Jenna Lamia is an American actress, writer, and audiobook narrator.

Career

Acting

Lamia began her acting career in New York City, where she appeared on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's ''

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'' at Lincoln Center. She soon moved on to television and film appearances, and is best known for her roles as Sherri Ward in ''

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'' with

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and

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, Siobhan Miller in '' Law and Order: SVU'', Carrie Schillinger in '' Oz'', and as Poppy Downes in Comedy Central's ''

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'', with

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. Over the span of her career, she has appeared on and off-Broadway, in over 30 television shows and feature films, and voiced video games and animated characters for film and television. As of 2021, she appears as Judy Cooper in the Syfy television series ''

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'', starring

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Audiobook narration

As an

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narrator, Lamia has won several golden earphones awards from '' AudioFile'' magazine, and was named Female Narrator of the Year in 2010 by the

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. Also in 2010, she won Best Solo Narration - Female for '' The Chosen One''. She voiced Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan in ''

The Help ''The Help'' is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett and published by Penguin Books in 2009. The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A ''USA To ...

'', which won best fiction audiobook of the year in 2010. In 2020, she won another Audie Award as part of the ensemble cast of Jarrett Krozocska's ''Hey, Kiddo''.

Writing and producing

Lamia is also a writer and producer of television and films. After selling her first feature script, ''All About Me'', to

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in 2006, she joined the writing staff of

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's '' 90210''. After ''90210'', Lamia went on to write, produce, and act in ''

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''. She began writing and producing the dramedy '' No Tomorrow'' in 2016. In 2017, she began writing and co-executive producing the crime comedy-drama '' Good Girls'' for

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. In December 2019, it was announced that she would write and executive produce an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel ''The Perfect Couple'', for the

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network. In April 2021, production began on the feature film ''

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'', which Lamia adapted from the 2016 novel by

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. In August 2022, Netflix announced it would produce the limited series '' The Perfect Couple'', which Lamia will write and executive produce. The series is an adaptation of ''

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'' bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand.

Filmography

Acting

Writing

Television

Film

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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