the actress nikki deloach wrote the letter to jenna in awkward.
the actress nikki deloach wrote the letter to jenna in awkward.
which actress wrote the letter to jenna in awkward?
nikki deloach
lacey hamilton (nikki deloach), jenna's mother, who is clueless but well-intentioned about raising a teenager. lacey and jenna's father kevin were 17 when jenna was born. lacey, who is extremely concerned with things like appearance and popularity, had jenna when she was a teenager with her high school sweetheart kevin, and gave up on her dreams of going to college, using the funds to get breast implants instead. lacey finds it easy to find faults in her daughter, because she wants jenna to have everything lacey could not have after becoming pregnant. lacey even goes so far to "help" her daughter change her image by writing her an anonymous "care-frontation" letter that sets off the chain of events that lead to jenna becoming known as "suicide girl." eventually, jenna finds out that lacey wrote the brutal letter. lacey is confronted by jenna about writing the letter, and jenna later reveals the information to kevin. kevin is so disgusted by this that he moves out, much to both lacey and jenna's dismay. at ally's wedding, lacey's ex-boyfriend ben appears and begins making moves on her. in the immediate aftermath of the wedding, jenna finds them kissing at the poolside. the next day, jenna informs her that kevin may want a divorce, which makes things worse. eventually, kevin returns home and calls off plans for a divorce, and jenna slowly regains her respect and trust in lacey. in season 4 lacey applies to college and is accepted, much to jenna's chagrin. but in a season finale turn of events, lacey reveals she is pregnant, and kevin and jenna urge her to still attend college. lacey is close friends with her high school best friend ally (whom jenna begrudgingly calls "aunt ally") and later with val marks, jenna's eccentric high school counselor.
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the character of jenna hamilton has received positive feedback. "entertainment weekly" wrote jenna "navigates the sharky waters of high school, friends, mean cheerleaders, and cute boys with a snarky voice-over that makes her—and "awkward."—easy to fall in love with." "the huffington post" deemed jenna's voice-overs "witty" as "[they] make this high-school dark comedy stand out from a crowd of stereotypical high school prime-time soaps." david hinckley of the "daily news" gave the show a four stars rating out of five and wrote ""awkward" is very good". he explained "for all the times we've seen the high school outcast who feels alternately ignored and humiliated by her peer group, she has rarely been played better than ashley rickards plays jenna hamilton." and went on "if the dramas are exaggerated, jenna makes the trauma feel legitimate, and her narration gives everything a knowing undertone of humor and self-awareness that keeps the most uncomfortable moments from being painful." stasi compared ashley rickards to "juno" actress ellen page: "rickards is a great teen actress of the ellen page variety—the kind of kid whose pretty face and adorable bearing is swamped by her ability to look awkward and offbeat." "the washington post" wrote of rickards: "following the well-trod path of molly ringwald's "sixteen candles" and claire danes's "my so-called life", she effortlessly manages to elevate the unfresh premise of mtv's new tuesday night comedy series, "awkward", to something that is tawdry yet honest.
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