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Jennifer Mary "Jenna" Elfman (born September 30, 1971) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles as Dharma Freedom Finkelstein Montgomery on the 1997-2002 American television sitcom Dharma & Greg and as Anna Riley in the 2000 feature film Keeping the Faith.
Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, California, the youngest daughter of three children, to Sue (Grace) Butala, a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive. Her father's younger brother, Elfman's uncle, is Tony Butala, lead singer since 1958 of the American vocal trio The Lettermen. She is of Croatian ancestry on her father's side and was raised Roman Catholic.
Taking ballet class since the age of five, Elfman became a classically trained ballet dancer and attended high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). She then attended college at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Elfman began her professional career as a dancer, appearing in the music video for "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode from the 1990 album Violator, a video that was exclusively included on the band's 1990 music video compilation Strange Too. She also danced in the video for Chris Isaak's 1995 single "Somebody's Crying" and toured with the rock band ZZ Top on their 1994 World Tour as a "Legs Girl".
Actors: Scott Prendergast (writer), Eric Fogel (actor), Eric Fogel (writer), Mike de Seve (actor), Greg Korin (actor), Karen Sztajnberg (editor), Abby Terkuhle (producer), Matt Noce (miscellaneous crew), Scott Sonneborn (writer), Scottie Ray (actor), Carl Paolino (miscellaneous crew), Jed Spingarn (writer), Kerry Williams (actress), Jim Conroy (actor), Emily Bauer (actress),
Plot: Animated clay figures Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond host this show, which features a series of no holds barred, to-the-death wrestling matches between animated celebrities. Past matches include Marilyn Manson vs. Charles Manson, The Three Tenors vs. the Three Stooges, Howard Stern vs. Kathy Lee Gifford, and Mary-Kate vs. Ashley. The referee for each match is the unflappable Judge Mills Lane.
Keywords: blindness, blood, broken-arm, broken-back, broken-leg, cannibalism, catfight, clay-animation, death, deathmatch