Mini Biography
Jenna Mattison started her career in Chicago appearing on television and radio. She blossomed within the theatre community as a teenager playing Catherine in Arthur Miller's View From A Bridge. With extensive training and having lent her talents to many productions in theatres such as the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre, Jenna made her move to Los Angeles.
Upon arrival she began landing film and television roles, guest starring on Beverly Hills 90210, Party Of Five, and The Fighting Fizgeralds. A writer/producer as well, Jenna founded Cheshire Smile Productions, bringing to life her feature film Fish Without A Bicycle, a festival winning coming of age comedy directed by Brian Austin Green . For which Jenna was reviewed by many publications including The New York Times, L.A. Times and Hollywood Reporter as " a revelation & a breath of fresh air", "equal parts Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts", "Mattison has the movie star ability to hold the screen with her blazing red hair and radiant smile." "Fish" is now available on Netflix. She then returned to her theatre roots to rave reviews in an off-broadway run of the critically acclaimed comedy "Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies" and was reviewed as "The glue that held the production together". Jenna continues to appear in other films, such as her starring role as Summer in Drew Ann Rosenberg's Sex & A Girl opposite Allison Lohman & Danny Masterson and the independent movie Hip, Edgy, Quirky- a comedy about the Hollywood lifestyle with Phyllis Diller. She recently has signed on to play Annie in the 2007 thriller Death Walks The Streets a trilogy of films opposite Christian Kane and just wrapped The Naked Run, a political satire opposite Maxine Bahns and Richard Tyson..
Jenna has also signed on to "Brenda Starr Reporter", produced by Tribune , Classic Media and Constance M. Burge, creator of "Charmed", to play the title role of Brenda Starr the fiery red headed 1940's comic strip icon and is being helmed by Warner Horizon TV. Another project in development at Lawrence Bender's company "A Band Apart Is "The Stable", a gritty television series with Mattison starring and writing alongside Scott Lobdell, famed Marvel comics writer and creator of Ball & Chain & Hell Hole. Another television pilot in development at the Warner Bros. company Last Straw Is another Mattison original dramedy "Liza Radley" being executive produced by Anthony La Paglia. Ever moving forward, writer/producer Jenna Mattison stars as Maggie Malone along side Sean Maguire, Betty White & Armand Assante in Cheshire's second release The Third Wish now available on direct TV.
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