Jena Malone

Biography

Born 11/21/1984

This rising young child actress made a big splash on the big screen in 1997 playing Jodie Foster's character as a young girl in "Contact". Jena Malone had already garnered raves and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her debut performance in Anjelica Huston's gritty adaptation of "Bastard...
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Highlights

In 2008, Co-starred in the horror film "The Ruins" along with Shawn Ashmore and Johnathan Tucker
In 2007, Cast in Sean Penn's adaptation of the non-fiction book, "Into the Wild" starring Emile Hirsch
In 2006, Made her Broadway debut as Sister James in John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt"

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Family & Companions

Deborah Malone: mother (Jena filed a 1999 lawsuit claiming "excessive spending and mismanagement" by her mother, as well as breach of contract; suit settled allowing Malone to become an emancipated minor with Deborah Malone forgoing claims to any and all of her daughter's earnings)
Madison Mae Malone: half-sister (Born in August 1997)

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