Kristen Marie Jensen

Jensen's career started in 2005 with an uncredited-level role as a Waitress in *The World's Fastest Indian*, the Anthony Hopkins vehicle directed by Roger Donaldson. Not a flashy entrance. But the following year brought *Bonneville* (2006), and she kept working steadily through the late 2000s and into the 2010s. The mid-2010s were arguably her most varied stretch — she took on Elinor Dashwood in the TV series *Austentatious* (2015), a Jane Austen-riff that gave her a meatier dramatic frame to work within, and also appeared as Cassidy in *Blood & Oil* (2015), the ABC primetime drama that, despite a splashy premise, didn't last past its first season. *Switched for Christmas* (2017) landed her in the holiday-movie ecosystem that Hallmark and Lifetime have turned into a reliable content machine — the kind of film that's easy to dismiss but draws serious viewership numbers every December. Her longest-running credit is *Yellowstone*, the Paramount Network drama that became one of cable's biggest hits of the early 2020s. Jensen appeared across the show's run from 2018 through 2024 (IMDb), a span that covers the series' rise from cult favorite to genuine mainstream phenomenon. She also took a sharp left turn with *Babysitter Must Die* (2020), playing Jen Castillo in a horror-comedy that leaned hard into genre conventions — and her most audience-celebrated work, *Wayward: The Prodigal Son*, earned that 78% Rotten Tomatoes audience score that suggests real word-of-mouth traction (Rotten Tomatoes). Jensen is also credited as a director in her body of work, which, if that thread develops further, could define the next phase of her career just as much as any acting role.