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Jenna Dewan
Dewan at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon 2012
Born	Jenna Lee Dewan (1980-12-03) December 3, 1980 (age 31) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model, dancer
Years active	2002–present
Height	5'3" (1.60 m)
Spouse	Channing Tatum (m. 2009–present)
Website
http://www.jennadewanunwrapped.com

Jenna Lee Dewan-Tatum (born December 3, 1980), better known by her birth name Jenna Dewan, is an American actress, dancer, and former model. She has worked in films like Step Up and American Virgin. Jenna is married to film actor Channing Tatum and is also co-founder of "33andOut Productions" and "Iron Horse Entertainment".

Early life[link]

Dewan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Nancy Lee (née Bursch) and Darryll Dewan, who was a running back on the 1972 Notre Dame Football team.^[1] Dewan is of half Lebanese ancestry.^[2] 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. She went to USC and was a member of the California Gamma Chapter of Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ).

Dance career[link]

Prior to starring in film, she was a dancer working for various famous performers such as Clinton Troupe, 'N Sync, Sean Combs, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion, Pink, Missy Elliott, Ricky Martin, Billy Crawford, and tour with Janet Jackson on her All for You Tour and appeared in music videos accompanying the album All For You. Jenna also featured in Christina Aguilera's music video for the single "Not Myself Tonight

Acting career[link]

Dewan at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

Jenna has had small roles in films such as The Hot Chick, The Grudge 2, Dark Shadows, Waterborne as well as guest appearances in television series such as Quintuplets, The Young and The Restless and Joey.

She starred in the independent 2005 horror film Tamara from the producers of Final Destination. The film failed to have box office success only earning worldwide a total of $206,871. The film was released to negative reviews with a rating of 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.

In 2006, she appeared in her most known role to date as Nora Clark in Step Up. A box office success, it earned a total of $119,193,847 worldwide but received mixed to negative reviews. She appeared in another Dance film Take The Lead as Sasha in a supporting role. The film received extremely negative reviews, but still managed to rank third at the box office.

In 2008, she appeared as the lead role of Amber in the Straight to DVD Romance/Action film Love Lies Bleeding. She appeared as Emma Carr in the Lifetime Made For Television movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premiered August 2, 2008.

In 2009 she appeared in Falling Awake and Magdalena. She starred alongside Rob Schneider in the comedy film American Virgin, which follows a night of debauchery threatening a sexually abstinent student's college standing. She then appeared in The Six Wives of Henry Lefay alongside Elisha Cuthbert. In January 2010 she also appeared in The Jerk Theory with her Step Up co-star Josh Henderson.

She also signed on to play the character of Kendra Wilson in a two-episode arc in the 2009 Melrose Place reboot on The CW.

Along with friends Reid Carolin, Adam Martingano, Brett Rodriguez^[3] and husband Channing Tatum, Dewan started a production company called 33andOut Productions.^[4] Their first production is a documentary called Earth Made of Glass that follows the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu. The film was selected to premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.^[5]

Personal life[link]

Dewan with husband Channing Tatum in February 2010

In 2006, Dewan met Channing Tatum on the set of Step Up. They began dating shortly after filming had finished.^[6] The couple got engaged in early September 2008 in Maui, Hawaii.^[7] On July 11, 2009, they were married on the grounds of Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu, California.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Television Movies[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jenna Dewan

• Jenna Dewan at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
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• Jenna Dewan on Facebook
• "Talking Tamara with Jenna Dewan" at UGO.com