Jenna Elfman is an American actress, who is known for her performance in television comedies, such as 'Dharma & Greg' and ' Accidentally on Purpose'. A California native, Elfman was a student at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). When she was five years old, she began training in ballet. However, she was eventually forced to quit after the tendon separated from her bone. At the beginning of her professional career, she was a dancer and appeared in various music videos. She made her screen debut as an actor in a 1992 episode of ‘Murder, She Wrote’. Elfman landed her first leading role in 1996 in the ABC sitcom ‘Townies’. A year later, she made her cinematic debut in the action-comedy film ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’. Her most well-known outing was the ABC sitcom ‘Dharma & Greg’, for which she earned three Primetime Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999. At present, Elfman is part of the main cast of the AMC horror-drama series ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.
