# Jenna Lamia

Jenna Lamia is an American actress, writer, and audiobook narrator. She developed the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple, and also served as its showrunner. She is also known for her role as Judy in the Netflix series Resident Alien, and is a writer on a few episodes.

## Career
### Acting

Lamia began her acting career in New York City, where she appeared on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at Lincoln Center. She soon moved on to television and film appearances, and is best known for her roles as Sherri Ward in The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Siobhan Miller in Law and Order: SVU, Carrie Schillinger in Oz, and as Poppy Downes in Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy, with Amy Sedaris. Over the span of her career, she has appeared on and off-Broadway, in over 30 television shows and feature films, and voiced video games and animated characters for film and television. As of 2021, she appears as Judy Cooper in the Syfy television series Resident Alien, starring Alan Tudyk.

### Audiobook narration

As an audiobook narrator, Lamia has won several golden earphones awards from AudioFile magazine, and was named Female Narrator of the Year in 2010 by the Audio Publishers Association. Also in 2010, she won Best Solo Narration - Female for The Chosen One. She voiced Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan in The Help, which won best fiction audiobook of the year in 2010. In 2020, she won another Audie Award as part of the ensemble cast of Jarrett Krozocska's Hey, Kiddo.

### Writing and producing

Lamia is also a writer and producer of television and films. After selling her first feature script, All About Me, to New Line Cinema in 2006, she joined the writing staff of The CW's 90210. After 90210, Lamia went on to write, produce, and act in Awkward.
She began writing and producing the dramedy No Tomorrow in 2016. In 2017, she began writing and co-executive producing the crime comedy-drama Good Girls for NBC.
In December 2019, it was announced that she would write and executive produce an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel The Perfect Couple, for the Fox network.
In April 2021, production began on the feature film My Best Friend's Exorcism, which Lamia adapted from the 2016 novel by Grady Hendrix.
In September 2024, Netflix released all six episodes of the limited series The Perfect Couple, which Lamia wrote and executive produced. The series is an adaptation of The New York Times bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand, and stars Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Billy Howle, Meghann Fahy, Ishaan Khatter, Donna-Lynn Champlin and Michael Beech. The Perfect Couple was the most-watched American debut series on Netflix in all of 2024, and the second most-watched debut series worldwide.

## Filmography
### Acting

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | Hi-Life | Girl Teen | |
| 1999 | Strangers With Candy | Poppy Downes | Episode: "Old Habits - New Beginnings" |
| 1999 | The Guiding Light | Ali | |
| 1999 | FANatic | Announcer (all episodes) | |
| 2000 | Brutally Normal | Ali | Episode: "Damaged Goods" |
| 2000 | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Siobhan Miller | Episode: "Taken" |
| 2001 | Corkscrew Hill | Paddy McMooney | |
| 2000–2002 | Oz | Carrie Schillinger | 8 episodes |
| 2003 | Happy End | Sparkle | |
| 2004 | Without a Trace | Alice Blossom | Episode: "Hawks and Handsaws" |
| 2004 | NYPD Blue | Gina Bell | Episode: "Old Yeller" |
| 2004 | The Jury | Christine Britton | |
| 2008 | Something's Wrong in Kansas | Shelby | |
| 2009 | The Box | Diane Carnes | |
| 2010 | The Fighter | Sherri Ward | |
| 2012 | The Polar Bears | Polar Girl 1 | |
| 2013 | The Call | Brooke | |
| 2013–2016 | Awkward. | Lesley Miller | 10 episodes |
| 2016 | Family Guy | Mrs. Wong | Episode: "The Boys In The Band" |
| 2018 | Dirty John | Laurel | Episode: "One Shoe" |
| 2019 | Legend Quest: Masters of Myth | Marcella | |
| 2021–Present | Resident Alien | Judy Cooper | |
| 2021 | Small Engine Repair | Patty Swaino | |

### Writing
#### Television

| Year | Work | Role |
| 2010 | 90210 | Writer, "They're Playing Her Song", First Aired Nov. 15, 2010 |
| 2011 | 90210 | Writer, "Women on The Verge", First Aired May 2, 2011 |
| 2011 | 90210 | Writer, "Let The Games Begin", First Aired October 4, 2011 |
| 2012 | 90210 | Writer, "Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?", First Aired January 17, 2012 |
| 2012 | 90210 | Writer, "A Tale of Two Parties", First Aired May 8, 2012 |
| 2012-2013 | 90210 | Executive Story Editor |
| 2014 | Awkward. | Writer, "Touched By An Angel", First Aired April 29, 2014 |
| 2014 | Awkward. | Writer, "Girl Rules" |
| 2015 | Awkward. | Writer, "Say Yes To The Dress", First aired October 26, 2015 |
| 2015 | Awkward. | Writer, "Reality Does Not Bite", First Aired November 2, 2015 |
| 2016 | No Tomorrow | Writer, "No Holds Barred", First aired October 25, 2016 |
| 2018 | Good Girls | Writer, episode #3: "Borderline", First aired March 12, 2018 |
| 2019 | Good Girls | Writer, episode #14: "Pick Your Poison", First aired March 24, 2019 |
| 2019 | Good Girls | Writer, episode #21: "Hunting Season", First aired May 12, 2019 |
| 2019 | Good Girls | Writer (with Mark Wilding), episode #22: "Jeff", First aired May 19, 2019 |
| 2021 | Good Girls | Writer, episode #44: "Strong Hearts Strong Sales" |
| 2022 | Resident Alien | Writer, episode #3: "Girls' Night", First aired February 9, 2022 |
| 2022 | Resident Alien | Writer, episode #13: "Harry, A Parent", First aired September 7, 2022 |
| 2024 | The Perfect Couple | Writer/Executive Producer |

#### Film

| Year | Work | Role |
| 2022 | My Best Friend's Exorcism | Screenwriter |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 2003 | Audie Award | The Secret Life of Bees | Nominated |
| 2010 | Audie Award for best solo narration | The Chosen One | Won |
| 2011 | MTV Movie Award for Best Fight | The Fighter | Nominated |
| 2020 | Audie Award for best young adult recording. Full cast. | Hey, Kiddo | Won |