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Jean Isabel Smith (born September 7, 1957), credited professionally as J. Smith-Cameron, is an American actress. She spent a majority of her career in theatre but began transitioning to film and television later in life. She is known for her supporting roles as Janet Talbot on the television series Rectify and Gerri Kellman on Succession. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2022.

J. Smith-Cameron
Smith-Cameron in 2015
Born	Jean Isabel Smith (1957-09-07) September 7, 1957 (age 65) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Florida State University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Kenneth Lonergan ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	1

Early life and education

Jean Isabel Smith was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of architect Richard Sharp Smith and granddaughter of architect Richard Sharp Smith.[1] She was raised in Greenville, South Carolina.

She attended Florida State University for one year and was enrolled in its School of Theatre, where she met film director Victor Nuñez, who cast her as a lead in his film Gal Young 'Un (1979).[2] She additionally received acting training at HB Studio[3] in New York City.

She began being credited as "J. Smith" in college out of concern that her first name, Jeannie, was too girlish,[4] and added a family name, Cameron, when told by the Actors' Equity Association that there was already a J. Smith, and there was a rule that two actors cannot have the same professional name.[5]

Career

She made her Broadway debut in August 1982 when she replaced Mia Dillon as "Babe Botrelle" in Crimes of the Heart.[6][7][8] She appeared in the original Broadway cast of Lend Me a Tenor as "Maggie" in 1989.[9] The cast of that play won an Outer Critics Circle Award, Special Awards.[10] She appeared in the Broadway production of Our Country's Good in 1991.[11]

Additional Broadway credits include Night Must Fall (1999),[12] Tartuffe (2002),[13] and After the Night and the Music (2005).[14]

She has appeared in many Off-Broadway plays, including at the Public Theater, the Second Stage Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons.[15] She appeared in the Paul Rudnick play The Naked Truth Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1994.[16] She received a Drama Desk Award nomination for this production.[17]

In November 1999 through April 2000, she appeared in Fuddy Meers as Claire at New York City Center, Stage II, for which she received a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Actress in a Play.[18] In March through June 2004, she appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club Off-Broadway production of Sarah, Sarah.[19] In November through December 2009, she appeared Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre in her husband Kenneth Lonergan's play The Starry Messenger.[7] From October 2013 to December 2013, she starred in the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theater production of Juno and the Paycock as Juno Boyle. The New York Times reviewer wrote: "In one of the finest performances of her distinguished career on the New York stage, Ms. Smith-Cameron imbues her Juno with a steely pragmatism, but more important an emotional pliancy that makes her more prepared than the rest of her clan to beat back the onslaughts of ill fortune that beset them."[20]

Smith-Cameron began transitioning to more film and television roles later in her life to focus on her family life.[21] She played Janet Talbot, the mother of a death row inmate, in Sundance TV's Rectify for four seasons.[21] She has played lawyer Gerri Kellman, a role originally written for a man, on the HBO series Succession since 2018.[22]

She won an Obie Award for the Off-Broadway Drama Department production As Bees in Honey Drown (1997), which also earned her a Drama Desk nomination[23] and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Outstanding Actress In A Play.[24] Additional nominations include the Drama Desk Award for Sarah, Sarah (2004)[25] and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in the play Our Country's Good.[26]

Personal life

Smith-Cameron is married to playwright, screenwriter, and film director Kenneth Lonergan. They have one daughter, Nellie.[4][5]

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Title	Year	Role	Note
Gal Young Un	1979	Elly
84 Charing Cross Road	1987	Ginny	[27]
That Night	1992	Carol Bloom
Jeffrey	1995	Sharon
Mighty Aphrodite	1995	Bud's Wife	[28]
A Modern Affair	1995	Diane
Let It Be Me	1995	Clarice
Sabrina	1995	Carol	[29]
Harriet the Spy	1996	Mrs. Welsch	[30]
The First Wives Club	1996	Miss Sullivan	[31]
The Proprietor	1996	New York - Texans
Arresting Gena	1997	Caroline Lee
In & Out	1997	Trina Paxton	[32]
The Rage: Carrie 2	1999	Barbara Lang
You Can Count on Me	2000	Mabel	[33]
Bittersweet Place	2005	Violet
A Very Serious Person	2006	Carol
Margaret	2011	Joan Cohen	[34]
Man on a Ledge	2012	Psychiatrist
Like Sunday, Like Rain	2014	Mary
Christine	2016	Peg Chubbuck
No Pay, Nudity	2016	Debra
Nancy	2018	Ellen Lynch
Vengeance	2022	Sharon
Turtles All the Way Down	TBA	Professor Abbott	Post-production

Television

Sources: The New York Times[35][36]

Title	Year	Role	Note
Guiding Light	1984–1985	Nancy Ferris	Unknown episodes
The Equalizer	1985, 1988, 1989	Various	3 episodes
H.E.L.P.	1990	Mrs. Perry	Episode: "Fire Down Below"
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd	1990–1991	Ramona Luchesse	12 episodes
Homicide: Life on the Street	1996	Avis Griffin	Episode: "Sniper: Part 2"
Spin City	1996	Lisa	Episode: "The Competition"
Law & Order	1998, 2001, 2003, 2009	Various	4 episodes
American Experience	1998	Mrs. Howard	Episode: "A Midwife's Tale"
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2001, 2007	Various	2 episodes
K Street	2003	Tommy's Wife	3 episodes
Six Degrees	2007	Maggie Newton	2 episodes
Canterbury's Law	2008	Elissa Shapiro	Episode: "Sweet Sixteen"
The Big C	2010	Vivian	Episode: "Playing the Cancer Card"
True Blood	2010–2011[37]	Melinda Mickens	9 episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	2011	Diane Eskas	Episode: "Educated Guess"
Rectify	2013–2016	Janet Talbot	30 episodes
Madam Secretary	2014	Alice Millevoi	Episode: "Collateral Damage"
The Good Wife	2015	Samara Steel	Episode: "Restraint"
Divorce	2016–2018	Elaine Campbell	3 episodes
Search Party	2017–2020	Mary Ferguson	7 episodes
Mozart in the Jungle	2018	Amy Rutledge	Episode: "If I Was an Elf, I Would Tell You"
Succession	2018–present	Gerri Kellman	Series regular

References

External links

• J. Smith-Cameron at the Internet Broadway Database
• Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing
• J. Smith-Cameron at IMDb

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[de] J. Smith-Cameron

J. Smith-Cameron (* 7. September 1957 in Louisville, Kentucky[1] als Jean Isabel Smith[2]) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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[ru] Смит-Камерон, Джей

Джей Смит-Камерон (англ. J. Smith-Cameron, род. 7 сентября 1957) — американская актриса. Номинантка на премию «Тони».

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