Jodi Balfour is a South African actress. She won a

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for her performance as Gladys Witham in the series '' Bomb Girls'' (2012–2013). She has since starred as Ellen Waverly Wilson in the Apple TV+ series '' For All Mankind'' (2019–2023).

Early life and education

Jodi Balfour grew up in

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, South Africa. She studied drama at the

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, graduating in 2009.

Career

Balfour moved to Canada for work, taking roles in ''Sanctuary'' and ''Supernatural''."Bomb Girls' Jodi Balfour talks dancing, acting like a woman in the 1940s and playing the ukulele"
. '' ANDPOP'', 26 January 2013. She was cast as Gladys Witham in the Canadian television drama series '' Bomb Girls'' in 2013. She won a

for Best Lead Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 for her performance in the series' follow-up television film ''Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy''. In February 2015, Balfour was cast in the Cinemax series ''Quarry''. From 2019 to 2023, she starred in the Apple TV+ space drama series '' For All Mankind''. In 2017, she portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in episode eight of ''

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''’s second season. In April 2022, she was cast in the Apple TV+ football sitcom ''

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''. In the 2023 film '' Freud's Last Session'', she portrayed the American psychoanalyst Dorothy Burlingham, the colleague and companion of Anna Freud.

Personal life

Balfour was based in

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, Canada. she was co-owner of Nelson the Seagull, a coffeehouse and bake shop in the city's Gastown neighbourhood. On 30 June 2021, she announced on

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that she identifies as

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, stating that she found it freeing to "finally embrace and explore erqueerness." On 24 October 2021, Balfour announced on Instagram that she and Abbi Jacobson had been romantically involved for a year. They married in

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, New York, in 2023.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Balfour, Jodi 1986 births Living people South African film actresses South African television actresses South African emigrants to Canada Actresses from Cape Town Alumni of Rustenburg School for Girls University of Cape Town alumni Canadian queer actresses South African LGBTQ actors Canadian Screen Award winning actors 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people 21st-century South African LGBTQ people 2008 beauty pageant contestants