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- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Jenna was born on Long Island, New York, and moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s. She's been a musical theater actress, starring in several productions of Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. She became a makeup artist as a day job and started doing it professionally. She later became an entertainment reporter and host.
Jenna became an avid runner during the pandemic and has completed 13 marathons to date, with more on the way. She's writing a book on running.
Jenna has hosted and written for sites like /Film, Vital Thrills, SYFY, Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, The Washington Post, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on ABC's Nightline, Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, What the Flick?!, in the documentaries She Makes Comics, Rise of the Superheroes, Write of Passage: An Author's Journey, and on NPR and Al Jazeera America. Jenna is a member of the Critics Choice Association, as well as the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology: Heroic, is a contributing author and assistant editor for 14 (and counting) books in the #PsychGeek series like "Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind," and "Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth," and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. She recently married actor, voiceover artist, writer, director, and musician Jeffrey Henderson. They reside in Los Angeles with three cats.- IMDb Mini Biography By: J. Henderson
- SpousesJeffrey Henderson(May 18, 2023 - present)Eric Thompson(2003 - 2011)
- Jenna has been a vegetarian since the day she left for college at 18. She's been active in helping homeless animals find a forever home and has had rescue pets including dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, lizards and a ball python.
- Jenna earned a BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University. She played Eva Peron in 3 productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (later using that character in her The Pretender: The Centre Chronicles graphic novel), Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Super Star and Sarah Brown in Guys 'N Dolls.
- Jenna was the Global Makeup Artist for both Delux Beauty and Two-Faced Cosmetics, appearing on QVC and The Shopping Channel respectively.
- Jenna created the Legion of Leia, an online initiative to support and promote women in sci-fi, featuring profiles of and interviews with everyone from Jane Espenson (Once Upon a Time) to Ashley Eckstein (Star Wars: The Clone Wars).
- Jenna has appeared in a number of publications, including 3 issues of the pinup magazine Cupcake Quarterly cosplaying as Cersei from Game of Thrones and a Star Wars shoot, the Women of Geekdom 2012 calendar as a valkyrie and the 2014 Celebrity Pet Adoption Calendar along with Felicia Day, Wil and Anne Wheaton and Seth Green.
- I didn't just want to wag my finger. I wanted to do something positive to support women who create the things we genre fans love, inspire young women who want to be a part of this creation, give fans a place to talk and let the world know how many of us there actually are.
- I've been a vegetarian for almost 3 decades. I don't care if you eat/cook/talk about meat in front of me. You do not have to apologize for eating meat. You don't have to tell me how many years you were a vegetarian or why it didn't work for you. I am not judging you and I am not recruiting. Now, can we just go out to eat?
- And I don't buy the argument, 'Well, this one woman might be a huge part of the story!' Well, so was Leia. Leia was a huge, huge part of the story. She still very well may be. But - I have a niece and a nephew. And when my niece goes out to play 'Star Wars,' she's going to have one more woman to be. She's going to see herself in one more person. My nephew is going to see himself all over the place.
- Anyone who knows me will laugh their asses off at this, but I was kind of shy as a kid. Fantasy novels like "The Hobbit" and Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonsinger" trilogy allowed me to dream of a time when I could shine. It was theater that allowed me to find my extra shiny voice. (Oh, I'll never pass up a "Firefly" reference.) Sure, we weren't fighting Wargs and a dragon, but, like the Dwarves, the Wizard and one little Hobbit, we bonded over some seriously intense time spent together. Later on, I'd attempt to conquer the makeup industry and entertainment journalism. Again, not dragon slaying or saving towns, but personally, it was a pretty powerful journey.
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