Jenny McManus

Acting

Jenny McManus

Jenny McManus is an American actress known for her background performances in film, television and stage. Her first role was in the film Dark Waters (2019), followed by films including Wrong Turn (2021), Bones and All (2022), The Bikeriders (2023), and Nutcrackers (2024). She has also applied her acting experience as a stand-in on Alto Knights (2025). Jenny has also appeared on multiple television episodes of Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD, as well as the streaming docudrama The Big Conn (2022). Her on-stage work with the Cincinnati Opera includes as a supernumerary in Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio (2024) and as a lightwalker for Marriage of Figaro (2019).

Acting credits

Dark Waters poster
7.5

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

Dark Waters

2019

Bones and All poster
7.0

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Bones and All

2022

Wrong Turn poster
6.0

Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

Wrong Turn

2021

The Bikeriders poster
6.7

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

The Bikeriders

2024

Hillbilly Elegy poster
6.7

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

Nutcrackers poster
5.8

Just as Mike is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home.

Nutcrackers

2024

Turtles All the Way Down poster
7.2

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.

Turtles All the Way Down

2024

Hard Kill poster
4.9

The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just to get it.

Hard Kill

2020

The Mastermind poster
5.7

In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.

The Mastermind

2025

Shirley poster
6.6

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Shirley

2024

Monica poster
5.6

After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.

Monica

2023

Dandelion poster
4.4

It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.

Dandelion

2024

Santa's Promise poster
5.5

Nick's rich Uncle makes a deathbed request: "Give away my fortune and help me save my soul." But the minute he starts, it all goes haywire. His evil twin steals his fiancé, and giving away the cash backfires. Now he's falling for his uncle's secretary. Nick's no saint, but will he keep Santa's Promise and win the girl?

Santa's Promise

2020

The Pope Drops In poster
6.0

What would you do if your business partner stole your business and your wife, and then told you he wouldn’t become a Christian unless the Pope showed up at his house and asked him? You kidnap the Pope and take him on a road trip to end all road trips, to save him and your wife.

The Pope Drops In

2022