Jenna Owen

Title
Writer & Actor
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Jenna Owen is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer, director and producer.

Known for her collaboration with comedy partner Vic Zerbst, together they wrote, produced and starred in both the telefeature Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story for STAN & the US network CBS, as well as their new comedy series, Optics for the ABC and ITV in the UK. In Nugget Jenna stars as Shayla and in Optics she’s the indomitable Nicole Kidman (no relation). Jenna and Vic created acclaimed content for Comedy Central, JUNKEE Media, the ABC, and SBS’s The Feed for which they won three AWGIE awards.

Their work has amassed over 90 million views online and has been featured in Elle, Marie Claire and Harper’s Bazaar. Jenna's other lead acting credits include the series regular role of Zoe in the BBC’s Queen of Oz opposite Catherine Tate, Rose in the ABC comedy series Mother and Son, Erika in Wellmania for Netflix, Mia in the ABC / Jungle comedy series Squinters, Amber in the US NBC series Joe vs Carole opposite Kate McKinnon and the role of Kris in the drama series Eden for STAN.

Jenna has toured nationally with The Chaser war on 2020, has appeared at Fringe and Comedy festivals, including Splendour in the Grass, co-starred in sold-out shows at The Chaser’s Giant Dwarf Theatre, and starred as Rachel in the world premiere of David Williamson’s Sorting Out Rachel at the Ensemble Theatre.

Jenna and Vic are currently developing projects with Easy Tiger Productions, Kindling Pictures and See Saw Films.
Jenna Owen