Jenna Morasca

Jenna Morasca (born February 15, 1981 ) is an American actress, former swimsuit model, professional wrestler and American reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of Survivor: The Amazon in 2003.

Jenna Morasca was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 15, 1981, to Carla and Michael Morasca.

She is an only child.

Before appearing on Survivor, Morasca was a college student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was initiated into Zeta Tau Alpha.

Morasca graduated from South Fayette High School in 1999, and studied at Duquesne University for two years before transferring to University of Pittsburgh.

Morasca first competed on Survivor in the show's sixth season, Survivor: The Amazon.

Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest in 2002.

The season's tribes were split by gender so Morasca was initially placed on Jaburu (women's tribe) alongside Deena Bennett, Jeanne Hebert, Janet Koth, Shawna Mitchell, Christy Smith, Heidi Strobel, and Joanna Ward, as its youngest member.

At the beginning of the game, Morasca formed a friendship with Strobel and Mitchell as they were the youngest women on the tribe.

Despite her lack of work ethic rubbing some the wrong way, she survived the tribe's two visits to tribal council.

A tribe switch resulted in Morasca, Bennett and Mitchell remaining on Jabaru, now accompanied by Alex Bell, Rob Cesternino, and Matthew von Ertfelda.

The new tribe won the following challenge, but lost on day 18 where Mitchell was voted out for her closeness with Bell.

On day 19, the tribes merged into the Jacaré tribe.

During the first immunity challenge, Morasca and fellow contestant Strobel stripped off their clothes for peanut butter and chocolate.

Morasca's alliance now with Bell, Cesternino and Strobel managed to control multiple votes, namely Roger Sexton, Dave Johnson, and Bennett.

At the Final Seven, Cesternino betrayed his alliance by voting out Bell.

At the Final Six, Morasca and Strobel scrambled to stay in the game, trying to break up the alliance of Cesternino, Matthew von Ertfelda and Butch Lockley.

When Christy Smith would not commit to either side, Cesternino convinced Morasca and Strobel to help vote out Smith, who was later voted off.

At the Final Five, Strobel was voted out, but Morasca won the next immunity, allowing her to advance to the Final Three.

Morasca, Cesternino and von Ertfelda voted out Lockley.

Morasca won the key final immunity challenge which gave her the sole power to eliminate either Cesternino or von Ertfelda and eventually eliminated Cesternino.

Morasca beat von Ertfelda in a 6–1 vote to become the Sole Survivor.

In 2005, Morasca replaced Richard Hatch as co-host (with Dalton Ross) of CBS's Survivor Live, an internet talk show devoted to the then-current season of Survivor.

She has since hosted the show throughout five entire seasons - Survivor: Palau, Survivor: Guatemala, Survivor: Panama, Survivor: Cook Islands and Survivor: Fiji.

In 2009, she worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Morasca made her professional wrestling debut on the March 12, 2009, episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's TNA Impact! program, in a backstage interview with Mick Foley.

She then appeared in backstage segments with Kevin Nash and his alliance The Main Event Mafia.

Morasca was the youngest contestant to ever win Survivor until Jud "Fabio" Birza won Survivor: Nicaragua in 2010, though Morasca remains the youngest female contestant to win Survivor.

Morasca's winning game got her cast on the show's first all-star edition Survivor: All-Stars.

Where she was sorted into the Mogo Mogo tribe alongside Colby Donaldson, Richard Hatch, Shii Ann Huang, Lex van den Berghe, and Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien.

Morasca was initially in little danger as her tribe won immunity in the first two episodes.

In Episode Three, Morasca decided to quit the game, out of a desire to be with her dying mother, who had been battling cancer for 12 years, making her the third person eliminated from the competition.

Her mother died eight days after Morasca returned home.

In 2011, Morasca and her then-boyfriend, fellow Survivor winner Ethan Zohn, participated in the 19th season of The Amazing Race.

They were one of the two teams eliminated in a double-elimination, finishing tenth for the season.

In 2012, Rob Cesternino held a pageant named 'Miss Survivor', where individuals could vote for their favorite female survivor.

Morasca was in the running in 2012 alongside Andrea Boehlke, Amanda Kimmel, Parvati Shallow and Courtney Yates.

She went on to lose to Shallow.

Morasca worked as a swimsuit model.

As of January 2021, she works as a veterinary nurse.