Christa Brittany Allen is an American actress best known for her role as the younger Jenna Rink in the 2004 movie 13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30 is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. It has a similar premise to the classic short story Rip Van Winkle, in which a young person falls asleep and wakes up many years later as an older person...

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Life and career

Allen was born in Wildomar, California

Wildomar, California

Wildomar is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. It was incorporated on July 1, 2008. The city is located in a fast-growing area...

. She is the youngest of five siblings, with four elder brothers as well as four elder stepbrothers. Before her role as Jenna in 13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30 is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. It has a similar premise to the classic short story Rip Van Winkle, in which a young person falls asleep and wakes up many years later as an older person...

, Allen had done a short appearance on The Man Show

The Man Show

The Man Show is an American comedy television show on Comedy Central. It was created in 1999 by its two original co-hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla, and their executive producer Daniel Kellison.-Format:...

, several students films, and several commercials. She starred as the titular character in the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 Saturday morning TV series Cake

Cake (TV series)

Cake is a sitcom and How-to television series that originally aired on the KOL's Secret Slumber Party and KEWLopolis lineup on CBS. The show was broadcast from September 16, 2006 to December 9, 2006 in its first run and was broadcast from December 16, 2006 to September 12, 2009 in reruns only...

. She also played a teenage version of Jenny, another Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Anne Affleck , better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006...

 character, in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
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Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	13 Going on 30 13 Going on 30 13 Going on 30 is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. It has a similar premise to the classic short story Rip Van Winkle, in which a young person falls asleep and wakes up many years later as an older person...	Young Jenna Rink
2004	Chocolate Girls	Barbara	Short film
2004	Seen		Short film
2006	Medium Medium (TV series) Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...	Maura Walker	Episode: "Blood Relation"
2006		Holly
2006	Cake Cake (TV series) Cake is a sitcom and How-to television series that originally aired on the KOL's Secret Slumber Party and KEWLopolis lineup on CBS. The show was broadcast from September 16, 2006 to December 9, 2006 in its first run and was broadcast from December 16, 2006 to September 12, 2009 in reruns only...	Cake	13 episodes
2007	Cory in the House Cory in the House Cory in the House is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007 to September 12, 2008 and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San Francisco, California to Washington, D.C., after Victor...	Cheyenne	Episode: "The Kung Fu Kats Kid"
2008		Violet Berg	Episode: "The Kidney of the Sea"
2008	Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...	Holly Anderson	Episode: "All by Myself All By Myself (Grey's Anatomy) "All By Myself" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of the ABC series, Grey's Anatomy. It aired on December 4, 2008.-Episode Summary:... "
2009	ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...	Jody Nugent	Episode: "Love Is a Battlefield"
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...	Matty Moore	Episode: "Miscarriage of Justice Miscarriage of justice A miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. The term can also apply to errors in the other direction—"errors of impunity", and to civil cases. Most criminal justice systems have some means to overturn, or "quash", a wrongful... "
2009	Chasing a Dream Chasing a Dream Chasing a Dream is a made-for-television movie. Filmed in the Ventura County area of California, the movie premiered on Hallmark Channel on April 25, 2009, and stars Andrew Lawrence and Treat Williams.-Plot:...	Nikol Schrunk	TV movie
2009	Wizards of Waverly Place Wizards of Waverly Place Wizards of Waverly Place is a Disney Channel Original Series that premiered on October 12, 2007. It won "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009...	Daphne	Episode: "Family Game Night"
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Teenage Jenny
2009	Youth in Revolt	Teenage Girl
2010	One Wish	Molly
2010	Cold Case	Annabelle Bennet	Episode: "Free Love"
2011	One Kine Day	Alea
2011	Deadly Sibling Rivalry	Fiona	TV movie
2011	Revenge Revenge (TV series) Revenge is an American television drama inspired by the Alexandre Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp. It debuted on ABC on September 21, 2011, and currently airs on Wednesday nights at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central...	Charlotte Grayson	TV series
2012	Detention of the Dead Detention of the Dead Detention of the Dead is an upcoming zombie comedy-horror film written and directed by Alex Craig Mann based upon the Rob Rinow stage play of the same name...	Janet	Post-production

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