She was one of the biggest sitcom stars of the 1990s, see her now at 54 ⁠35%

By Ashleigh Gray⁠0%

5/14/2026, 3:40:32 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Recency Bias, and Framing Effect, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 34.5% saturation with 138 hits. Analysis detected 637 faulty-reasoning hits from 400 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠35% (13,935 of 21,194 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 65.70% of the article peer group.

She was a blonde bombshell who started out as a dancer and toured with ZZ Top in 1994 as a 'Legs Girl.' 
She went on to be cast in small roles on hit TV shows, including NYPD Blue and Roseanne, before making it big as the star of her own ABC sitcom. 
The show, which co-starred Thomas Gibson, ran from 1997 to 2002 and won her a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV series musical or comedy and three Primetime Lead Actress Emmy nominations. 
She also had a starring role in the 1997 Ron Howard comedy EDtv alongside Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Ellen DeGeneres 
Now 54, she is about to return to the small screen in the upcoming Fox drama The Interrogator opposite British actor Stephen Fry. 
Can you guess who she is? 
It's Jenna Elfman! 
She was 26 when she got her big break in Hollywood. 
She was cast as the lead opposite Thomas Gibson in the TV series Dharma and Greg, about a couple who got married on their first date despite being polar opposites. 
The sitcom was a hit straight out of the gate and ran for five seasons. 
Elfman and Gibson went on to reprise their Dharma and Greg roles as cameos in three episodes of the Charlie Sheen sitcom Two and a Half Men. 
In 1995, Elfman married actor Bodhi Elfman, a devout Scientologist, and she later converted to Scientology. 
The couple have two children. 
For her Fox Upfronts outing, the actress opted for a textured mauve pantsuit paired with nude sandal heels. 
She complemented the sleek ensemble with an understated gold necklace. 
Her now darker blonde shoulder-length hair was parted down the middle and styled in loose ringlets. 
She shared interview outtakes on social media, including one with the caption, 'First day of press with the brilliant #StephenFry for The Interrogator on @foxtv. 
'So looking forward to diving in on this. 
We start filming S O O N.' 
Elfman's other credits include the movies Dr Doolittle with Eddie Murphy, Keeping the Faith with Ben Stiller and Ed Norton, the star-studded rom-com Town and Country and Looney Tunes: Back In Action opposite Steve Martin and Brendan Fraser. 
On the small screen, she has recently had roles on Fear the Walking Dead, Shifting Gears and Dark Winds. 
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