Jenna Elfman
Birth name	Jennifer Mary Butala
Born	September 30, 1971 (1971-09-30) (age 35) Los Angeles, CA, USA
Spouse(s)	Bodhi Elfman
Official site	www.jennaelfman.com

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Biography

Early life

Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, California, to Sue Grace, a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive. She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a dance major and graduated in 1989. Her uncle is Tony Butala of The Lettermen. She studied with acting teacher Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse before beginning her television career. Hughes logo adopted after his death Hughes developed the AIM-120 AMRAAM, one of the worlds most advanced air-to-air missiles Hughes Aircraft Company was a major defense/aerospace company founded by Howard Hughes. ... Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) is a public high school that operates on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. ... The Lettermen are a pop music vocal group. ... Milton Katselas Milton Katselas (born December 22, 1933) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, is an American director and famed Hollywood acting teacher at The Beverly Hills Playhouse, who has taught such stars as Jenna Elfman, George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Selleck, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ted Danson, Tony Danza, Jeffrey Tambor... The Beverly Hills Playhouse is one of the oldest acting schools and theatres in Los Angeles. ...

Career

She began as a professional dancer, then made a switch to acting in the early 1990s. Elfman did extensive commercial work before landing her first series jobs, making guest appearances in the 1995–1996 season on the ABC series Roseanne, NYPD Blue, The Monroes, and Murder One, and the CBS sitcom Almost Perfect. A role as a drug counselor in the NBC made-for-TV movie Her Last Chance came in 1996 as well, before the charismatic actress auspiciously landed a regular role as the boy-crazy Shannon, one of three young working class waitresses in the Molly Ringwald sitcom vehicle Townies. Although short-lived, Townies proved a big break for Elfman, who impressed ABC executives with her scene-stealing turn and signed her own sitcom deal before the last Townies episode aired. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Roseanne is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. ... NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... The Monroes was a television series first shown in 1966. ... The major cast of Murder One Murder One was a television series first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... Almost Perfect was a situation comedy aired in the United States on the CBS television network in 1995 and 1996. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. ... Townies was a short-lived situation comedy broadcast in 1996 by ABC. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Billy Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron Livingston. ...

This deal led to Elfman's best known role on the popular sitcom Dharma & Greg, which ran on ABC from 1997 to 2002. She won a Golden Globe Award for this role, and was nominated twice for an Emmy Award. In 1999 , she co-hosted the Emmy Awards presentation with David Hyde Pierce. This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... Dharma & Greg was an American television situation comedy broadcast between 1997 and 2002 on ABC. The premise of the show was a relationship between two characters regarded as cultural opposites. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2002. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... An Emmy Award. ... David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the sitcom Frasier. ...

In 2004 , Elfman produced and starred in a feature film called Touched. In November 2005 , CBS announced that Elfman vehicle, Courting Alex would be a midseason replacement, premiering in January 2006. It was announced in May that the show did not get picked up, and was thus cancelled. However, CBS immediately inked a new development deal with Elfman to create a comedy vehicle for her, as reported in The Hollywood Reporter on June 2, 2006. Courting Alex was an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The show debuted on January 23, 2006 and was a vehicle for Jenna Elfman of Dharma & Greg fame. ... A midseason replacement is a television show that premieres in the second half of a television season usually between January and April. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2006. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Elfman also starred in the movies Krippendorf's Tribe, EDtv, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Keeping the Faith. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... EDtv is a movie directed by Ron Howard released in 1999. ... Looney Tunes: Back in Action was a 2003 Warner Bros. ... Keeping the Faith is a 2000 comedy film, written by Stuart Blumberg and directed by Edward Norton. ...

Personal life

Elfman met her husband, actor Bodhi Elfman, at a Sprite commercial audition in February of 1991. They married in 1995, making director Richard Elfman her father-in-law and noted composer Danny Elfman her uncle-in-law. Bodhi Elfman (born July 19, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. ... Sprite is a clear soda, lemon-lime flavored, caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. ... Richard Rick Elfman (born March 6, 1949, in Los Angeles, California) is a Jewish-American film director, writer and actor, best known amongst cult film fans for his 1980 film Forbidden Zone. ... Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter who led the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1976 until its breakup in 1995, and has since 1985s Pee-Wees Big Adventure worked as a film score composer. ...

In 2005, Elfman appeared at the Cult of Scientology-affiliated Citizens Commission on Human Rights' controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"^[1] museum grand opening and is described on the organization's website as a supporter.^[2] The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR; also sometimes known as the Citizens Committee on Human Rights) is an advocacy group established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Thomas Szasz. ...

In May 2006, Jenna visited her high school alma mater to urge students to set career goals and encourage them to persist in their chosen professions.^[3]

In January 2007, Elfman and her husband announced they are expecting their first child together. ^[4]

On July 23, 2007, Jenna and her husband welcomed a son, Story Elias, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces.

Will Ferrell's site Funnyordie.com, aired a video "Mama Jams" of Elfman and her husband. [1]

References

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External links

• Jenna Elfman's official site
• Jenna Elfman at the Internet Movie Database
• Jenna Elfman at MySpace
• Jenna Elfman at TV.com
• Jenna Elfman's short film on Funny Or Die