Actress and dancer Jenna Dewan is from the United States. She began her career backing up Janet Jackson, and then collaborated with Missy Elliott, Pink, and Christina Aguilera. She gained notoriety for playing Nora Clark in the 2006 movie Step Up. She also had a recurring part in the FX series American Horror Story: Asylum and appeared in the short-lived NBC series The Playboy Club.
On the Lifetime series Witches of East End, Dewan played Freya Beauchamp. She also played Lucy Lane in the CW shows Supergirl and Superman, Lois, and Joanna in the Netflix series Soundtrack. Dewan served as a judge on Come Dance with Me and hosted the reality television programs World of Dance and Flirty Dancing. On ABC’s The Rookie, she presently plays the role of Bailey. Additionally, she appeared often in the FOX medical drama The Resident.
Summary
| Name | Jenna Dewan |
| Net Worth | $30 million |
| Occupation | Actress, Dancer |
| Age | 41 years |
| Height | 1.57m |
Details
Jenna Lee Dewan was born on December 3, 1980 (she is now 41 years old) in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is the child of Darryll Dewan, a running back for the 1972 Notre Dame football team, and Nancy Smith Bursch. Her mother has German and English lineage, while her father is of Lebanese and Polish background. Dewan traveled about a lot as a young kid; before to entering the seventh grade, she said she had lived in seven different locations.
Dewan cheered for the varsity team as a student at Towson, Maryland’s Notre Dame Preparatory School. She changed schools and enrolled at Grapevine High in Grapevine, Texas. She was a varsity cheerleader there as well, and during her senior year, she was chosen as prom queen. She attended the University of Southern California and belonged to the Pi Beta Phi chapter in California Gamma.
First appearing in Janet Jackson’s “Doesn’t Really Matter” music video in 2000, Jenna Dewan then made further appearances in “All for You” and the All for You Tour in 2001. She believes that working with Jackson helped her career since it opened her opportunities to collaborate with many other musicians and gave her the expertise she needed to co-star in the dance movie Step Up. Dewan posed for a campaign and photoshoot for dancewear brand Danskin in 2016 that highlighted and showcased her dancerly athleticism.
In addition to appearing in Take the Lead the same year, Dewan co-starred with Channing Tatum in Step Up. Dewan was one of the five rule-breaking teenagers in the Lifetime made-for-television movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which aired in August 2008. She played Coach Emma Carr, a strict disciplinarian. She co-starred with Rob Schneider in the straight-to-DVD comedy American Virgin in November 2009.
Dewan was hired for the NBC Playboy Club pilot in March 2011. The show was renewed by NBC for a full season in May 2011. She played the daring Playboy bunny Bunny Janie, who works at a Playboy Club in Chicago in 1961. On September 19, 5.2 million people watched the series’ debut, which received mixed reviews from reviewers. In October 2011, NBC canceled the show after only three episodes due to poor ratings.
In November 2011, Jenna Dewan played the lead role in the movie The Jerk Theory. 2009 saw the debut of this in Germany. In November 2011, it was subsequently released in America. In the romantic comedy 10 Years, Jenna Dewan co-starred with her then-husband Channing Tatum, who also served as co-producer. Release day for the movie was September 14, 2012. In the second season of the horror television series American Horror Story: Asylum the same year, she played Teresa Morrison.
In 2013, Dewan made her television debut as Freya Beauchamp, one of the main characters in the Lifetime series Witches of East End. She started playing Lucy Lane, a recurrent character, in the CBS/CW series Supergirl in late 2015, and she returned to the role in the show’s spinoff Superman & Lois. She also played a recurrent character in The Resident on FOX. The Wedding Year, Berlin, I Love You, and Soundtrack are some of Dewan’s planned endeavors.
In the third season of ABC’s The Rookie, she was cast as Bailey, and in the fourth season, she was given the title of series regular. Dewan founded 33andOut Productions with the help of friends Reid Carolin, Adam Martingano, Brett Rodriguez, and Channing Tatum. Earth Made of Glass, their debut film, is a documentary that follows Jean-Pierre Sagahutu and Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda and survivors of the genocide. The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival had its world debut.
Together, Dewan and Tatum served as executive producers on the YouTube Premium/Starz television series Step Up. She performed a nude photo shoot for the May 2014 edition of Allure. Vegan and an advocate for animal rights, Jenna Dewan. She was named one of the top three “Sexiest Vegans” by PETA in 2017.
In 2009, Jenna Dewan married Channing Tatum, who later became her second husband. Dewan and actor Channing Tatum met while working on the film Step Up in 2006, at which point they began dating. On July 11, 2009, they exchanged vows in Malibu, California. One daughter was born to them in 2013. The couple announced their separation on April 2, 2018. Dewan filed for divorce from Tatum six months later. In November 2019, their divorce was legally formalized. It was made official that Dewan was dating actor Steve Kazee in October 2018. She and Kazee announced their engagement in February 2020. A boy was born to them in 2020.
What is Jenna Dewan’s net worth? An estimate of Jenna Dewan’s net worth puts it at roughly $30 million. Her work as an actor and dancer is her primary source of income. In addition to her other job earnings, Jenna Dewan makes approximately $3 million a year in pay. She is one of the most wealthy and well-known young actresses in the country. Her lucrative job has allowed her to enjoy opulent living and expensive travel. Jenna Dewan has a decent body weight that complements her personality and a pleasing height of 1.57 meters.