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Jennifer Anne Busch (born May 30th,1973), credited as Jenna Busch is an American entertainment journalist, comic book author, host and online geek personality. She's known for her work on sites like IGN, Huffington Post, Coming Soon, JoBlo, SheKnows, Collider and Stan Lee's World of Heroes, hosting Moviefone Minute for AOL and co-hosting a weekly interview show with comic book legend Stan Lee. She is currently the co-host of the weekly entertainment web series Most Craved. Jenna frequently speaks at conventions and appeared on NPR, Al Jazeera America, The Young Turks Network, G4's Attack of the Show and Seasons 1 and 3 of Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day's Tabletop. Jenna is the creator of Legion of Leia, a web site and initiative to promote women in sci-fi. She recently contributed a chapter and sidebars to the book "Star Wars Psychology."

Personal Life
Jenna was born in Mineola, NY to Shirley Knight Busch and John Busch and spent her early years in Greenlawn, NY. She has a younger sister Christina Busch Cleary who runs an early childhood care center in Boston, MA. She started her life as a Star Wars fan and a huge reader of fantasy and science fiction. She lived on Long Island with her family until attending Syracuse University, moved to Astoria Queens after graduation, and then Los Angeles in 2004. She is currently dating actor/musician/storyboard artist and writer Jeffrey Henderson.

Career
Jenna began her creative life as a stage actress, majoring in musical theater at Syracuse University. Jenna performed roles like Eva Peron in Evita, Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar and Peggy in 42nd Street. She spent months at a time on international tours, and finally left the profession in 2001.

She moved into a career as a makeup artist, becoming both the National and Global artist for cosmetics lines like Delux Beauty and Too Faced, appearing on both QVC and The Shopping Channel as well as running a successful beauty blog on SheKnows.com. She was the key makeup artist on Never Sleep Again: The Nightmare on Elm Street Story as well as doing makeup for the Scream: The Inside Story and Do Not Disturb.

She began working as an entertainment journalist for UGO.com in 2007, covering film, TV, video games and comics, doing on camera hosting as well as reviews and features. She became known for her vast knowledge of the geek world as well as for asking celebrities her company question, "Who would win in a fight: a minotaur with a trident or a centaur with a crossbow?"

After UGO, she wrote and hosted for sites like IGN, Huffington Post, SciFiWire, Coming Soon, JoBlo and more. She hosted, wrote and produced a daily show for AOL called Moviefone Minute as well as doing a daily CBS Radio national spot. She also co-hosted the web show Inside Horror and done various voice overs for My Little Pony DVDs. She became a member of the Broadcast Film Critics' Association and a board member of the Broadcast Television Journalists' Association. She hosted various top-rated shows on AfterBuzz TV as well as appearing on podcasts all over the world.

She has appeared on G4's Attack of the Show multiple times, co-hosted and guest hosted for Blair Butler on G4's Fresh Ink Online and the premiere episode of Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day's Tabletop along with Wheaton, Sean Plott and Grant Imahara, and in Season 3 with Wheaton, Satine Phoenix and astronaut Richard Garriott. She's also appeared on Bonnie Burton's Geek DIY and Jace Hall's Fan Wars.

Jenna co-hosted Cocktails With Stan, a weekly interview show with comic book legend Stan Lee, where the two interviewed celebrities like Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day, Marc Webb, Jane Espenson and Joe Manganiello. She also co-hosts a weekly entertainment web series for CraveOnline called Most Craved.

Jenna entered the comic book industry with two pieces in the comic book anthology Womanthology, one written by herself with art by Elisa Feliz and one co-written with Rachel Pandich with art by Eisner award-winner Janet Lee. They have a full-length version of the later coming out in the near future. In 2013 it was announced that she'd be writing the graphic novel prequels to The Pretender TV show after creators Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle rebooted the series with a series of novels. A ten-page prequel was released on ThePretenderLives.com with art by Jeffrey Henderson.

Jenna speaks and moderates at cons and festivals around the country including San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con, WonderCon, various Wizard World conventions, DragonCon and the Atlanta TV Festival. She has appeared in the Women of Geekdom calendar, the 2014 Celebrity Geek Calendar to benefit homeless pets and multiple issues of the pinup magazine Cupcake Quarterly's geek and non-geek issues. She also presents at multiple award shows including The Geekies. She was nominated for a Geekie for Best Online Personality in 2014.

As one of the earliest female reporters covering the geek beat, Jenna has always been an advocate for women in the entertainment industry. She has spent time mentoring young writers and working to promote women in the geek world. To this end, she recently started an online initiative called Legion of Leia. It began because of the lack of women in the new Star Wars film, but morphed into a place to support women in the sci-fi world. In an interview with the Toledo Free Press, Jenna explained that, while at the San Diego Comic Con, a little girl asked if she was part of Womanthology and upon hearing a yes, asked if she could hug Jenna. Her mother explained that "she didn't know girls could do that." Jenna felt that there are so many wonderful women working in all sides of the entertainment industry, that it was important for young women to hear their names and their stories.