1. Jena Malone next appeared in the feature films Contact and Stepmom, winning a Saturn Award for the former.
42 Facts About Jena Malone
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Jena Malone began the 2000s with the independent psychological thriller Donnie Darko, which became a cult film.
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Jena Malone furthered this success with the drama films The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Into the Wild, and the horror film The Ruins.
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Jena Malone made her foray into action films with Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, and earned her highest-grossing releases with the role of Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games film series which won her a Teen Choice Award.
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Jena Malone's continued television credits include the crime dramas Too Old to Die Young and Goliath.
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Jena Malone was born on November 21,1984, in Sparks, Nevada, the daughter of Deborah Jena Malone and Edward Berge.
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Jena Malone's father is of partly Norwegian descent; she has Irish ancestry.
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Jena Malone was raised by her mother and her mother's girlfriend.
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Jena Malone grew up impoverished; her family relocated frequently and at times was homeless.
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Jena Malone subsequently persuaded her mother to move to Los Angeles so she could pursue an acting career.
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Jena Malone has said that she and her mother struggled financially in Los Angeles.
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Jena Malone was home-schooled from sixth to eighth grade and attended the Professional Children's School in New York City for ninth grade.
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Jena Malone progressed to professional acting with the film Bastard Out of Carolina.
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Jena Malone was nominated at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards for Best Debut Performance and at the third Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her role in the film.
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Jena Malone played Heather Aubrey, the teenage daughter of Kelly Preston in the 1999 movie, For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner.
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Jena Malone had her first cinematic leading role in the psychological science fiction thriller film Donnie Darko, playing Gretchen Ross, the new girl in town who becomes the girlfriend of Jake Gyllenhaal's title character.
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Jena Malone co-produced the independent comedy-drama American Girl, the first feature in which she had top billing, co-starring with Brad Renfro and Alicia Witt as a suicidal young woman whose father is in prison.
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In 2002 Jena Malone played the part of a Catholic schoolgirl with a painful secret opposite Emile Hirsch in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, featuring Vincent D'Onofrio and Jodie Foster.
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In 2003, Jena Malone appeared as "ferry girl" in Cold Mountain.
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Jena Malone was cast as Lydia Bennet in Joe Wright's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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In 2006 Jena Malone made her Broadway stage debut as Sister James in a production of the Tony Award-winning play Doubt.
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Jena Malone followed this with supporting roles in the independent comedy The Go-Getter, playing a young woman reunited with her middle school crush, and the biographical drama Into the Wild, in which she portrayed the sister of Chris McCandless.
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Jena Malone began performing impromptu live shows on street corners in 2008.
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In 2011 Jena Malone played the role of Rocket in Zack Snyder's action film Sucker Punch.
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The film's commercial failure caused Jena Malone to reevaluate her career and consider focusing on photography and music.
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In 2012 Jena Malone starred in Dakota, a series on the YouTube channel Wigs, portraying the title character.
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Jena Malone was attached to play Carson McCullers in the film Lonely Hunter, directed by Deborah Kampmeir, and had a supporting role in Brian Savelson's independent drama In Our Nature opposite Zach Gilford, Gabrielle Union, and John Slattery, playing one of several young people on a couples' getaway.
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In 2013 Malone reunited with M Blash and co-star Chloe Sevigny in the independent drama The Wait, portraying the sister of a woman who believes their dead mother will be resurrected.
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In 2014 Jena Malone exhibited 39 photographs she had taken in Myanmar that summer.
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Also in 2014 Jena Malone had a supporting role in Paul Thomas Anderson's neo-noir film Inherent Vice, portraying an ex-heroin addict who hires a detective to find her husband.
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Jena Malone was cast as Jenet Klyburn in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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In February 2015 Jena Malone was cast alongside Elle Fanning in Nicolas Winding Refn's horror film The Neon Demon, which focuses on an aspiring model in Los Angeles.
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The film garnered criticism for a scene in which Jena Malone engages in necrophilia.
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Jena Malone co-starred with Riley Keough in So Yong Kim's drama film Lovesong, playing a young woman who falls in love with her female best friend.
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Jena Malone is credited as co-writer and featured vocalist on the Foster the People track "Static Space Lover" from the band's third album, Sacred Hearts Club, released on July 21,2017.
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Jena Malone appeared in the movies Stardust and The Tuna Goddess.
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In 1999, at age 15, Jena 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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In 2003, at age 19, Jena Malone purchased a home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where she resided as of 2012.
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In 2014, Jena Malone began a relationship with photographer Ethan DeLorenzo.
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Jena Malone has been in a relationship with musician Alex Ebert as of 2019.
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Jena Malone endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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In 2022, Jena Malone helped rescue a dog that was being abused by its owner, and donated to a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of its surgery.