Jenna Elfman at 50: 'I Feel Younger Than I've Ever Been'
glamour.comFear the Walking Dead, where she had been starring as June Dorie since 2018. “I had been commuting and then when the pandemic hit, I started homeschooling my kids [on top of that], which just became a lot,” Elfman says. “We thought, Let's just try and simplify things.
So we moved to Austin, and it was much easier.” And then, plot twist: Production for season eight of the horror thriller is moving to Savannah, Georgia—a good 1100 miles away. (Season seven just premiered in early June 2022.) “So I have to start commuting again," Elfman says with a bit of an exasperated laugh. “We're just taking one year at a time and seeing where the adventure of life takes us.
We're happy in Austin and the boys love it, so for now we're there.”That easy-going mindset has served Elfman well since she started working regularly in the mid '90s.
Bit parts on Roseanne and NYPD Blue, plus a series regular role on the short-lived ABC sitcom Townies (opposite Lauren Graham and Molly Ringwald) led to her breakout and Emmy-nominated role as the free-spirited Dharma Freedom Finkelstein Montgomery opposite Thomas Gibson on Dharma & Greg.
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