She had a dazzling career in her teens and twenties as she landed hit film after hit film.
Jena Malone got an early start in high-profile films from the 1990s including Contact, Stepmom and the cult classic Donnie Darko.
She then worked with director Zack Snyder on Sucker Punch and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.
One of her most high-profile roles was in Hunger Games: Catching Fire opposite Jennifer Lawrence.
Her last big gig was a starring role in Kevin Costner’s Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga.
Now the star has at age 41 posed nude in a bathtub for the company Partlow, which is co-founded by celebrity stylist Lawren Sample.
She also told the site that she will marry fiancé Jack Buckley in November, and she will be studying to become a family therapist.
Jena Malone got an early start in high-profile films from the 1990s including Contact, Stepmom and the cult classic Donnie Darko. Seen in 2000
Partlow is launching a Muse series on their website and social media, where they interview various celebs and influencers. The first one features Malone.
In a candid conversation with Sample, Malone revealed that she’s considering a major career shift by going back to school to study psychology.
‘I’m gonna be a family therapist. I want to work with kids,’ she said.
She also talked about eventually creating programming for teenagers that combines somatic/embodiment work with talk therapy. She said she thinks ‘how hard it is to be young’ is a huge issue right now.
Malone also announced she will wed in November after she shared in February that Buckley had proposed.
In their joint Instagram post, the couple shared a series of photos of them after hiking to the top of a mountain where Buckley had popped the question with a scenic view in the background.
Malone worked with Julia Roberts in the 1998 movie Stepmom
Malone, Roberts, Ed Harris, Susan Sarandon and Liam Aiken at the Stepmom premiere
‘It was always you,’ Malone wrote in a lengthy, poetic caption about their connection alongside photos from their romantic countryside getaway.
‘Even in those long, dark spaces of my youth Where I learned to hold my own heart You were always there Breathing life into these tiny glimmers of a child’s heart….Love….. Soulmate……Marriage.
‘You are a dream come true Jack,’ she wrote before adding that her ‘soulmate asked me to marry him.’
The star — who opened up about coming out as pansexual in 2022 — also shared the story about how he went to each of her family members for their approval before proposing.
She portrayed the fiery Johanna Mason from District 7 in Catching Fire and both the first and second parts of the Mockingjay movies; pictured in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2013
With Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in 2015
At The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 premiere in London in 2014
‘First, he asked those who have protected and cared for my heart for so long,’ she shared.
‘Both of my Moms, my Sister, my Son … and with every lifetime, every moment I have in front of me I said yes. @jacktbuckley I love you forever!!!’
Their carousel post showed photos of them beaming alongside each other at the top of a lookout point as well as the pair celebrating with champagne after their hike.
Malone is best known for starring alongside Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games series.
She portrayed the fiery, red-headed bombshell Johanna Mason from District 7 in Catching Fire and both the first and second parts of the Mockingjay movies.
She and fellow actor Jack Buckley shared a joint Instagram post with photos of their idyllic countryside getaway where he popped the question
Now the star, who is 41, has posed nude in a bathtub for the company Partlow, which is co-founded by celebrity stylist Lawren Sample
Buckley is also a fellow actor and has appeared in episodes of The Dropout and The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Malone is a mother to nine-year-old son Ode Mountain with her ex Ethan DeLorenzo.
The couple keep a relatively low-key profile, so it is not yet known when they met or how long they have been together.
Malone, who began her career as a child actress in the mid-1990s, had a troubled early career that saw her win emancipation from her mother when she was just 15 after claiming that the money she earned from acting had been mismanaged.
