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Jenna Lee Dewan (born December 3, 1980, in Hartford, Connecticut),[1] born to Darryll Dewan and Nancy Lee Bursch Smith, is an American actress. Jenna's parents divorced when Jenna was young and her mother remarried to Claude Brooks Smith. She graduated from Grapevine High School, in Grapevine, Texas in 1999. She starred as the title character in the 2005 horror film Tamara playing an unpopular high school student who is picked on by classmates, dies, is buried by her classmates, then comes back to seek revenge. Other films that Dewan has appeared in include Waterborne (2005), Take the Lead, Step Up, and The Grudge 2 (all released in 2006). She is currently filming Love Lies Bleeding with Christian Slater in New Mexico.

Prior to starring in film, she was a dancer, working for various famous performers such as Justin Timberlake, 'N Sync, Sean Combs, Ricky Martin, Billy Crawford, and Janet Jackson in both live performances and music videos.