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.
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Acting History
2025
One Battle After Another as Greeting Code (voice)
2025Heroic Dose as Jena
2024Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 as 'Ellen' Harvey
2024Love Lies Bleeding as Beth
2024Little Death as Jessica Klein
2023Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire as Harmada
2023Consecration as Grace
2022Adopting Audrey as Audrey
2022Swallowed as Alice
2020Stardust as Angie Bowie
2020Lorelei as Dolores
2020Antebellum as Elizabeth
2019Too Old to Die Young as Diana
2019The Public as Myra
2017Angelica as Constance
2017Bottom of the World as Scarlett
2017Lovesong as Mindy
2016Deus ex Machina: The Philosophy of 'Donnie Darko' as Self (archive footage)
2016Nocturnal Animals as Sage Ross
2016Goliath as Samantha Margolis
2016The Caged Pillows as Ediza
2016The Neon Demon as Ruby
2016Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (Johanna Mason)
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Johanna Mason
2015The Rusted as Karen
2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Johanna Mason
2015Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self
2014Inherent Vice as Hope Harlingen
2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Johanna Mason
2014Memory 2.0 as Sophie
2014Time Out of Mind as Maggie
201410 Cent Pistol as Danneel
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Johanna Mason
2013Center Jenny as Nark Vision1
2013Teenage as American Girl (voice)
2013The Wait as Angela
2012In Our Nature as Andie
2012The Painted Lady as Painted Lady
2012Dakota as Dakota
2012Hatfields & McCoys as Nancy McCoy
2012For Ellen as Susan
2011Their Houses
2011Sucker Punch as Rocket
2011David Goldberg as Vida
2010Rachel as Rachel
2010Five Star Day as Sarah Reynolds
2010Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as Gretchen Ross (archive footage)
2010Rachel as Rachel
2009The Messenger as Kelly
2009The Soloist as Cheery Lab Tech
2008The Ruins as Amy
2008Lying as Grace
2007Into the Wild as Carine McCandless / Additional Narration (voice)
2007The Go-Getter as Jeoly
2007Four Last Songs as Frankie
2006Container as The Woman / Speaker (voice)
2005Pride & Prejudice as Lydia Bennet
2005The Ballad of Jack and Rose as Red Berry
2004Corn as Emily Rasmussen
2004Saved! as Mary Cummings
2004Break Up as Girl
2003Cold Mountain as Ferry Girl
2003Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Geli Raubal
2003The United States of Leland as Becky Pollard
2003Punk'd as Self
2002The Badge as Ashley Hardwick
2002The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys as Margie Flynn
2002American Girl as Rena Grubb
2001Life as a House as Alyssa Beck
2001The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as California Morning "Lucy" Whipple
2001Donnie Darko as Gretchen Ross
2000Cheaters as Jolie Fitch
1999For Love of the Game as Heather
1999The Book of Stars as Mary McGuire
1998Stepmom as Anna Harrison
1997Ellen Foster as Ellen Foster
1997Hope as Lilly Kate Burns
1997Contact as Young Ellie
1996Bastard Out of Carolina as Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright
1996Hidden in America as Willa
1994MTV Europe Music Awards as Self - Presenter
1994Touched by an Angel as Casey Peña
1994Chicago Hope as Stacy Morissey
1993Homicide: Life on the Street
1992HBO First Look as Self
1990Law & Order as Michelle Landon
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ellen Foster
—The Boroughs as Claire
—The Movers
—Sylvia as Sylvia