Mia Sinclair Jenness

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Mia Sinclair Jenness
Mia Sinclair Jenness for Make It Fair.jpg
Jenness in 2015
Born (2005-12-14) December 14, 2005 (age 18)
OccupationActress
Years active2012present
Mother Emily Bauer
Website www.miasinclairjenness.com

Mia Sinclair Jenness [1] (born December 14, 2005) [2] [1] is an American teen theater actress. She was one of three girls who rotated as the star title character on the US tour for Matilda the Musical . [3] In the off-Broadway play Mary Page Marlowe , she portrays the 12-year-old version of Mary. [4] In 2018, she voiced the title character Nancy Clancy on Disney Junior's animated television series Fancy Nancy . [5] She also had an ensemble and understudy role on the 201415 Broadway production of Les Miserables . [6] She portrayed Lily Nill in the pilot episode for the TV series Panic . [7] [8] She voices young Powder in the Netflix League of Legends -based series Arcane . [9]

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Early life

Jenness grew up in Millburn, New Jersey and is the daughter of actress Emily Bauer. [10] In 2012, at age six, she participated in the play And a Child Shall Lead, which is about the Terezin concentration camp. [11] Her brother, Brady Jenness, is also an actor. [12]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011 A Letter to Momo Umi (English version, voice)
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 Additional Voices
2016 Under the Shadow Dorsa (English version, voice)
2020 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up Wallace
2021 Child of Kamiari Month Kanna (English version, voice)
2022 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Molly Klock

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 Celebrity Ghost Stories KadySeason 4 Episode 4
2017 Orange Is the New Black Young FriedaSeason 5 Episode 2
Welcome to the Wayne Pracky Singer (singing voice)Season 1 Episode 3
Sesame Street Twinkle Twinkle Little ElmoSeason 47 Episode 6
2018 Blue Bloods Emily BennettSeason 8 Episode 19
Raven's Home LeslieSeason 2 Episodes 12 and 13
2019 Better Things Young SamSeason 3 Episode 10
2018-2022 Fancy Nancy Nancy Clancy
2021 - 2024 Arcane Powder (voice)

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