By Penny Bancroft
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jena Laine Malone (/ˈdʒɛnə məˈloʊn/; born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. Born in Sparks, Nevada, Malone spent her early life there and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions. Inspired to become an actress herself, Malone convinced her mother to relocate to Los Angeles. After a series of auditions, Malone was cast in the television film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), for which she received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and the television film Hope (1997), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She next appeared in the feature films Contact (1997) and Stepmom (1998), winning a Saturn Award for the former.
Malone began the 2000s with the independent psychological thriller Donnie Darko (2001), which became a cult film. She next appeared in the drama film Life as a House and the miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil (both 2003), and the dark comedy film Saved! (2004), and established herself as an adult with the historical drama film Pride & Prejudice (2005). She furthered this success with the drama films The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) and Into the Wild (2007), and the horror film The Ruins (2008). She made her foray into action films with Zack Snyder‘s Sucker Punch (2011), and earned her highest-grossing releases with the role of Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games film series (2013–2015) which won her a Teen Choice Award.
Malone has since appeared in the horror films The Neon Demon (2016), Antebellum (2020), Swallowed (2022) and Consecration (2023), the thriller films Nocturnal Animals (2016) and Love Lies Bleeding (2024), the drama films The Public (2018) and Lorelei (2020) which she executive produced, and the Western film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (2024). Her continued television credits include the crime dramas Too Old to Die Young (2019) and Goliath (2021).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Although this phrase originated at least as far back as the 1500s, and appeared in several works, including Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600s, it became especially popular when the concept appeared in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was published in 1865. It is now used to describe anyone behaving in an odd or foolish way. Hares tend to be unusually wild in March, during their breeding season, when they leap, box, and chase each other around the countryside during courtship. They appear mad or, in our common usage, crazy.
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Born
- Voltaire (writer) –
- William Beaumont (surgeon) –
- Sir Samuel Cunard (merchant and shipowner who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line) –
- Rene Francois-Ghislain Magritte (painter) –
- Stan Musial (baseball player) –
- Marlo Thomas (actress) –
- Goldie Hawn (actress) –
- Lorna Luft (actress & singer) –
- Nicolette Sheridan (actress) –
- Reggie Lewis (basketball player) –
- Troy Aikman (football player) –
- Ken Griffey, Jr. (baseball player) –
- Jena Malone (actress) –
Died
- Henry Purcell (composer) –
- Florence Kling Harding (U.S. First Lady) –
- Robert Benchley (humorist) –
- Bill Bixby (actor & director) –
- Quentin Crisp (writer) –
- Deborah Raffin (actress and audiobook publisher) –
- David Cassidy (singer and actor) –
Events
- The Mayflower Compact, a preliminary plan of government for the Pilgrims, was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower near what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts–
- North Carolina became the 12th state–
- HMHS Britannic sank–
- William C. Bullitt became the first U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.–
- Tweety Bird debuted–
- President Harry Truman became the second U.S. president to ride underwater in a submarine. (Theodore Roosevelt was the first.)–
- HMCS Labrador achieved the first circumnavigation of North America in a single voyage–
- Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, the the world’s longest suspension bridge, formally opened–
- 3.8 earthquake near Northglenn, Colorado–
- Deadly fire at MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada–
- After a summer of asking, Who shot J.R.?, viewers tuned in to see J.R.’s mistress, Kristin Shepard, holding the smoking gun–
- Jonathan Jay Pollard arrested for spying–
- Race car driver Jimmie Johnson set a NASCAR record by winning his fifth consecutive NASCAR championship–
Weather
- The Long Storm dropped 12 inches of snow on New York City–
- Snowflakes fell on Orlando, Florida–
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