Jessica Andrews is a fictional character portrayed by Robyn Lively in the film The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and in the fifth season of its sequel series Cobra Kai (2022).

After two months, she meets Daniel LaRusso (as Mr. Miyagi's Bonsai shop was across the street), and as she had recently broken up with her boyfriend, they planned to go out on a date.

He meets a young woman working on a pottery wheel, and explains to her that he has just opened a Bonsai tree shop across the street with his partner, and is in need of pots.

Daniel then learns that her name is Jessica Andrews, and after seeing a picture of her rock-climbing with a man whose face is missing from the photo, also discovers that she has recently broken up with her boyfriend (as he had started dating their high school classmate, Elizabeth Anne Rooney, whom she later describes to Daniel as "the traitor").

That evening when Daniel comes to pick up Jessica, he learns that she and her boyfriend are getting back together, and that she is going to return home to Columbus after Thanksgiving.

The next evening, Jessica visits the Bonsai shop with macaroni and cheese, which turns out to be one of Daniel's favorite foods.

They are then interrupted by Mike Barnes, Snake, and Dennis, who begin to attack the shop when they discover that Daniel has still not signed the form.

When Daniel goes to confront Dennis, Jessica attempts to intervene, but is pushed away from the fight by Barnes, telling her to "stay there".

When Snake rushes to help Dennis, Jessica punches him in the stomach, but is then kicked away by Barnes, who begins to fight with Daniel.

An experienced rock climber, Jessica works with him to retrieve the tree, though she has reservations about the fact that he did not tell Mr. Miyagi.

As they are putting the tree into a bag, they see Mike Barnes, Snake, and Dennis pulling the ropes back up the mountain.

Following up on what seemed like a karate suggestion from Silver (which he assures Daniel is the key to success in a tournament), he asks Mr. Miyagi, "Do you know how to Sweep?"

Infuriated, Daniel, drives off in a rage, as Jessica and Mr. Miyagi watch, and goes to join Cobra Kai in order to work with Silver.

As they are dancing, Silver appears (though hidden by a beam), and finds a random man in the room whom he bribes to hit on Jessica.

In what seems to be a coincidence, the random man appears and grabs Jessica by the arm saying, "Hold up, sexy lady...I've been watching you and you are hot".

In 2019, after having a falling out with Daniel over her inability to understand that he is telling her the truth about Terry Silver being a psychopath, Amanda takes Sam and Anthony to visit her mother Joanne in Ohio for a while.

She then reveals to Amanda about their experiences with Silver back in 1985, recalling that he pretended to be Daniel's friend and then his mentor while having Barnes, Snake and Dennis harass him, Jessica, and Mr. Miyagi.

Lizzie-Anne then bullies Jessica and Amanda again over the latter's delinquent youth, causing her and her friends get into a physical fight with the two women.

She then jokes how she and Amanda got into a bar fight over nothing, but that Daniel has every reason to hate Silver for how he had made his life worse, as Jessica even admits she herself still has nightmares from those events.

[3] However, Hurwitz notes that the return of Terry Silver offered a perfect opportunity to make this kind of connection: "It gets to the point where Terry has sort of driven [Daniel] crazy enough to make him look like a crazy person in front of Amanda.... "Amanda is just like, 'I need a break from this' and leaves town.

[3][2] Lively also enjoyed reuniting with her co-stars, stating that there was "ton of screaming and dancing and lots of just joy...I hadn't seen Ralph since I was in my early twenties.

[3] Although she has always viewed her early work on The Karate Kid III as "an absolute career highlight",[1] she acknowledges the "frustration" on the set as they "didn't have a complete script.

[1] She also notes that although her character was originally written as "a love interest", the relationship was eventually rewritten as a platonic one, which Lively suspects was due to the significant difference in their ages.