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Jenna Elfman (born September 30, 1971,
in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American
television and film actress.
Early life: Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala
in Los Angeles, California, to Sue Grace, a homemaker,
and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive.
She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the
Arts as a dance major and graduated in 1989. Her uncle
is Tony Butala of The Lettermen. She studied with acting
teacher Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse
before beginning her television career.
Career: She began as a professional dancer, then
made a switch to acting in the early 1990s. Elfman did
extensive commercial work before landing her first
series jobs, making guest appearances in the 1995–1996
season on the ABC series Roseanne, NYPD Blue, The
Monroes, and Murder One, and the CBS sitcom Almost
Perfect.
A role as a drug counselor in the NBC
made-for-TV movie Her Last Chance came in 1996 as well,
before the charismatic actress auspiciously landed a
regular role as the boy-crazy Shannon, one of three
young working class waitresses in the Molly Ringwald
sitcom vehicle Townies. Although short-lived, Townies
proved a big break for Elfman, who impressed ABC
executives with her scene-stealing turn and signed her
own sitcom deal before the last Townies episode aired.
This deal led to Elfman's best known role on the popular
sitcom Dharma & Greg, which ran on ABC from 1997 to
2002. She won a Golden Globe Award for this role, and
was nominated twice for an Emmy Award. In 1999 , she
co-hosted the Emmy Awards presentation with David Hyde
Pierce.
In 2004 , Elfman produced and starred in a feature film
called Touched. In November 2005 , CBS announced that
Elfman vehicle, Courting Alex would be a midseason
replacement, premiering in January 2006. It was
announced in May that the show did not get picked up,
and was thus cancelled. However, CBS immediately inked a
new development deal with Elfman to create a comedy
vehicle for her, as reported in The Hollywood Reporter
on June 2, 2006.
Elfman also starred in the movies Krippendorf's Tribe,
EDtv, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Keeping the
Faith.
Personal life: Elfman met her husband, actor
Bodhi Elfman, at a Sprite commercial audition in
February of 1991. They married in 1995, making director
Richard Elfman her father-in-law and noted composer
Danny Elfman her uncle-in-law.
In 2005, Elfman appeared at the Church of
Scientology-affiliated Citizens Commission on Human
Rights' controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of
Death" museum grand opening and is described on the
organization's website as a supporter.
In May 2006, Jenna visited her high school alma mater to
urge students to set career goals and encourage them to
persist in their chosen professions.
In January 2007, Elfman and her husband announced they
are expecting their first child together. On July 23,
2007, Jenna and her husband welcomed a son, Story Elias,
weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Will Ferrell's site
Funnyordie.com, aired a video "Mama Jams" of
Elfman and her husband. |
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