High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976) is a Canadian model and actress. She attended York University and studied in the field of forensic psychology. Ford`s father is Afro-Barbadian and her mother is Russian and Norwegian. She is often referred to as Jessica Rabbit, after the character from the animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit whose voluptuous figure Ford`s is said to resemble.