Elfman was born like Jennifer Mary Butala in the city of Los Angeles in the State of California. She is the youngest of the three children and she was born to Sue Butala, who is a homemaker and to Richard Butala who is executive at Hughes Aircraft. The young brother to his father is Tony Butala who was the lead singer in 1958 for the American Vocal trio called the Letterman. She was born in Croatian ancestry at the side of her father and he was raised as a Roman Catholic.

She took the ballet classes when she was five, when she was nine years old, she suffered ankle injury and at 12 years, her tendon came off her bone. Even if she continued to dance afterwards, she decided to shift the focus to the acting. Elfman went to the high school in Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and attended the college for California State University of Northridge.

From her biography, Jenna Elfman began a professional career like a dancer and she appeared in the music video for the Depeche Mode, “Halo” in the year 1990, in the Anthrax of Black Lodge for 1993 and in Somebody’s Crying of Chris Isaak. He toured the rock band ZZ top at the 1994 tour when she was Legs Girl. After appearing in the television commercials, Jenna Elfman was the cast in the short lived 1996 for American Sitcom that was entitled Townies at the ABC. She was in successful comedy series called King of Queens and Two and Half man. In the year 1997, she was the cast for Dharma & Greg at the ABC. She was Dharma Freedom Finkelstein Montgomery. The show was viewed for five seasons up to the time that it was canceled in the year 2002.

Jenna Elfman is married to bodhi elfman and together with her husband, they begun the podcast called Kicking and Screaming by Jenna and Bodhi Elfman. In the year 2013, she appeared in the NBC comedy series called Growing Up Fisher and 1600 Penn. They were both canceled after one single season. Jenna Elfman met with her husband Bodhi Elfman at the Sprite Commercial audition in 1991. They got married in 1995. This makes the director Richard Elfman to be Jenna Elfman ‘s father’s in law and Danny Elfman to be her uncle in law. Jenna Elfman has cut her shoulder length hair into a pixie cut. She is a member of Church of scientology and her net worth is 16 million dollars.