“I had two moms, and it was awesome.”
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Jena Malone
Jena Malone is an American actress and musician. Malone spent her early life in Sparks, Nevada, and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions. Inspired to become an actress herself, Malone convinced her mother to relocate to Los Angeles. After a series of auditions, Malone was cast in the television film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), for which she received Independent Spi…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1984) · television actor · film actor · actor · film producer · singer · musician · also Jena Malone, Malone
Born 21 November 1984 · Q233368
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 13,295 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 3,754, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 17,373 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 3,754, with 0 article edits.
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Malone became engaged to actor Jack Buckley
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2022· 2 entries
Malone helped rescue a dog that was being abused by its owner, and donated to a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of the dog’s surgery
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In 2022, Malone helped rescue a dog that was being abused by its owner, and donated to a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of the dog’s surgery.
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2019· 1 entry
And musician Alex Ebert began a relationship, which has since ended
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2014· 3 entries
From 2014 to 2019, Malone was in a relationship with photographer Ethan DeLorenzo, to whom she was engaged from 2016 until their separation.
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Malone had a supporting role in Paul Thomas Anderson's neo-noir film Inherent Vice (2014), portraying an ex-heroin addict who hires a detective (Joaquin Phoenix) to find her husband
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Malone exhibited 39 photographs she had taken in Myanmar that summer
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2012· 1 entry
Malone starred in Dakota, a series on the YouTube channel Wigs, portraying the title character
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2011· 1 entry
Malone played the role of Rocket in Zack Snyder's action film Sucker Punch
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2008· 1 entry
Formed the musical project The Shoe, which features Malone performing with a series of electronic instruments contained within a steamer trunk
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2007· 1 entry
It was announced that Malone was releasing her first single on The Social Registry, a New York City experimental music label, as Jena Malone and the Bloodstains
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2006· 1 entry
Malone made her Broadway stage debut as Sister James in a production of the Tony Award-winning play Doubt
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2003· 2 entries
Jena appeared as "ferry girl" in Cold Mountain, and played Becky Pollard in the thriller The United States of Leland
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At age 19, Malone purchased a home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where she resided as of 2012
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2002· 1 entry
Malone played the part of a Catholic schoolgirl with a painful secret opposite Emile Hirsch in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, also featuring Vincent D'Onofrio and Jodie Foster
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2000· 1 entry
Malone played the leading role in Cheaters, a television film which chronicles the true story of a Chicago high school team that cheated in the United States Academic Decathlon
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1999· 2 entries
Malone obtained a General Educational Development certificate in 2001
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At age 15, Malone filed for legal emancipation from her mother in a Los Angeles County Court, and subsequently alleged that her mother had mismanaged her earnings, spending $280,000 of her trust account
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1998· 1 entry
Played the role of an unwed mother who is suspected of murdering her newborn baby in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street
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1997· 1 entry
Was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her role in the television film Hope (1997), portraying a young girl growing up in a small town in the 1960s
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1995· 1 entry
Moved to Las Vegas, where she resided with her family for nine months, and began taking acting classes while her mother worked in a call center
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984-11-21.
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