her adorable McDonalds Happy Meal Commercial for The Tigger Movie movie created a record for the longest running happy meal commercial. It ran for three weeks.

‣Tessa earned the name "one take Tessa" on the set of Enough.

‣Her mom helped out on the set of Enough by getting Tessa to fall asleep and then putting her in the car for a scene.

‣In Enough, Tessa painted Gracie’s room of the house Gracie & Slim move into.

‣Tessa scared the crew on Enough with her scenes of crying in the back of the car because she was so real.

‣Tessa and Jennifer Lopez were close during the filming of Enough and J-LO was very protective of her.

‣During the filming of Enough, Tessa spent a lot of time pretend sleeping and is great at it.

‣In Tessa's first few episodes of Providence, as Hannah Hansen, she had to appear and act younger than she really was in order to bridge the age gap between herself and the previous Hannah.

‣Tessa began on Providence, just after filming Enough
She was the first non-twin to play Hannah Hansen in Providence.

‣Tessa loved filming scenes with Mike Farrell on Providence and the crew was mesmorized at how well they could play off each other.

‣When Melina Kanakeredes' daughter visited the set of Providence, she and Tessa played with each other and with the doctor props which they loved to hide around the set.

‣Tessa learned how to play the piano on Providence when the Hansen’s acquired a piano.

‣On Providence, Tessa began her expert career as a flower girl. She appeared in two weddings on Providence and then one on General Hospital.

‣In her episode of CSI:Miami, Tessa wore a wig.

‣After her CSI:Miami episode aired, many message boards were full of thoughts about the season finale and almost all said that the chemistry between Horatio and Emma was amazing and unlike any other Horatio and child moment that has been shown.

‣In Walls of Jericho, Tessa and on-screen mom Karen Geraghty (Elizabeth) have played mother and daughter before.  They first met on the set of the Jif Peanut Butter commercial and again on Walls of Jericho.  Karen says that she has worked with many kids before through commercials, short films, ect. but non compare to Tessa.

‣Tessa's character Lulu on General Hospital was "de-aged" so that Tessa could have the role after appearing as a guest. It is a rarity for characters on soap operas to be de-aged, usually they are made older when switching actors.

‣On General Hospital while filming her role as Molly, Tessa became friends with Steve Burton and stayed friends when she returned to the show as Lulu, even though their characters never interacted.

‣Tessa became close to many of the cast of GH, especially those that she spent a lot of time with like Greg Vaughn (Lucky) and Denise Alexander ('Grandma'/Lesley Webber)

‣She lived up to her “one take Tessa”  nickname on ‘Little Canyon’ during a pivotal scene in the film where Tessa/Greta is kicked out of her family car. The sun was going down and the director only had one take to get the shot - which they did.