Jordana Spiro

Jordana Spiro (born April 12, 1977) is an American actress, director, and writer. As an actress, she has starred in numerous films and television series including Netflix's Ozark and TBS comedy television program My Boys.

Jordana Spiro
Spiro in December 2016
Born (1977-04-12) April 12, 1977 (age 47)
EducationCircle in the Square Theatre
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Columbia University
OccupationActress
Years active1995–present
SpouseMatthew Spitzer
Children1

Her debut feature Night Comes On, which she directed and co-wrote (with Angelica Nwandu) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. She developed the film at the Sundance Institute's Directors, Screenwriters, and Composers Labs, and through a Cinereach development grant. Her short Skin premiered at Sundance and won the Women In Film Productions award. Skin also won the Honorable Mention Award at SXSW, showed at Telluride, Palm Springs, and AFI among others. Spiro earned her MFA in Film from Columbia University in 2015 and received the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Fellowship. She studied drama at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York and was selected to join the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin.

Early life and education edit

Spiro was born and raised in New York City. She is Jewish.[1] Spiro has a brother and three sisters.[2] She studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre[3][4] School and briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art[5][6] in London. In fall 2009, she began the MFA Program in Filmmaking at Columbia University.[7] She finished the degree in 2015.[8] Spiro currently splits her time between Los Angeles and New York.

Career edit

Spiro's first film role was as Catherine Reece in the 1999 film, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, a direct-to-DVD prequel to the 1996 film From Dusk till Dawn.

In 2000 Spiro starred in her first TV series, the USA crime drama The Huntress. Co-star Annette O'Toole and Spiro played mother and daughter bounty hunters, based on the lives of Dottie And Brandi Thorson. The series ran for 28 episodes, concluding in 2001.

Spiro starred in the TBS original comedy series My Boys.[9] She played the role of P.J., a twenty-something "guy's girl", and sports reporter who tries to find romance within her world that is dominated by male friends. The series wrapped its fourth and final season on TBS in 2010.

Spiro also appeared in the 2009 comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard alongside Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms and Rob Riggle, and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The Goods was directed by Neal Brennan.[10]

Additional credits include The Year of Getting to Know Us, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance film festival, IFC's Alone with Her, as well as guest appearances on Cold Case,[11] Out of Practice,[12] and CSI: NY.[13]

Spiro was scheduled to star in the planned 2010–11 television series Love Bites, but fell out of the role in June 2010 due to other contractual obligations.[14] Spiro was also cast alongside Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman in the thriller, Trespass.[15] She was a guest star on the Showtime 2011 season of Dexter.[16] For the 2012–13 season, she had the lead role in the Fox-TV medical/crime drama The Mob Doctor.

Recently, Spiro starred as Rachel Garrison in the Netflix crime drama Ozark.[17][18]

In February 2024, Spiro joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Shannah Sykes, an FBI agent on loan to the show's special victims unit squad.[19]

Personal life edit

She is married to Matthew Spitzer[20] with whom she has a daughter.[21]

Filmography edit

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995Maybe This TimeChaseTV series, 1 episode: "The Other Mother"
1996Her Last ChanceWaitressTV movie
1996If These Walls Could TalkAlison (segment "1974")TV movie
1997Buffy the Vampire SlayerCallie AndersonTV series, 1 episode: "Reptile Boy"
1998Beverly Hills, 90210Carrie KnoxTV series, 1 episode: "Dealer's Choice"
1998City GuysZoeyTV series, 1 episode: "A Guy and a Goth"
1998One WorldAlexTV series, 3 episodes
1999From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's DaughterCatherine Reece
1999UndressedMerrithTV series, season 2
2000–2001The HuntressBrandi ThorsonTV series, main cast
2003Playas BallTonya Jenkins
2004Beck and CallJemmaTV movie
2004The Greener GrassHeather
2005CSI: NYTavia GreenburgTV series, 1 episode: "Tanglewood"
2005Cold CaseSuzanneTV series, 1 episode: "Revolution"
2005JAGNavy Lt. Catherine GravesTV series, 3 episodes
2005Must Love DogsSherry
2005Out of PracticeBianca/RobertaTV series, 2 episodes
2005Partner(s)Anne
2006Kitchen ConfidentialAlisonTV series, 1 episode: "Praise Be Praise"
2006Alone with HerJen
2006ArgoBeccaShort film
2006–2010My BoysP.J. FranklinTV series, main cast
2007Living & DyingMary Jane
2007ResignedAlisonShort film
2008The Year of Getting to Know UsKim Temple
2009The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardIvy Selleck
2011TrespassPetal
2011Harry's LawRachael MillerTV series, recurring role (season 1)
2011DexterBeth DorseyTV series
2012–2013The Mob DoctorDr. Grace DevlinTV series
2013–2014The Good WifeDetective Jenna VilletteTV series, 4 episodes
2015–2016, 2020BlindspotSarah WellerTV series, recurring role (season 1), guest (season 5)
2017–2018, 2022OzarkRachel GarrisonTV series, main cast (seasons 1–2), recurring role (season 4)
2019To the StarsFrancie Deerborne
2021Fear Street Part One: 1994Mrs. Lane
2021Fear Street Part Two: 1978Nurse Mary Lane
2021Fear Street Part Three: 1666The Widow/Mrs. Lane
2021Small Engine RepairKaren Delgado
2022Law & Order: Special Victims UnitDelia HackmanTV series, 1 episode: "A Final Call at Forlini's Bar"
2024Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Special Agent SykesTV series, recurring role (season 24)
TBAThe SavantUpcoming miniseries[22]

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