Jenna Dewan life and biography

Jenna Dewan is an American actress, producer, dancer, and former model. She is well known for her leading roles in Tamara and Step Up.

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 and was voted prom queen her senior year, as well as receiving the Ms. GHS award, honoring the most well rounded and well thought of male and female student from each class. She went to USC and was a member of the California Gamma Chapter of Pi Beta Phi.

Jenna was discovered by a dance agent and toured alongside some of the greatest in music entertainment, most notably Janet Jackson and Ricky Martin. She has also appeared in several music videos for artists such as Justin Timberlake, Mandy Moore and 'Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott'. She has also appeared in several television sitcoms including "Quintuplets" (2004), "The Young and the Restless" (1973) and "Joey" (2004). Jenna is most noted for her role as "Nora Clark" in the movie Step Up (2006), in which she plays a accomplished dancer.

Filmography:

2006: Take the Lead; Step Up Won
Teen Choice Award Choice Movie: Dance; The Grudge 2
2009: Falling Awake; American Virgin; The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
2011: Balls to the Wall; Setup; Ten Year

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