Jodie Turner-Smith

Jodie Turner-Smith is a British actress who started with small roles before breaking through on television. Born in Peterborough, England, she was a finance student at the University of Pittsburgh and worked at a bank before Pharrell Williams encouraged her to model and move to Los Angeles. Her first screen role came in 2013 as a siren on True Blood, and minor parts in films and music videos followed. She gained attention as Sgt. Azima Kandie on the TNT series The Last Ship, then appeared in the Syfy series Nightflyers (2018) and the Cinemax series Jett (2019). Her feature debut was The Neon Demon (2016). She starred opposite Daniel Kaluuya in Queen & Slim (2019) and played the title role in the Channel 5 drama Anne Boleyn (2021), a performance that drew praise. Her later films include White Noise (2022), After Yang (2021), and Tron: Ares (2025).