Peep Jenna Thiam, a Belgian slim ginger model and actress. Jenna caught the acting bug at four and knew she was destined for stardom.
Starting her modeling career as a wee one, Jenna did ads for the popular clothing brand Bonpoint. But she got fed up with the scene and bounced to New York at seventeen to study acting at Columbia University theater. She had to bounce back home, though.
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In Paris, she joined the acting program at Florent and got her first TV gig in the pilot series of the popular French teen show Clem, as well as the French version of SCI RIS police scientific. Later, she leveled up her studies at the Higher National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. Her big break was scoring a role in the series Les Revenants, which blew up internationally.
This led Jenna to work with heavy-hitting European directors like Claude Lelouch, Kim Chapiron, Vania Uluturk, and Eric sere. Despite her film hustle, Jenna stayed in school and bagged a master’s degree in General and Comparative Literature in 2015, with a dissertation on the relationship between poetry and politics. She even turned down a role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales to focus on her studies, and the part ended up going to the British actress Kaya Scodelario.
In her short career, the red-haired actress has slayed on screen, starring in Les Revenants and the film Anton Tchékhov 1890, where she played the role of Lika Mizinova. Keep an eye out for Jenna Thiam – she’s making moves!
