Norma Kuhling

Norma Kuhling is an American actress born in New York City in 1990, whose early credits include the 2009 comedy-drama The Joneses and a 2011 staging of Michael Weller's Moonchildren at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In 2016 she appeared in the romantic fantasy Fallen and took guest parts in the first season of Falling Water. She joined Chicago Med in 2017 as the ambitious Dr. Ava Bekker, first seen in the second-season finale and then a regular in seasons three and four until she left in 2019. That year she starred in Fourteen as Jo Mitchel, a social worker with a difficult friendship with Mara, played by Tallie Medel; critics praised the two leads, and Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter counted their work among the best film performances of 2020. Her television roles also include Assistant District Attorney Cindy CJ Jones on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and tactical medic Nora Fowler on S.W.A.T.