Table of Biography
Jenn McAllister is an American YouTuber, as well as an actress, who rose to stardom with her JennXPenn YouTube channel. Jenn McAllister has portrayed the roles of Abby in Bad Night and Andie Fixler in the YouTube Red series Foursome.
Early Life and Childhood
Jenn McAllister’s age is 27 years old. She was born on July 9, 1996, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, under the astrological sign of Cancer.
She resided In her hometown till 2013 before moving to LA to explore her career further. Likewise, she lives with her best friend, Lauren Elizabeth.
She has not mentioned her parents’ names. However, as she told me, her parents are very supportive of her career.
Moving toward her educational background, she attended Council Rock High School South in Holland, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles north of Philadelphia.
Caption: Jenn McAllister in her childhood photo sitting on the lap of her mother(Source: Instagram)
Social Media
McAllister is active on different social media handles like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, YouTube, etc. On Instagram, she goes by the handle @jennxpenn with more than 1.6 million fan followers.
Likewise, she has garnered around 566k followers on her Facebook account and 1.8 million followers on Twitter. She even owns a YouTube channel with more than 3.61 million subscribers.
Personal Life
Talking about her sexual orientation, one of the media had introduced Jenn as “one of the few rare gay female YouTubers.”
However, she has not stated her sexual inclination and has never disclosed being gay. She might also be bisexual.
Caption: Jenn McAllister posing selfie with her Kelsey Bennett (Source: Instagram)
As of now, McAlliste is close to a girl named Kelsey Bennett who is often featured on her channel.
However, as she has not talked about her sexual orientation, it appears like she is not dating anyone and even her social media accounts lack the presence of any man that can be considered her boyfriend.
Moreover, she has an affable personality and a sharp sense of humor. She likes to tackle subjects on her channel that are important to teens and youngsters.
Her choice of name for the channel is super witty, combining her name and place of residence through a tiny x. Similarly, she is smart, funny, and real.
Career and Professional Life
Professionally, Jenn McAllister is an American actress and YouTuber as well. At the age of 8, she first stumbled upon her parents’ old video camera in a forgotten box.
It was an antiquated thing, but she enjoyed making random recordings and even did the editing herself in Movie Maker on her Dell laptop.
After four years, she began her own YouTube Channel. Likewise, she created that YouTube channel under the username @jennxpenn at the age of 12 on January 15, 2009.
However, she already had prior YouTube experience through a channel created previously with a friend.
She started making videos in the very initial phase of YouTube. At that time, YouTube was yet to become the go-to platform for every person of every age.
Half the surrounding Jenn hadn’t even heard of it. Even though she made an impression and her channel got off logging in quite a few subscribers in those early days.
She used to make cute music videos and silly skits. In 2009, she joined the group MyCollab, founded by supermac18.
In the following channel, she featured alongside other successful YouTube contemporaries like Jonah Green (mutant boyfriend).
The channel was enormously successful and even she amassed a lot of followers. Unfortunately, the channel was terminated due to a conflict between members.
YouTube
Currently, McAllister owns two YouTube channels; her main channel, Jenn McAllister, and her vlogging channel, Jenn.
As of July 2020, her main YouTube channel has successfully garnered more than 3.61 million subscribers with almost 368 million total views.
The new video on the channel is uploaded every Saturday at 11 AM PST. Her content differs within videos which are fun-loving and interesting to watch.
Her secondary YouTube channel has over 343k subscribers but as of now there is content available and so far, she has stopped posting on her vlogging YouTube channel.
It is a personal vlog channel while she deleted the YouTube channel jennxpenngames featured her gaming prowess.
In March 2013, she signed a contract for a YouTube partnership deal with AwesomenessTV. Shortly after, in July 2013, she moved from her home in Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California.
On April 30, 2014, her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers, followed by a 16-city North American tour in celebration of the completion with fellow YouTuber Tyler Ward, taking place at the beginning of May and the entirety of June.
In June 2014, she signed a YouTube management deal with Fullscreen.
Caption: Jenn McAllister on one of the YouTube videos (Source: YouTube)
Acting
In 2015, Mcallister made her debut in acting along with fellow YouTube star, Luren Elizabeth with the GRB Entertainment production ‘Bad Night.’
From early 2016 to 2018, she played regularly in the Original Series ‘Foursome’ with fellow YouTubers including Meghan Falcone and Logan Paul.
The series tells the adventures of Andy (played by Jenn) while she seeks to avoid her older brother Alec’s efforts to diminish her dating life.
The following show is presented by AwesomenessTV and is distributed through YouTube Red, the platform’s paid services.
Similarly, in 2017, she appeared in the film role of Gabby in Guardians of Oz. Since 2018, she has been portraying the role of Deanna in the Hulu series All Night.
Furthermore, she has also appeared in one episode of Sleep Tight portraying Emily.
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In September 2014, she made a partnership with the nonprofit organization Our Time, releasing a video telling her viewers aged eighteen or above to register themselves to vote in the United States.
On March 28, 2015, she announced her autobiography. The book was titled Professional Internet Person on August 25, 2015.
Awards and Nominations
This beautiful talented actress Jenn McAllister has earned five nominations and one award for her contribution to the entertainment industry.
Likewise, she was nominated for both Choice Web Star: Comedy, Choice Web Collaboration, and Choice Web Star: Female at the 2014/2015 Teen Choice Awards.
Similarly, she won Best Actress – Foursome in Streamy Awards 2016 and even got the nomination for Best Ensemble Cast – Foursome alongside her co-stars Meghan Falcone, Brooke Markham, Logan Paul, and Rickey Thompson.
Jenn McAllister – Net Worth 2024
Speaking of her earnings, McAllister is an American actress, YouTuber, and author who has earned a decent sum of money through her work in the entertainment industry.
Therefore, her estimated net worth is around $750,000.
Scandals
More particularly, Jenn McAllister has not been through drastic controversies or stuck into any kind of rumors. Eventually, McAllister maintained a good profile.
However, in 2012 all of her YouTube channels were hacked and deleted. The hacker even uploaded online documents publishing all sorts of personal info including addresses, phone numbers, and passwords.
They even attacked her iCloud account removing all her photos and contacts that she mentioned in her book.
It was a dark time in her life that hampered her professionally as well as personally. The incident was informed to the police.
The perps were eventually caught and the accounts were restored. But still, she was troubled by insecurities and nightmares afterward.
Jenn McAllister – Body Measurements
Gorgeous media personality Jenn McAllister is a good height standing 5 feet 4 inches tall (1.63 m). She weighs around 55 kg and has body measurements of 34-24-35 in.
Similarly, Jenn McAllister has a dress size of 4 US and wears shoes of 7 US. She has an attractive pair of dazzling blue eyes and blonde hair color.