jena malone

With an angelic face and a physique very typical of a young Hollywood star, Jena Malone has departed from the professional conventions typical of girls her age who succeed in the mecca of cinema. In her career, instead of light comedies for teens, there is a cast of tormented characters. And it seems that this girl has come to the world of cinema to suffer.

He was born on November 21, 1984 in Lake Tahoe (Nevada). He grew up with his mother, with whom he did not get along. At the age of 6, she was already an actress and at 15, Jena, she legally obtained economic emancipation from her mother, so that since then she has been an independent young woman. This tough decision of hers was made because, according to her, her mother mismanaged the income she earned from her fledgling career. Despite what it may seem, this harsh event did not turn Jena’s life upside down, she has behaved at all times as a fairly focused girl.

Her acting career began in 1991 in a chapter of the television series Roseanne . As she confesses, she started in the acting world because she loved stories and she wanted to be part of them. “I always thought it was something she could do for a few years, but it turned out that I’m still there,” she says. In fact, it took five years for her to get in front of a camera again, but since then she hasn’t stopped. Her first film was the drama Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), where she was the daughter of Jennifer Jason Leigh .. Both characters went through a thousand difficulties to get ahead in their life lacking in resources. This family drama has been the first of many others, as it has specialized in the roles of troubled daughters in not entirely typical families. Examples are titles such as the telefilm Ellen Foster , or the dramatic Stay by my side (1998), where she was the daughter of Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris , who watched her mother die of cancer while she had to adapt to the girlfriend ( Julia Roberts ) of his father. She also spent her thing on American Girl(2002), which was his first leading role. On this occasion, she lived in a poor and dysfunctional family, so her only dream was to see her father who was in jail. Her family also suffered their own in Leland’s World (2003), as Jena’s brother died at the hands of her boyfriend; This tragedy inevitably shook not only the life of her young character, but that of all her relatives. She also did not do very well in Saved! (2004), where she was a pregnant teenager who was rejected by her teachers and friends. And as a finishing touch, there is her excellent role in Towards the Wild Routes (2007). Sean Pennentrusted her to be the sister of the missing protagonist and narrator of the story. Her character bears a great weight on her shoulders, as she struggles between comforting her parents and trying to understand why her brother left.

Beyond this specialty in family dramas, Jena has gone through other types of titles, although her characters have always been imbued with a point of originality far removed from the typical pretty girl created in Hollywood. Among these types of titles, Contact (1997) stands out, where she was the child’s version of Jodie Foster , a girl misunderstood because of her passion for extraterrestrial life. It is also worth mentioning her secondary role in the cult film and unclassifiable in terms of genre Donnie Darko (2001). Despite her supporting role, she had the honor of falling in love with the weirdo protagonist ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) of the movie, so it can be said that her very conventional character was not her.

After the general public knew her thanks to Stay by my side , years passed until Jena returned to a title seen by many. It was in the Austenian Pride and Prejudice (2005) where she became the little sister of Keira Knightley . This time she turned out to be quite an unbearable girl, so she once again strayed away from the Hollywood brands of the ideal, cute and perfect young lady.

Coincidentally, it is now when everything written finds an exception. It’s not that she’s turned to light comedy, because this girl doesn’t laugh at everything, but she has given in to a typically Hollywood character. She is one of the protagonists of the teen horror film Las Ruinas.. Here she bends to the standards of the genre and squeals like the most, she shows off her palms in a bikini and has the best boyfriend in the world. She is an uncomplicated girl who just wants to have a good time, so her problems this time go through pure and hard terror. Therefore, this is one of Jena’s flattest characters, although she should not detract from the shocking performances that she has accumulated throughout her career. Give her a break, though the girl is delighted with the designs of human suffering, it’s about time she switched to somewhat more trivial evils. It is one thing to be born to suffer and another to die trying.