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Jenna Dewan

Jenna Dewan

Birthday: 1980-12-03 | Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Jenna Lee Dewan (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress and dancer. She started her career as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, and later worked with artists including Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Missy Elliott. She is known for her role as Nora Clark in the 2006 film Step Up. She has also starred on the short-lived NBC series The Playboy Club and had a recurring role on the FX series American Horror Story: Asylum. She portrayed Freya Beauchamp on the Lifetime series Witches of East End, Lucy Lane in The CW series Supergirl and its spin-off, Superman & Lois and Joanna in Soundtrack on Netflix. Dewan has hosted the reality television shows World of Dance and Flirty Dancing and served as a judge on Come Dance with Me. She currently stars as Bailey on ABC's The Rookie. She also had a recurring role on the FOX medical drama The Resident. Dewan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Nancy Bursch Smith (née Bursch) and Darryll Dewan, who was a running back on the 1972 Notre Dame football team. Her father is of Lebanese and Polish descent and her mother is of German and English ancestry. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother remarried Claude Brooks Smith. During high school at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, Dewan was a varsity cheerleader. She graduated in 1999 and was voted prom queen her senior year. She went to University of Southern California and was a member of the California Gamma Chapter of Pi Beta Phi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenna Dewan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
Flirty Dancing

as    Herself - Host

2019
The Wedding Year

as    Jessica

2019
Soundtrack

as    Joanna Kassem

2019
Berlin, I Love You

as    Mandy

2017
World of Dance

as    Self

2013
Witches of East End

as    Freya Beauchamp

2013
Slightly Single in L.A.

as    Hallie

2012
10 Years

as    Jess

2012
She Made Them Do It

as    Sarah

2011
The Playboy Club

as    Bunny Janie

2011
2011
The Jerk Theory

as    Molly

2011
Balls to the Wall

as    Rachel Matthews

2010
Falling Awake

as    Alessandra

2010
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

as    Sarah Jane

2009
American Virgin

as    Priscilla White

2008
Love Lies Bleeding

as    Amber

2008
2006
Step Up

as    Nora Clark

2006
Take the Lead

as    Sasha

2005
Tamara

as    Tamara Riley