Jennifer Mary Elfman (nee Butala born in 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma in the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997-2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for a TV Series Musical or Comedy in 1999, and three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in the field of a Comedy Series. After making her film debut with Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) She has also been seen in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Dr. Dolittle (1998), EDtv (1999), Keeping the Faith (2000), Town & Country (2001), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), and Big Stone Gap (2014).Elfman has also played lead roles in other TV comedies, including Courting Alex (2006), Accidentally on Purpose (2009-2010), 1600 Penn (2012-2013) as well as Growing Up Fisher (2014), and Imaginary Mary (2017). She also had a recurring part on the FX legal drama Damages in 2012, and has been a series regular on the AMC Fear the Walking Dead since 2018. Fear the Walking Dead since 2018Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, California. She was the eldest of three children born to Sue Butala (nee Grace) mother of three, and Richard Butala. Richard Butala is a Hughes Aircraft executive. [citation neededIt is believed that Tony Butala is her paternal uncle, and the main singer of The Lettermen in America since 1958. She has Croatian roots on her father's side [5]. She was educated as a Roman Catholic.
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