Mia Sinclair Jenness | |
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Born | United States | December 14, 2005
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2012–present |
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Website | www |
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 2014–15 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]
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]
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