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LOS ANGELES - Californer -- A refreshingly earnest talent, JEN PONTON will recur in Three Women for Starz, alongside Betty Gilpin and Shailene Woodley. Three women explore their true desires while struggling to emerge from a prison of expectations. A writer, grieving her own loss, persuades each of them to tell her their stories. Ponton plays 'Barbara,' subject to Shailene Woodley (Gia) and support group member with Betty Gilpin (Lina). Gia is forming women's sexuality support groups to encourage women to express their desires and their happiness, and share their dynamic, unearthing secrets and wants.
"Right after I auditioned for Three Women, I left my life as I knew it," says Ponton.
Three Women was more than just another project for Ponton. It marked a turning point, in her personal and professional life. In March 2020 just as Covid hit, Ponton found herself on the cusp of coming out, and upending her entire life and identity as a sweet Betty Crocker Stepford wife who had married her college boyfriend. She spent most of 2020 not only inside, but inside with a man who increasingly knew nothing about her.
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That is when she landed a recurring role in Three Women–a series based on the nonfiction best-seller by Lisa Taddeo. She would be one of the study subjects discovering her sexuality within the safety of Shailene Woodley's sociological biodome. There, we meet Lina –a woman atrophying inside herself, suffering from myriad somatic issues as she forces herself to shrink into a marriage that is too small for her. Three Women was the first role Ponton auditioned for after the isolation of Covid and since her sexual awakening.
Ponton was fully shaken when she discovered this story. She knew Lina; she knew what desperation would drive a woman to join a group like this, because it was the same desperation that drove her out of the closet and plummeting out of the life she had built for 20 years.
Right after she auditioned for Three Women, she separated from her husband and followed the woman she loved to the Midwest. Currently, Ponton and her partner live in New Jersey. She will be attending the show's premiere in New York on September 9th.
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Best known for her work on AMC's cult hit Dietland, Jen Ponton also guest starred on The Blacklist, 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Deadbeat, Orange is the New Black, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, and The Good Wife. She landed on the map of cinema when she starred in Ash Christian's Love on the Run alongside Frances Fisher, Annaleigh Ashford, and Steve Howey. Other film credits include Rebecca Miller's She Came to Me, and Todd Solondz's Wiener-Dog opposite Greta Gerwig and Kieran Culkin. She also starred in Tessa Slovis' deeply moving Pizza Party, based on the Larry Nassar trials, which finished its festival run at Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival.
"Right after I auditioned for Three Women, I left my life as I knew it," says Ponton.
Three Women was more than just another project for Ponton. It marked a turning point, in her personal and professional life. In March 2020 just as Covid hit, Ponton found herself on the cusp of coming out, and upending her entire life and identity as a sweet Betty Crocker Stepford wife who had married her college boyfriend. She spent most of 2020 not only inside, but inside with a man who increasingly knew nothing about her.
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That is when she landed a recurring role in Three Women–a series based on the nonfiction best-seller by Lisa Taddeo. She would be one of the study subjects discovering her sexuality within the safety of Shailene Woodley's sociological biodome. There, we meet Lina –a woman atrophying inside herself, suffering from myriad somatic issues as she forces herself to shrink into a marriage that is too small for her. Three Women was the first role Ponton auditioned for after the isolation of Covid and since her sexual awakening.
Ponton was fully shaken when she discovered this story. She knew Lina; she knew what desperation would drive a woman to join a group like this, because it was the same desperation that drove her out of the closet and plummeting out of the life she had built for 20 years.
Right after she auditioned for Three Women, she separated from her husband and followed the woman she loved to the Midwest. Currently, Ponton and her partner live in New Jersey. She will be attending the show's premiere in New York on September 9th.
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Best known for her work on AMC's cult hit Dietland, Jen Ponton also guest starred on The Blacklist, 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Deadbeat, Orange is the New Black, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, and The Good Wife. She landed on the map of cinema when she starred in Ash Christian's Love on the Run alongside Frances Fisher, Annaleigh Ashford, and Steve Howey. Other film credits include Rebecca Miller's She Came to Me, and Todd Solondz's Wiener-Dog opposite Greta Gerwig and Kieran Culkin. She also starred in Tessa Slovis' deeply moving Pizza Party, based on the Larry Nassar trials, which finished its festival run at Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival.
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