Cissy Jones grew up in Boise, Idaho, and when she was six years old, she knew she wanted to be an actor. However her father gently steered her toward finance and business as solid career paths, and she listened. She went off to earn a business degree, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she spent nearly ten years in Silicon Valley working for a venture capital firm and a string of startups. After several weeks logging eighty to a hundred hours for a company that was "not great", she saw her situation as a square peg in a round hole, and underneath it all she kept asking whether this was really what she was meant to do with her short time on the planet. This is when Cissy had what she calls her "Cosmic Zipper" moment. She had always thought it would be fun to be a voice on The Simpsons, and one day she heard one of the Simpsons cast on a radio show describing voice-over as an amazing career, and mentioning, almost in passing, that there happened to be a wonderful voice-over school in the Bay Area near where Cissy lived. With a little encouragement from her aunt Kim, Cissy called the school and started classes that week. What followed was an era of finishing her day job at five to make a six-thirty class that ran until ten, then finishing the rest of the day's work until midnight, then waking up again at six to do it all over. She taught herself to audio engineer so that she could still sit in on classes even when she couldn't afford them. She even stopped fast-forwarding through commercials and started really listening to understand the different skills she needed to develop in this line of work.

Two years of hard work paid off and Cissy landed an agent. Her first role she landed was Katya from TellTale's The Walking Dead, along with several other female characters, and this opportunity was enough to light her fire and make her want to make the move to LA to really give this a shot. Cissy made the move, certain that she was on fire, and upon landing in LA that fire turned to crickets. A year passed with no work. She kept auditioning but the lack of work made her more and more desperate, until her agent told her that he could smell the desperation in her slate, and that nobody hires desperation. It was, as she puts it, a dark night of the soul, and the way through was not another audition but a rebuilding of herself through meditation, exercise, finding a community, and the slow, hard work of no longer tying her worth to her bookings. The fog eventually lifted and gigs started to appear such as the voice of Ralphs and a Charlize Theron voice match, but the work that truly defined her career came out of video games. Over the years, her instinct to play everything grounded, paired with a timbre that naturally lends itself to women in command, made her a fit for leaders like Commander Sloan in Destiny and Fury in Darksiders 3, but the watershed role was Delilah in Firewatch. Delilah was a faceless character the player had to weigh entirely on personality and conversation rather than how she looked. Cissy's performance won multiple awards and even a BAFTA. Roles such as these crystallized exactly the sweet spot Cissy had been searching for: strong characters carrying a thread of vulnerability, exploring the gray space between the damsel and the badass. As Cissy continues to grow her roster of inrcredible VO charactes, she has also discovered Performance Capture, where she finally gets to walk into a scene and react to other actors in real time. A new medium and a new muscle she is also hungry to keep building.