Jenna Dewan

Date of birth: December 3, 1980
Age: 29

Jenna Lee Dewan is an American actress.

Dewan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Nancy Lee (née Bursch) and Darryll Dewan, who was starting running back for the 1972 Notre Dame Football Team. Dewan is of half Lebanese ancestry. Her parents divorced when Dewan was young and her mother remarried to Claude Brooks Smith. During high school at Grapevine High School, in Grapevine, Texas Jenna was a varsity cheerleader and won many dance competition awards. She graduated in 1999. She went to USC and was a member of Pi Beta Phi.

Prior to starring in film, she was a dancer, working for various famous performers such as Justin Timberlake, 'N Sync, Sean Combs, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion, Pink, Missy Elliott, Ricky Martin, Billy Crawford, and Janet Jackson in both live performances and music videos.

Dewan starred as the title character in the 2005 horror film Tamara, playing an unpopular high school student who is picked on by classmates, dies, is buried by her classmates, then comes back to seek revenge. Other films that Dewan has appeared in include Waterborne (2005), Take the Lead, Step Up, and The Grudge 2 (all released in 2006). Dewan filmed Love Lies Bleeding with Christian Slater in New Mexico in March 2007. Also in 2007, Dewan filmed "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay", and "The Jerk Theory".

See also:  Actress,  American,  Dancer,  Pi Beta Phi,  University of Southern California