She is an actress with a loyal following on social media.
But this woman got her start in Hollywood as a dancer who could kick her heels with some of the best.
In 2006, she was the star of a small dance movie that turned into a big deal and spawned several sequels.
From then on, she appeared in a few movies like The Wedding Years and TV shows like Supergirl and Superman & Lois.
Her personal life was front page news when she divorced an A-list star a few years ago. She is now engaged to another man.
Over the weekend, the beauty shared photos from when she was a kid, and she was definitely ready to act as she modeled a cheerleader outfit and dance dresses.
Can you guess who she is?
Cute boy: She is an actress with a loyal following on social media. Can you guess who this child turned into?
Cheerful: This woman started out in Hollywood as a dancer who could kick her heels with some of the best. In 2006, she was the star of a small dance movie that grew into a big deal and spawned several sequels.
Dancing Queen: From then on she appeared in a few movies like The Wedding Years and TV shows like Supergirl and Superman & Lois
Pretty in pink: Her personal life was front page news when she divorced an A-list star a few years ago. Over the weekend, the beauty shared photos from when she was a kid, and she was definitely ready to perform. Can you guess who she is?
She is 42-year-old Jenna Dewan.
Her big break came when she started dancing for Janet Jackson in music videos and on stage.
She then starred in the dance/love story Step Up which co-starred Channing Tatum, whom she would marry in 2009 and have a daughter.
The little girl’s name is Everly and she is now 10 years old.
Jenna and Channing divorced in 2019.
Jenna is now engaged to Steve Kazee – her beau since 2018. Together they have a son named Callum Michael Rebel Kazee, three.
Her career has been a steady climb upwards.
She was born in Connecticut to mother Nancy Smith (née Bursch) and father Darryll Dewan, but the family moved a lot to states like Maryland and Texas.
In high school, she became a varsity cheerleader and a prom queen during her senior year.
She attended the University of Southern California and was a member of Pi Beta Phi’s California Gamma chapter.
Her dancing career began when she appeared in Janet Jackson’s Doesn’t Really Matter video in 2000 and later in All for You and the All for You Tour in 2001.
In 2006, Step Up came when she appeared in Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal and American Virgin.
In 2011, Dewan was cast in the NBC pilot of The Playboy Club. She played Bunny Janie, a Playboy bunny who works at a Playboy Club in Chicago in 1961.
Then came the movie The Jerk Theory in 2011.
She worked with Tatum again in the romantic comedy film 10 Years in 2012.
The big reveal: She’s 42-year-old Jenna Dewan. Her big break came when she started dancing for Janet Jackson. She then starred in the dance/love story Step Up which co-starred Channing Tatum, whom she would marry in 2009 and have a daughter. Dewan channeled her inner Barbie when she went to breakfast at The Giving Movement in early August
That same year, she appeared as Teresa Morrison in American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of the horror television series.
In 2013, Dewan started starring in the Lifetime series Witches of East End as Freya Beauchamp.
In late 2015, she began a recurring role on the CBS/CW series Supergirl as Lucy Lane, and reprized the role on the spin-off Superman & Lois.
She also had a recurring role on FOX’s The Resident.
She joined the cast of ABC’s The Rookie as Bailey in the third season and was promoted to series regular in the fourth season.
Jenna also lit the Lifetime movie Let’s Get Physical in 2022.
She was last seen in sportswear in early August. The star wore a bra top, leggings and a jacket from The Giving Movement.
The company focuses on sustainability. The website indicates that the clothing is made from 80 percent recycled polyester and 20 percent recycled spandex.
The brand donates $4 from every item sold to charity. The organization said a small amount is enough to provide a child in need with food, shelter and water for a week at community centers in India.
According to her Instagram Stories, the Superman and Lois actress was in New York to attend an event for Neostrata.
Background: She was born in Connecticut to mother Nancy Smith (née Bursch) and father Darryll Dewan, but the family moved around a lot. He was a running back on the 1972 Notre Dame football team. In high school, she became a varsity cheerleader and a prom queen during her senior year. She attended the University of Southern California and was a member of the California Gamma chapter of Pi Beta Phi
Jenna is an ambassador for the skincare brand.
In a post on the company’s social media page, the model explained that she turned to the products for help with melasma.
It is a condition that causes discoloration of the face, usually due to hormone changes in the body during pregnancy or when using hormonal birth control, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.
The wrist brace the Let’s Get Physical star has been wearing lately was out of sight as she hiked through the Big Apple.
Jenna showed how she hurt her arm in a workout video posted on social media.
“For anyone wondering how I earned my latest accessory,” she captioned a video showing her high box springs.
The somewhat blurry video shows how her pinky finger bent back ended up near her wrist.
She also shared a close-up photo of the painful injury and a photo of her x-ray.
In an interview with USA weeklythe Take the Lead star downplayed it as a “stupid accident.”
Rising: Her dancing career began when she appeared in Janet Jackson’s video Doesn’t Really Matter in 2000 and later All for You and the All for You Tour in 2001. In 2006 came Step Up and then she appeared in Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal and American Virgin. In 2011, Dewan was cast in the NBC pilot of The Playboy Club. Then came the movie The Jerk Theory in 2011. She worked with Tatum again in the romantic comedy film 10 Years in 2012
“It was just a real accident, but I thought to myself, ‘How funny I’ve been dancing and swinging my body all my life, but this is how I break a bone?’ So that’s life for you.”
“I initially thought I had broken a nail,” she told the outlet on Tuesday.
“I was like, ‘Oh, I think I broke my nail.’ And then I looked down and thought, “Hmm, my nail’s still there. Okay, I heard a snap.” It wasn’t until the end that I said, “Uh-oh.”‘
Jenna revealed that she is under doctor’s orders to wear the braces for four weeks.
For her son Callum, it was great news for show and tell.
She said the tyke, ‘went and told all (of his teachers), ‘My mama has a boo-boo on her hand.’
The Teen Choice Award winner said she earned a lot of prestige at home when Steve and her daughter learned she did 10 more jumps before going for treatment.
The injury didn’t stop her from collecting a plethora of bracelets from other Swifties as she attended the Taylor Swift concert in Los Angeles this weekend.