Jana Rae Kramer is a very famous artist in the genre of country music. She has later become an actress, and her biggest role was in the series called One Tree Hill, where she played the character of Alex Dupre.
In 2012, she decided to create a career in music and she has made a few albums since then, one called Jana Kramer and the other one called Thirty One. They did fairly well and have been on some of the most famous charts when it comes to country music.
She is very experienced and has a lot of potential in both areas: singing and acting.
Although many thought that she is wealthier, she has a net worth of $2 million.
Early years
Jana Rae Kramer is from Rochester Hills in Michigan, in the United States of America. She was born on December 2nd in 1983.
She used to go to Rochester Adams High School where she pursued many of her interesting talents.
She was always a good student but not outstanding, since she had spent a lot of her time playing instruments and singing instead of studying. Her dream was to become a country singer and a star.
She speaks a little bit of German, but she isn’t as good at it as her brother Steve is. Her parents are called Nora and Martin and they are both German so they wanted their kids to know the very basics.
Career development
Her first role was in a horror movie called Dead/Undead. It was a very low budget movie and it was not very greatly accepted amongst people. However, she said the movie was a great experience and that she enjoyed doing it very much.
The next year she was in All My Children, a daytime TV series aired on ABC, and then she continued to be in many famous TV shows like CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice CSI: NY.
In 2007, she decided to accept the offer for the NBC’s sports drama called Friday Night Lights. Her biggest roles have been in some teen show slike Beverly Hills 90210 and similar stuff.
She was very happy when she got a role on the HBO’s series Entourage in 2009 since this was a very popular show at the time. She played a sorority girl and her co-star Jerry Ferrara had those roles quite often as well.
However, her biggest thing came out after 2009 because in June of that year she got the role in the famous series One Tree Hill.
Her character was called Alex Dupre and it was a girl in love with fashion and fashion brands. She used to be a regular character, but then she decided to pursue her music career instead and therefore she left the show.
She was in the series from 2009 until 2012 and had left it after 38 episodes.
In 2012, she didn’t re-appear in the ninth season and she decided to follow her dream of becoming a famous singer.
Thankfully, she had already created a contract with Elektra Records, and she has been working on several songs. Her first one was „I Won’t Give Up“ and it has been featured in her hit series One Tree Hill. That’s actually how many people found out about her work.
The songs started to hit the Billboard chart, which gave her quite a lot of room to work with.
In 2012, she started to act in the drama called Hear of the Country and she had one of the leading roles, which made her pretty popular.
Hear of the country is a drama movie which was directed by John Ward and she starred in it alongside Gerald McRaney.
The movie was shot in North Carolina and it was a great experience for her. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Her debut single, the one that represented her first album, was released in January of 2012 and it was called Why Ya Wanna. It soon reached the 52nd place on the Billboard’s top 100, which was a pretty big success for an author of her fame.
It was a single from her debut album which was named after her: Jana Kramer. The album was a success since it was a debut album and rose to No.19 on the Billboard Album Chart.
In June, she performed it in New York City to build up some tension related to her career, and she continued to release her album called Jana Kramer.
In 2013, the Nationwide Insurance made sure that she was featured in their series called „Join the Nation“ – it was more of a campaign. After people saw that she was good when it comes to commercials and they set her to create a jingle for some of the TVs more famous companies.
In late 2014, she had acted as Mrs. Claus in a more sexy edition, which was quite an interesting one for her.
She was very thankful for people like Blake Shelton being very interested in her and making her their opening act on their tours and concerts.
In 2013, she was in a movie called Approaching Midnight. This independent drama was filmed in 2013 and was directed by Sam Logan Khaleghi.
Sam also starred in the movie alongside Jana, Brandon T. Jackson, and Mia Serafino.
In 2015, Jana got engaged in the foto session for print advertises where she recommended Pure Silk shave cream for legs.
In 2016, she was invited to be in a show called Dancing with the Star. It was the 23rd season and she was paired with a very famous Russian dancer called Gleb Savchenko.
She did very well in the show and had gained several tens for her and her partner’s great performance but she was voted off in the semi-finals.
The biggest reason for her unsuccessful semi-finals lied in the fact that her partner Gleb had the flu so the pair couldn’t rehearse their dance enough.
Personal life
In 2004, Jana got married to a man named Michael Gambino. She met him when she was only 19 years old and she believed that he was very charming.
However, this marriage lasted less than 4 months since the dark side of her husband came up and he was being very abusive.
In an interview for the People Magazine in 2017, she has described the horror of her first marriage. She described how her husband often choked her and how she sometimes slept in her car to avoid him. He was extremely jealous and often yelled at her and hit her because of it.
In 2005, the problem culminated in that way that he choked her and hurt her and she fell unconscious in their home yard.
He was pressed with murder charges later and was sentenced for six years in jail.
After he was released from jail in 2010 she was scared about his revenge but in the end, he committed suicide in 2012.
In 2009, she found love with Johnathon Schaech, an actor from America, and they married in July of 2010. This relationship didn’t last long either, and they got divorced in June 2011.
She was not discouraged and she still believed in love. After that, she decided to date Brantley Gilbert, a fellow singer. They met at a music awards event, but she ended the relationship after 7 months.
She was rumored to date Scott Eastwood in the faĺl of 2013 but it was never confirmed by the two of them.
In 2014, she was with Mike Caussin, an athlete that plays in Washington Redskins. The couple met on Twitter. Again, just weeks later, they broke up because he was cheating on her.
Later she forgave him, and they were together as well. They got engaged in 2014 and married in May of 2015. She gave birth to a girl in 2016, and her name is Jolie Rae Caussin.
However, Caussin had to be admitted to rehab and they had to be separated for some time. After that, they had their second kid called Jace Joseph Caussin in 2018.
Rumors started to fly that Caussin was cheating on her again, but they have shared that Caussin has a sex addiction they are battling with to this day.
As for her involvement in sports or training, Jana is known as a great runner. She has been a trail runner from her very young age and likes to run for miles. Interestingly, she is one of the rare people that don’t listen to music while running.
She loves to listen to Eminem while training kickboxing. She also does Pilates.
She is a huge hockey fan, like most of the people from her state. It is not surprising especially when you know that she was figure skating as a kid and was pretty good at it.
She was a huge fan of a TV series called “Sons of Anarchy” and she followed it passionately.
She is very passionate about dogs and has a female dog named Biscuit. When she was abused in her first marriage her husband always threatened to harm her dogs because he knew that she was very attached to them.
She has one tattoo and it is located on her wrist. It says 11:11.
Jana is known for being superstitious and has several odd things she does to make her feel better and ensure luck.
Her favorite alcoholic drinks are whiskey and red wine but she doesn’t consume it often.
Quick summary
Full name: Jana Rae Kramer
Date of birth: December 2, 1983
Birthplace: Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States
Age: 36
Profession: singer, actress
Height: 1, 63 m
Weight: 52 kg
Net Worth: $2 million