Jenna Noelle Ushkowitz is a Korean actress born on April 28, 1986 in Seoul, South Korea.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3206118/ She was adopted at the age of three months by her father who is part Polish and part Italian and her mother who is part Irish and part English.

Ushkowitz was introduced to musical theater in high school through dance class and choir. In addition to plays and musicals, she was also a part of the student council. Her parents felt that she had an outgoing personality, which they maintain led them to have her audition her for various advertisements while she was young. When Jenna was nine years old, she was cast in a version of The King and I'.http://iamkoream.com/jenna-ushkowitz/

Jenna started her acting career at a very young age with advertisements and theater. She was featured on the front of the Alphabets Cereal box, as well as in commercials for Jell-O and Burger King.http://www.tv.com/jenna-ushkowitz/person/639835/trivia.html She also made a variety of short appearances on television shows as a child, including Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow.

Jenna has been working with the Yes! Network since 2006, hosting a Yankees television show aimed towards a younger audience called Yankees on Deck. She has also appeared as herself on a number of different talk shows and awards ceremonies. Some of the shows she has been featured on include Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.http://www.tonylovers.com/page.php?page=24&performer=177

She is featured on FOX's musical comedy, Glee as Tina Cohen-Chang. Tina is a shy character with a stutter, who enjoys metal music and being around her speech therapist, Judy. She later went on to reveal that her disability was not real, and she had only been pretending to stutter since using it as an excuse to get out of an oral report.http://www.fox.com/glee/bios/jenna-ushkowitz/

• 2009: Glee as Tina Cohen-Chang (Television)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/

• 2009: Entertainment Tonight as herself (Television)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081857/fullcredits#cast

• 2001: Educated as Wendy (Short)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404010/

"I have to say, as a theatre trained actor, there is nothing like Broadway/live theatre. I love the instant response and energy from the audience." - Jenna Ushkowitz

"New York will always be home for me and I love the city more than anything, I'll always have a special place for NY in my heart and I find myself traveling back to NY whenever I can to visit family and friends and just be with the energy the city brings!" - Jenna Ushkowitz

"I'd have to say acting wise some of my favorites are: Kate Winslet, Sandra Oh, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp. They are all so versatile." - Jenna Ushkowitz