- Her grandmother named her after the character Jenna Wade played by Priscilla Presley on the 1980s TV drama 'Dallas'.
- In an interview with Gerard Gilbert of The Independent (UK newspaper), she said of the name change from Jenna-Louise to Jenna, "The boring truth is that people have never really called me Jenna-Louise and I just found it very strange because I started to do more interviews and go places where people I didn't know kept calling me Jenna-Louise. It sounded odd to me.".
- Voted Best Female Guest Star for Season 7A for Asylum of The Daleks by readers of Doctor Who Magazine.
- While auditioning for Doctor Who, the code name that was used was Men on Waves, an anagram for Woman Seven.
- Skipped drama school after she was chosen to play Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale.
- Is friends with Perdita Weeks, Sammy Windward, Dianna Agron, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Rufus Sewell, Margaret Clunie, and Tahar Rahim.
- She is the paternal granddaughter of Geoffrey Coleman and Marion Salthouse and the maternal granddaughter of Michael Morris.
- Daughter of Keith Coleman and Karen Morris. She also has an older brother, Benjamin Coleman.
- Her first nude scene was in Episode #1.1 (2012).
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