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Created on 2008-08-12 07:01:04 (#16343477), last updated 2009-09-24

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Name:	Jenny Schecter

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Bio

Season 1

Recently graduated from college, Jenny decides to move from the Midwest to Los Angeles, where her boyfriend Tim Haspel is currently living, and working as the assistant swim coach to a girls swim team at the fictional California University. Tim took a lease on a house and renovated the garage to create a writer's workshop for Jenny to start her career as a writer.

After arriving, Jenny discovers that the neighborhood where Tim is living has far more to it than meets the eye. She unwittingly observes Shane engaging in a fling with one of her conquests at the house next door, belonging to Bette Porter and Tina Kennard. Tim confirms for Jenny their neighbors are a lesbian couple, but after Jenny's description of the encounter insists the neighbors were not the lesbian couple she observed having sex in the pool.

The day after the pool incident, Jenny meets neighbor Tina. During their introduction, Tina extends Jenny an invitation to a party at her and Bette's home. Jenny accepts the invitation to the party, a decision that proves to mark the beginning of a new life for her.

Jenny and Tim attend the party. Jenny meets and engages in small talk with Alice. Alice unsuccessfully hits on Jenny, at which point Marina Ferrer joins the conversation. As Marina and Jenny display an immediate chemistry, Alice backs off her attempt and lets Marina follow the conquest. During Jenny and Marina's conversation, Jenny excuses herself to go to the bathroom. Marina interprets Jenny's departure as a sexual invitation and follows her into the bathroom. Here Marina kisses Jenny for the first time and unleashes what later is to evolve into an affair. This is Jenny's first sexual encounter with a woman, as later detailed in her 'coming out' story.

Upset and frightened by their intimate encounter in the bathroom, Jenny grabs Tim and leaves the party. She begins to consider the possibility of exploring her newly discovered feelings or keeping on the safe ground in her heterosexual relationship with Tim. She eventually succumbs to Marina and starts having an affair. In the meantime, Tim and Jenny become engaged. Tim, unaware of Jenny's affair, invites Marina to a dinner party to celebrate their engagement. Their neighbor Bette deduces what is going on and the rumor of the affair spreads in the local lesbian community. Tina, Jenny's neighbor and also Bette's long-time partner, decides to confront Jenny about the affair. Jenny denies anything between herself and Marina. Alice later confirms the secret and prevents Tim from discovering the affair by warning Jenny of his arrival to The Planet, where Jenny is engaged in an intimate encounter with Marina. But this close call only makes Jenny even more reckless and unapologetic to her tryst with Marina.

Tim later discovers the affair by accident. He leaves the house for a swim meet and discovers he has forgotten something. After returning home to retrieve his stopwatch he walks in on Marina performing cunnilingus on Jenny. Tim storms out of the house heartbroken. After an emotional confrontation that same day that could endanger their life together, Jenny agrees to marry Tim and also promises to never see Marina again. Tim forces Jenny to confront Marina at The Planet and tell her the affair is over. Tim and Jenny travel to a motel and are married.

The morning after, Jenny finds herself alone in the hotel. Tim has left in the middle of the night, leaving his wedding ring and a note on the bedside table. She leaves the motel and hitchhikes back to Los Angeles with two unaffected teenagers. She ends up traveling for days and decides to attempt a reconciliation with Tim. Tim in the meantime has discovered that Jenny and Marina's affair was not a one time occurrence as Jenny had previously stated. After Jenny lies to Tim right to his face (the first of many times) about how many times she has cheated on him with Marina (revealing that she does not love Tim), he rejects her and breaks all ties with her. After being kicked out of their house, Jenny reaches out to Marina. Marina takes Jenny in. After staying for a few days, Jenny discovers that Marina has an ongoing relationship with someone else and does not intend to break it up because of their affair. Marina asks Jenny to leave as her girlfriend is soon returning to town. Jenny is again left alone.

Now homeless, Jenny heads back to Tim and he allows her to move into the backyard workshop. During the time she lives there, she befriends Dana and the rest of the group, and she travels with them to Palm Springs. On this excursion Jenny meets Robin (Anne Ramsay), a woman who saves her from making a fool of herself with Marina. Robin and Jenny begin dating upon their return to L.A. from Palm Springs. Once back in Los Angeles, Jenny also seduces Gene Feinberg, a male marine biologist. By the end of the first season, Jenny's relationship with Tim is completely over, resulting in divorce. and she is left to choose between Robin, Gene, and an apologetic Marina, who phones Jenny to let her know she is willing to start it all over again.

Season 2

Season two starts with Jenny having chosen to continue dating Gene. However, Gene soon ends the relationship with Jenny because from her actions he concludes that she is a full-on lesbian. Robin reappears in Jenny's scene and informs her of Marina's suicide attempt and departure. They start seeing each other for a short time, until Jenny ends the relationship after a heart-to-heart conversation with Robin because she felt things were moving too quickly.

Tim moves back to Ohio for a teaching position, and Jenny takes over the lease on the house. She takes Shane in and together they search for a new roomate, finally deciding on Mark Wayland (portrayed by Eric Lively). With their permission, Mark later embarks on a project of videotaping the girls for a documentary, although he also locates several cameras around the house to spy on them without their consent.

Jenny also begins to attend a writer's workshop at UCLA taught by the abrasive and stern feminist writer Charlotte Birch (Sandra Bernhard). Jenny meets Carmen, one of Shane's conquests, and later gets involved with her -much to Shane's discontent. Upon her discovery of Mark's secret videorecordings, she learns that Carmen has never stopped loving Shane, and that she is only using Jenny until the "real deal" comes along. This violation of privacy stirs up buried ghosts and memories of a violent trauma that she suffered as a child. Trying to release her inner pain, a disturbed Jenny attempts to miss a Caribbean cruise trip with her friends but ends up going anyway, gets a job in a strip club where she begins to perform as "Miss Yeshiva girl", and also starts to flirt with danger by cutting herself and engaging in self-destructive behavior. During the second season finale, Shane discovers Jenny hurting herself and promises that she'll get Jenny the help she desperately needs.

Season 3

Six months later, Jenny returns from Skokie to Los Angeles, after having received medical help and staying at her parents' house. She returns with a new girlfriend, Moira, a butch lesbian who once in Los Angeles acknowledges her interest of transitioning into becoming a male. Jenny introduces Moira to her group of friends, which doesn't come out as planned after Moira storms out and disappears for a whole night. Jenny is supportive of Moira's transition at first, and even injects her with hormones, but as she starts calling herself Max, gets more testosterone, becomes more aggressive, and adopts a heterosexual man's behavior, Jenny's support wanes. During this process, Jenny hears from a publisher interested in her work, travels to New York to visit an editor, and gets a contract and an advance for a thinly fictionalized memoir. At the same time, Jenny attempts to work things out with Max by attending a support group. Her relationship however continues on a down spiral as conflicts arise when she reveals Max's transitioning to Tim during a lunch meeting with him. With her discomfort with Max's new way of acting, their relationship becomes conflictive and Jenny ends it after realizing Max's plans to fit in are not what she wants. She gets involved with a French writer named Claude while in Canada for Shane and Carmen's wedding.

Season 4

Season four finds Jenny spinning wildly out of control into selfish, sociopathic behavior after the publishing of her memoir. She is confronted to Marina and her past feelings in a swift return just long enough to spirit away Jenny's new lover Claude before disappearing once again. She later opens up to a journalist from Curve, named Stacey Merkin (Heather Matarazzo), who appears to sympathize with Jenny but gives her memoir Some of Her Parts a scathing and disapproving review. In retaliation - and following Phyllis' dubious advice -, Jenny attempts to dig up dirt in Stacey Merkin's life by seducing her lover Lindsey in the hopes of proving that she is not as virtuous and saintly as Stacey believes her to be. As part of her plan, Jenny adopts a dying dog from an animal shelter, tracks down Lindsey, a veterinarian, and asks her to euthanise it. She later uses the dog's death as an excuse to approach Lindsey for support and develop a relationship. Further into the series, Jenny decides to confess the truth to Lindsey, only to be confronted by Stacey Merkin in person, ruining Jenny's chances of confessing her new founded attraction to Lindsey, and also causing an unpleasant moment in front of her agents as she heads up to become famous.

Jenny later publishes a short story titled Lez Girls in the The New Yorker, which is a thinly veiled account of her life with the rest of the series' cast, much to the dismay of some of her friends, particularly Alice. The novella turns out to be a hot property sparking interst in Hollywood. Tina's studio is desperate to get the rights to adapt it into a movie. Despite their constantly clashing personalities, creative differences in the movie's concept, and Jenny's distaste for Tina's recently rediscovered feelings towards men, They start working together to get the story made into a film and search for a director until they settle for Kate Arden (Annabella Sciorra). Arden turns out not be a fan of Jenny's script-writing capabilities and at the fourth season finale, Jenny's position as a writer in her own film is in jeopardy.

Season 5

After spending several months abroad on vacation in Mexico, Jenny returns to Los Angeles in the season opener having ingratiated herself with a hedge fund billionaire producer, named William Halsey. She becomes both the screenwriter and director for the film adaptation of Lez Girls, and turns it into her Mary Sue fantasy while clashing with Tina. By this time, Jenny's character has turned into that of a full-blossomed megalomaniac with a raging Hollywood diva air, driving away her appointed assistant with unreasonable demands. She later meets and hires Adele Channing (Malaya Rivera Drew), a fan of her writing, as her new assistant. With Adele's and Jenny's friends' help, she throws a party to introduce her friends to the actresses playing them in the film, which proves disastrous. At this same time, Max notices that some of the details of Adele's account of her difficult childhood do not add up, but Jenny and Shane support Adele.

As the production of the film begins, Jenny starts a relationship. with Niki Stevens (Kate French), the young actress playing "Jessie", the leading role in Lez Girls. Adele, who at the beginning appears to be a helpful hand, turns out to be manipulative and treacherous, adopts Jenny's hair and dress style and secretly sabotages the film's production. Jenny and Niki's relationship proves to be difficult, as Niki has chosen to appear straight to the public but the rumors of her Lez Girl reality start to spread after her appearance at SheBar.

Later Adele steals a sex tape that Jenny and Niki made during the Subaru Pink Ride and uses it as a means of blackmail to have Jenny removed as the director of "Lez Girls", with herself being the replacement. This devastates Jenny, particularly when Niki chooses to honor her contract and remain filming with Adele; Jenny then states that Niki is dead to her. However, Jenny does repair her relationship with a sympathetic Tina and finds some comfort in Shane's unwavering friendship (Shane quits the film in solidarity with Jenny). Jenny also apologizes to Max for doubting him when he voiced his suspicions about Adele earlier.

In the season finale, Jenny crashes the wrap party for the movie in the middle of Adele's speech as Channing has fully adopted Jenny's look, personality, (and even starts a romance with Begonia, the actress playing "Karina", Marina's analogue character). Adele reluctantly hands her the microphone, prompting Jenny to tell everyone she wanted to tell Niki she was "madly in love" with someone. In her search to find Niki, she walks in on an intimate moment between Niki and Shane on a balcony. Jenny turns and walks away, and the two chase after her. Her final words to the two are, "you've broken my heart." As everyone looks on, a dejected Jenny walks off into the night.

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