- Born
- Birth nameJennifer Lynn Siebel
- Nickname
- Jen
- Height5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the First Partner of California, is a filmmaker, advocate, and thought leader. After graduating with honors from Stanford University and Stanford's Graduate School of Business, she wrote, directed, and produced the 2011 award-winning documentary Miss Representation (2011). Miss Representation made its national broadcast debut on OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network on October 20th, 2011. As a result of Miss Representation's impact, she launched The Representation Project, a nonprofit organization that uses film and media as a catalyst for cultural transformation. Siebel Newsom is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Club Entertainment, LLC, a film production company established to develop independent films focused primarily on empowering women. Her second film as a director, The Mask You Live In (2015), premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and explores how America's narrow definition of masculinity is harming boys, men, and society at large. Her third film, The Great American Lie (2020), explores the underlying cultural causes of inequality in America. She also executive produced the Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War (2012) and was an executive producer on the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Hunting Ground (2015). She has also served as a global advisory board member of the Dove Self Esteem Project, a co-chair of We Day California, a commissioner on the Girl Scouts' Healthy Media Commission, and currently serves on the advisory council for the Imagine Kids Bus Project. As an actress, Newsom appeared in numerous films and television shows including In the Valley of Elah (2007), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Rent (2005), Life (2007), Mad Men (2007), The Nanny Express (2008), Trauma (2009), and Numb3rs (2005). She lives in Sacramento, California with her husband, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and their four young children. Current as of June 2019- IMDb Mini Biography By: Girls Club Entertainment
- SpouseGavin Newsom(July 26, 2008 - present) (4 children)
- Starter on the Women's Jr. National Soccer Team '91-'93.
- Kappa Kappa Gamma at Stanford.
- Speaks fluent Spanish. Has affinity for languages and dialects.
- Chased on foot by a crocodile, lion and elephant while living in Botswana.
- Played Varsity Soccer at Stanford prior to a back and neck injury.
- I was drawn to the performing arts out of a desire to connect emotionally and on a deeper level with our humanity... I love history and I love exploring a character's psyche and background and finding out what inspires them.
- Life is precious. Since we get to live life out loud, shouldn't we make the most of it?
- [on discovering the 15 per cent of rape victims are girls under 12] When I found that out, I had to take action. How can we walk around thinking we live in a healthy society when this is how society looks at a young girl? We are sexualizing children. We are sexualizing our daughters, and I have to say I really don't know why.
- I know from experience that as an actor it's all about the way you look. There is nothing else that really matters. Talent counts, but they see it as secondary to the way a woman looks. And she has to be sexy, and she has to be accessible. If she won't work as eye-candy, she won't work.
- Only three per cent of executive decision makers in the media are women. Three per cent - out of the thousands of women who work in your industry - only three per cent have any power to change things. If you want to look at why women are so misrepresented, that's where you start.
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