
Acting
Sep 22, 1967
Los Angeles, California, USA
Jenna Stern
Acting
Biography
Jenna Louise Stern (born September 23, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. Member of an artist family, Stern is the daughter of actor/producer Tom Stern and Academy award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Samantha Eggar. Her brother, Nicolas Stern, is a producer for film and television. She married actor Brennan Brown in 1998, and they live in Brooklyn, New York. Stern graduated from the U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. and received her M.F.A. from NYU Graduate School. Credits include: Broadway: The Elephant Man Off-Broadway includes: Francine Volpe’s Late Fragment at Studio Dante, Amy Fox’s Summer Cyclone at EST, Erin Cressida Wilson’s Hurricane at CSC, Kate Robin's Intrigue With Faye at NY Stage and Film and David Auburn’s Skyscraper at Greenwich House Theater. Regional theatre includes: Hedda Gabler(Dallas Theater Center) Closer(Alley Theater) Othello (Portland Stage) and Love’s Labours Lost(NJShakespeare). Film: The Hungry Ghosts, 16 Blocks , Hitch, Random Hearts , The Eden Myth, Wirey Spindel, Picture Perfect and The Red Right Hand. Television: Canterbury’s Law, Gossip Girl, The Sopranos, Law and Order (s), Six Degrees, The Jury, Queens Supreme, HBO’s Baseball Wives, the ABC mini-series Widows, Spin City and The Larry Sanders Show.
Feature Films (13)

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.
16 Blocks

Can you keep a family secret? Prepare to enter the dark and funny world of the Speck family. Ruled by gray-haired patriarch Vincent Speck, they appear to be your average upper-class American family as they gather together for the weekend. Siblings snipe at each other behind their backs, and the parents worry about the future. Signs that all is not well within the Specks' world begin when Vincent announces the arranged marriage of his son Aldo to a woman he has never met. They are set to marry the next day. Soon after the wedding, the eldest son, Edward, is found dead in his bedroom. What's going on here?
The Eden Myth

When five friends return home for a high school reunion, it's clear they are hiding a dark secret. While becoming reacquainted, horrifying images of the past haunt them. Slowly the strong ties that bind the group begin to unravel and the terrifying story of rage, revenge and a friend buried alive is told.
The Red Right Hand

After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.
Random Hearts

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
Game Change

Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.
The Best and the Brightest

The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Wonder Wheel

Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
Hitch

James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Picture Perfect

Two music managers must put their history aside to oversee the televised reunion performance of their rock star fathers with a fractured past.
One December Night

Barb is a 14-year-old high school track star and cheerleader in love with her 15-year-old star athlete boyfriend when a single moment of passion changes their lives forever. Chris is a black teenager who is pregnant because of rape and lives with other runaways in parks and under bridges. Both girls deny their situation for too long as they avoid making the most important choice of their young lives. As Chris and Barb seek answers to help make their decision about having a baby or terminating the pregnancy, the film presents interviews with experts on those questions with opposing views about a woman's right to choose.
South Dakota
Television & Series (29)

An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl

The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
The Sopranos

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
Spin City

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.






