Jenna Elfman Net Worth

Jenna Elfman's Quotes

• Creatively, you need to go live life. As an artist, you are representing life. So you have to rub elbows and be out in it.
• I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
• I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.
• I just think that it's [Dharma & Greg] such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.
• I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Interesting Facts about Jenna Elfman

1. Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas.
2. Is a classically-trained ballet dancer.
3. Graduated from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, class of 1989. She was senior class representative (dance dept), on Student Arts Council.
4. Niece of singer Tony Butala, who founded and performs with the vocal group The Lettermen.
5. She started taking classical ballet at the age of five, but by nine, she suffered a serious ankle injury, and at age 12, the tendon came off the bone. She later gave up ballet at the age of 16.
6. Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2004 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003); however, she failed to receive a nomination.
7. She is the daughter of Susan (Grace) and Richard Gregory Butala. Her father is of Croatian descent, and her mother has English, Scottish, and German ancestry.
8. Daughter-in-law of Richard Elfman and Marie-Pascale Elfman.
9. Was among the guests at Tom Cruise's and Katie Holmes' wedding ceremony in Italy.
10. Gave birth to her son Story Elias Elfman, with husband Bodhi Elfman, in Los Angeles, weighing in at 7lbs 2oz (23 July 2007).
11. Susan Sullivan, who played the mother-in-law of her character, Dharma, in the series Dharma & Greg (1997), also played the mother of her character Lizzie, in the series Brothers & Sisters (2006).
12. Turned down a role in Minority Report (2002).
13. Gave birth to her son Easton Quinn Monroe Elfman, with husband Bodhi Elfman, in Los Angeles at 7.53am, weighing in at 7lbs 12oz (2 March 2010).
14. Was four months pregnant with her son Easton when she completed filming on the first series of Accidentally on Purpose (2009).
15. Returned to work four months after giving birth to her son Easton in order to begin filming Friends with Benefits (2011).
16. Was to perform on Broadway in the musical "Nine", as a replacement for Jane Krakowski. Citing lack of proper time, she left the show during rehearsals and was replaced by Krakowski's understudy. [October 2003]
17. Niece (by marriage) of Danny Elfman and Bridget Fonda.