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Jenna Lee Dewan was born on December 3, 1980, in Hartford, Connecticut, and turned a dance career into a long run as an actress and TV host, according to Wikipedia. Her father, Darryll Dewan, was a running back on the 1972 Notre Dame football team.
Dewan moved often as a child and lived in seven cities before seventh grade. She was a varsity cheerleader in Maryland and Texas and studied at the University of Southern California. She first appeared in Janet Jackson's "Doesn't Really Matter" video in 2000, then in "All for You" and on the All for You Tour in 2001, and she credits Jackson with opening doors to work with Christina Aguilera, Pink and Missy Elliott. In 2016 she was the face of a Danskin dancewear campaign.
In 2006 she starred opposite Channing Tatum as Nora Clark in Step Up and also appeared in Take the Lead. On TV she had a recurring role on American Horror Story: Asylum (2012), played Freya Beauchamp on Lifetime's Witches of East End (2013-14) and Lucy Lane on Supergirl (2015-16) and Superman & Lois (2022-23), and starred in Netflix's Soundtrack (2019). Since 2021 she has played Bailey Nune on ABC's The Rookie.
She hosted World of Dance (2017-18) and Flirty Dancing (2019) and judged Come Dance with Me (2022).
Now she is a contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 35. On Dedication Night she dances a Viennese waltz to "Unchained Melody" for her mom, Nancy, with pro Alan Bersten, filling in during Val Chmerkovskiy's one-week suspension. Read our DWTS Dedication Night guide and the story of Val's suspension.
Sources: Wikipedia
Our newest Jenna Dewan story, from October 19, 2026, is "DWTS Dedication Night 2026: How to Vote, Air Time, Couples and Every Season 35 Elimination So Far": Grab the tissues: 10 couples dance for the people who shaped them on Tuesday, October 20. Here's when it airs, exactly how to vote, who's dancing with whom and who's gone home.
Nora Clark, opposite Channing Tatum, in the 2006 film (Wikipedia).
Alan Bersten, while her usual partner Val Chmerkovskiy serves a one-week suspension (our DWTS guide).
She has played Bailey Nune on ABC's The Rookie since 2021 (Wikipedia).
