Jenna Elfman life and biography

Jenna Elfman is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg and as Billie on the short-lived CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose.

Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, the daughter of Sue (née Grace), a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive. She is of Croatian ancestry on her father's side and was raised Roman Catholic.

Jenn Elfman is best known for her role as Dharma in the hit series "Dharma and Greg," for which she won a Golden Globe Award, three Emmy Award nominations and two TV Guide Awards. She is currently filming the pilot Bad Mom for ABC. Elfman also has an impressive feature film resume, starring opposite Ben Stiller and Edward Norton in the film Keeping the Faith, and opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in Ron Howard's EdTV among many others.

Elfman is a classically trained ballerina who was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives there with her husband Bodhi Elfman and their two sons.

Some of her interests include charity: water, criminal rehabilitation and a slight obsession with recycling.

Filmography:

2009: The Six Wives of Henry Lefay; Love Hurts
2011: Friends with Benefits

Television:

2004: Two and a Half Men
2006: Courting Alex
2007: Brothers & Sisters
2008: My Name Is Earl
2009-2010: Accidentally on Purpose

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