---
name: "Jana Allen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jana-allen"
fi1m_id: "jana-allen"
imdb_id: "nm2998299"
tmdb_id: 1689241
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T16:06:51.618147+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jana Allen

## Identity

Jana Allen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jana-allen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jana-allen
- **IMDb ID:** nm2998299
- **TMDB ID:** 1689241
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2998299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1689241

Actor. Born in Southwest Virginia.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2998299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1689241

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Fear Street: 1994*](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jana Allen is an American actress. She grew up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and attended the William Esper Studio in Manhattan while beginning her professional acting career. She holds a B.S. in video broadcasting from Liberty University and previously worked as a radio host and television reporter.

Allen is known for roles including TV Reporter #1 in *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), Reporter 1 in *The Taking of Deborah Logan* (2014), Heidi Shumway in *Manhunt* (2017), Reporter Dean Delaney in *Mr. Mercedes* (2017), Barb in *Creepshow* (2019), and Kelly Seasons in *The Righteous Gemstones* (2019). She has also appeared in *The Shunning* (2011) as Amanda and *Genius* (2017) as Second Journalist.

Her mother, Cherie Davis Allen, was Miss Virginia in 1968. Her father, Ray Allen, is an award-winning poet and founder of the non-profit Appalfolks of America. Allen is an honorary board member and spokesperson for the organisation, and became an official member of The Virginia Opry in 2019. She is a Marine Corps spouse.

*Sources: imdb.com, virginianreview.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), Fi1m 74, as TV Reporter #1 — [page](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Sins Beneath* (2025), as Marie
- *Remember Yesterday* (2022), as Jenny Hill-Devlin
- *Welcome to Flatch* (2022), series, as Parishioner
- *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), as TV Reporter #1 — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md)
- *Creepshow* (2019), series, as Barb
- *The Righteous Gemstones* (2019), series, as Kelly Seasons
- *Mr. Mercedes* (2017), series, as Reporter Dean Delaney
- *Manhunt* (2017), series, as Heidi Shumway
- *Genius* (2017), series, as Second Journalist
- *The Hollow* (2016), as Jenna Killinger
- *The Taking of Deborah Logan* (2014), as Reporter 1
- *The Shunning* (2011), as Amanda
- *Mercy*, as Kailey · Producer

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