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EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Burgess, who has recurred arsenic teen Melissa connected Showtime‘s Emmy-nominated play Yellowjackets since Season 2, has been promoted to bid regular for nan 4th and last season. Production connected Season 4 precocious sewage underway successful Vancouver.
Burgess has appeared successful 20 episodes since 2023 arsenic teen Melissa successful nan 1990s wilderness timeline, and will return connected a much salient domiciled successful Season 3. Melissa has proven much formidable than she first appeared. Thoughtful, watchful, and fiercely loyal, she navigates nan group’s shifting powerfulness dynamics arsenic endurance pushes nan Yellowjackets to nan brink.
In nan coming day, Melissa is played by Oscar and Golden Globe-winning character Hilary Swank, who joined nan bid successful Season 3. Adult Melissa has spent years keeping nan past astatine a observant distance, until nan reappearance of buried secrets forces her to reckon pinch nan trauma of nan past.
Created and executive produced by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets tells nan saga of a squad of talented precocious schoolhouse girls shot players who go nan (un)lucky survivors of a level clang heavy successful nan distant bluish wilderness.
Equal parts endurance epic, psychological scary communicative and coming-of-age drama, nan bid chronicles their descent from a analyzable but thriving squad to ferocious clans, while besides search nan lives they’ve attempted to portion backmost together astir 25 years later, proving that nan past is ne'er really past and what began retired successful nan wilderness is acold from over.
In nan coming day, Melissa is played by Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning character Hilary Swank, who joined nan bid successful Season 3. Adult Melissa has spent years keeping nan past astatine a observant distance, until nan reappearance of buried secrets forces her to reckon pinch nan trauma of nan past.
Season 3 marked nan most-watched play ever for nan series, pinch nan April 2025 finale becoming nan most-streamed Yellowjackets episode successful bid history.
Season 4 is executive produced by Lyle, Nickerson, and Drew Comins of Creative Engine, on pinch Jeff W. Byrd, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa and Julia Bicknell. The bid is produced by Lionsgate Television.
Burgess is repped by Lindsay Whitaker astatine Alexander White Agency and Pacific Artists Management.
