Francesca Root-Dodson is an American actress. She is best known for her role as

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in the

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series '' Gotham''.

Career

Root-Dodson began her career co-starring in Luke Matheny's

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-winning short film '' God of Love''. In 2018, Root-Dodson began a recurring role as

, a character similar to

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, in the

series '' Gotham''. Ecco is the assistant of Jeremiah Valeska, the show's version of the Joker. Executive producer John Stephens teased at ''Gotham''s New York Comic-Con panel in October 2018 that Jeremiah would be paired with a "somewhat deranged girlfriend who dresses in a multicolored fashion." Starting with

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, Stephens explained that the show would be injecting "a lot of the same elements of madness and anarchy, and the sort of mad love that Harley has, and placing it into the Ecco character." Root-Dodson has appeared in two music videos: the video for “Morning Light” by the San Francisco band

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and

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’s video for “Falling Like the Stars.”

Personal life

Root-Dodson posted on her Instagram account that she married in June 2019 and was expecting a daughter.

Filmography

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Root-Dodson, Francesca Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American film actresses American television actresses 21st-century American actresses