Inside Jenna Dewan’s $4.7 Million Encino Mansion | House Tour 2026

The house lights dim, the band strikes up, and 16 celebrities are about to find out just how hard it is to actually dance for a living. Good Morning America broke the news live Wednesday, unveiling the full season 35 cast of Dancing with the Stars. A roster stacked with a chef, social media personalities, athletes, reality stars, and film and television actors. One name stood out for how strange it was that it hadn't happened sooner. >> [music] >> Jenna Dewan, the actress and one-time professional dancer who has spent 20 years standing just outside the ballroom fronting [music] World of Dance, sitting on the judges panel for Come Dance with Me, headlining the Step Up movies that arguably built the modern dance film genre, is finally competing herself. Her partner for this season is Val Chmerkovskiy, one of the franchise's most decorated pros. For someone whose entire public life has been built around movement, this isn't really a new chapter. It's closer to coming home. Today we are talking about Jenna Dewan, the Step Up star, the Rookie's Bailey Nune, and now a Dancing with the Stars season 35 [music] competitor, and we are going inside the $4.7 million Encino mansion she shares with fiance Steve Kazee and their three children. We are covering the backup dancer beginnings that took her around the world with Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera, the [music] marriage to Channing Tatum that made her a household name, the very public and very long divorce that followed, the family she has since built [music] with Steve Kazee, and the home in the San Fernando Valley where all of it now lives. This is Jenna Dewan, told through the house she built for her second act, and the career that finally brought her to the ballroom. Jenna Lee Dewan was born on December 3rd, 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Nancy Bursh Smith and Daryl Dewan, a former Notre Dame running back. Her parents divorced when she was young, and after her mother remarried, the family eventually settled in Grapevine, Texas, where Dewan became a varsity cheerleader at Grapevine High School and was voted prom queen her senior year. It was not, on the surface, the biography of a future Hollywood dancer, but dance had already taken hold, and by the time she enrolled at the University of Southern California, she was already working professionally, touring as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson's All for You World Tour before going on to perform behind Christina Aguilera, Pink, Missy Elliott, and Sean Combs. That was the training ground, not a conservatory, but a stage behind some of the biggest pop stars of the early 2000s, learning to move on command in front of stadium crowds. The role that changed everything arrived in 2006 when Dewan was cast as Nora Clark opposite a then-unknown Channing Tatum in Step Up, a modest dance film that became a genuine box office hit and launched a five-movie franchise. Dewan and Tatum began dating on set. They married on July 11th, 2009 in Malibu, and in 2013 welcomed their daughter, Everly. For nearly a decade, Dewan and Tatum were one of Hollywood's most visible dance world couples, and Dewan built out a steady career of her own alongside the marriage. >> [music] >> A recurring role on American Horror Story: Asylum, Freya Beauchamp on Witches of East End, Lucy Lane across Supergirl and its spin-off Superman and Lois, and a stint hosting [music] the NBC competition series World of Dance, putting her behind the judging table for exactly the kind of televised dance competition she is now stepping into as a contestant. [music] In April 2018, Dewan and Tatum announced they were separating. She filed for divorce that October, and what followed was a genuinely protracted legal process. The divorce was not finalized until 2024, six years later, following a contentious battle over assets that reportedly included profits from the Magic Mike franchise. [music] Dewan has spoken about the period with characteristic candor, rather than bitterness, choosing in the years since to focus publicly on the family she was building next rather than the one that had ended. [music] That next family began taking shape almost immediately. Dewan met actor and singer Steve Kazee in 2018 and the relationship became public within months. In September 2019, the couple announced they were expecting their first child together. Kazee proposed in February 2020 and their son Callum Michael Rebel Kazee was born on March the 6th, 2020. A second child, daughter Evianne Lee Katherine Kazee, followed on June 14th, [music] 2024. Through it all, Dewan and Kazee have remained engaged rather than married. A fact she has addressed openly in interviews, telling people in late 2025 that her now 12-year-old daughter Everly is closely involved in wedding planning and wants to make sure, above all, that the day is fun. Career-wise, the most consequential development of these years was Dewan's casting on ABC's The Rookie, where she joined as a guest star in season 3 playing firefighter Bailey Nune, developed a relationship with the show's lead character, and was promoted to series regular by season [music] 4. A role she continues to play today, now well past 100 episodes. In a twist that only television could produce, Steve Kazee himself joined The Rookie's cast playing Bailey's on-screen ex-husband, a bit of professional overlap Dewan has described [music] as genuinely fun rather than strange since the two of them get to unleash entirely fictional drama at work before going home to a very different, [music] much calmer reality. That calmer reality is the Encino mansion. Dewan and Kazee moved into their current Los Angeles home in 2021, purchasing a 7,200 square foot property for $4.7 million after previously renting a modern house nearby in the San Fernando Valley, which the couple furnished together with the help of designer Aaron Featherstone and online retailer AllModern in a style Dewan has described as a happy medium between Kazi's minimalism and her own [music] more feminine mystical sensibility. The Encino house is considerably more grown-up in scale. Six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, each of the primary suites finished on suite, a temperature-controlled wine closet, a state-of-the-art kitchen built around two islands, and a full home cinema for family movie nights. Outside, the property includes a private garden with a swimming pool, [music] an outdoor kitchen and bar built for entertaining, and a putting green that Dewan has [music] since converted in practice into a play area for her son Callum. The kind of small telling adjustment that separates a showpiece home from one that is actually being lived in by young children. She has occasionally shared glimpses of the interior on social media, including her home gym fitted with mats, free weights, a foam roller, and a full-length mirror. A private echo of the professional dance training that built her entire career in the first place. From a cheerleader in Grapevine, Texas, to a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, to the star of Step Up, to a six-year legal battle that finally closed in 2024, [music] to an Encino mansion built for a blended family of five, to a season 35 Dancing with the Stars pairing with Val Chmerkovskiy that finally puts her in the ballroom she has spent two decades circling professionally. Jenna Dewan's story has come back in the end [music] to exactly where it started, dance. So, here is the question. Does Jenna Dewan's lifetime of dance experience make her the frontrunner to win season 35, or does judging and hosting the competition for years not actually prepare you for dancing in it yourself? Drop your answer in the comments below. >> [music]