Jena Malone

Biography

Jena Malone (born November 21, 1984) is an American actress, musician, and photographer. She made her film debut in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and has appeared in films including Ellen Foster (1997), Contact (1997), Stepmom (1998), For Love of the Game (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Life as a House (2001), Saved! (2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Into the Wild (2007), The Ruins (2008), Sucker Punch (2011), The Hunger Games film series (2013–15), The Neon Demon (2016), Nocturnal Animals (2016), and Antebellum (2020). Malone is also an indie pop musician who has released music both under her own name (as "Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains") and as one-half of the duo The Shoe.

Known For

Law & Order

Chicago Hope

The Boroughs

Homicide: Life on the Street

Touched by an Angel

Goliath

One Battle After Another

Punk'd

All Movies (78)

• One Battle After Another2025 · as Greeting Code (voice)
• Heroic Dose2025 · as Jena
• Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 12024 · as 'Ellen' Harvey
• Love Lies Bleeding2024 · as Beth
• Little Death2024 · as Jessica Klein
• Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire2023 · as Harmada
• Consecration2023 · as Grace
• Adopting Audrey2022 · as Audrey
• Swallowed2022 · as Alice
• Stardust2020 · as Angie Bowie
• Lorelei2020 · as Dolores
• Antebellum2020 · as Elizabeth
• The Public2019 · as Myra
• Angelica2017 · as Constance
• Bottom of the World2017 · as Scarlett
• Lovesong2017 · as Mindy
• Deus ex Machina: The Philosophy of 'Donnie Darko'2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nocturnal Animals2016 · as Sage Ross
• The Neon Demon2016 · as Ruby
• The Caged Pillows2016 · as Ediza
• Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 22016 · as Self (Johanna Mason)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22015 · as Johanna Mason
• The Rusted2015 · as Karen
• Time Out of Mind2015 · as Maggie
• The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 12015 · as Self - Johanna Mason
• Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman2015 · as Self
• Inherent Vice2014 · as Hope Harlingen
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 12014 · as Johanna Mason
• Memory 2.02014 · as Sophie
• 10 Cent Pistol2014 · as Danneel
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013 · as Johanna Mason
• Center Jenny2013 · as Nark Vision1
• Teenage2013 · as American Girl (voice)
• The Wait2013 · as Angela
• In Our Nature2012 · as Andie
• The Painted Lady2012 · as Painted Lady
• Dakota2012 · as Dakota
• For Ellen2012 · as Susan
• Their Houses2011
• Sucker Punch2011 · as Rocket
• David Goldberg2011 · as Vida
• Five Star Day2010 · as Sarah Reynolds
• Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize2010 · as Gretchen Ross (archive footage)
• Rachel2010 · as Rachel
• The Messenger2009 · as Kelly
• The Soloist2009 · as Cheery Lab Tech
• The Ruins2008 · as Amy
• Lying2008 · as Grace
• Into the Wild2007 · as Carine McCandless / Additional Narration (voice)
• The Go-Getter2007 · as Jeoly
• Four Last Songs2007 · as Frankie
• Container2006 · as The Woman / Speaker (voice)
• Pride & Prejudice2005 · as Lydia Bennet
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose2005 · as Red Berry
• Corn2004 · as Emily Rasmussen
• Saved!2004 · as Mary Cummings
• Break Up2004 · as Girl
• Cold Mountain2003 · as Ferry Girl
• The United States of Leland2003 · as Becky Pollard
• The Badge2002 · as Ashley Hardwick
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys2002 · as Margie Flynn
• Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'2002 · as Self
• American Girl2002 · as Rena Grubb
• Life as a House2001 · as Alyssa Beck
• The Ballad of Lucy Whipple2001 · as California Morning "Lucy" Whipple
• Donnie Darko2001 · as Gretchen Ross
• Cheaters2000 · as Jolie Fitch
• For Love of the Game1999 · as Heather
• The Book of Stars1999 · as Mary McGuire
• Stepmom1998 · as Anna Harrison
• Ellen Foster1997 · as Ellen Foster
• Hope1997 · as Lilly Kate Burns
• Contact1997 · as Young Ellie
• Bastard Out of Carolina1996 · as Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright
• Hidden in America1996 · as Willa
• The Movers— · as Kay
• Sylvia— · as Sylvia
• Buff— · as Joss

All TV Shows (14)

• The Boroughs2026 · as Claire Cooper
• Too Old to Die Young2019 · as Diana
• Goliath2016 · as Samantha Margolis
• Hatfields & McCoys2012 · as Nancy McCoy
• Child Star Confidential2006 · as Self
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil2003 · as Geli Raubal
• Punk'd2003 · as Self
• MTV Europe Music Awards1994 · as Self - Presenter
• Touched by an Angel1994 · as Casey Peña
• Chicago Hope1994 · as Stacy Morissey
• Homicide: Life on the Street1993 · as Debbie Straub
• HBO First Look1992 · as Self
• Law & Order1990 · as Michelle Landon
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Ellen Foster