Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito is an American actress and director. Born in Brooklyn and raised on Staten Island, she made her first television appearance on Law & Order in 1996 and then spent two seasons on Spin City. Her early film work included I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and a notable role was Ruby in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (1999). She followed with Dracula 2000, The Master of Disguise, Taxi (2004), and the Academy Award-winning Crash (2005), as Ria, the partner and romantic interest of Don Cheadle's character. On television she was a regular on Related and Samantha Who?, joined Blue Bloods in 2010 as Detective Jackie Curatola, and later appeared on Mistresses. Between 2016 and 2017 she was Special Agent Alexandra Quinn on NCIS, and from 2019 to 2020 she played CIA Deputy Director Susan Raynor on The Boys. She wrote, directed, and starred in Fresh Kills (2024), playing a mother in a crime-family coming-of-age story.