---
name: "Joanna Newsom"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joanna-newsom"
fi1m_id: "joanna-newsom"
imdb_id: "nm1827079"
tmdb_id: 1412012
wikidata_id: "Q233061"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 January 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T21:26:44.500260+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joanna Newsom

## Identity

Joanna Newsom

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joanna-newsom
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joanna-newsom
- **IMDb ID:** nm1827079
- **TMDB ID:** 1412012
- **Wikidata ID:** Q233061
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Newsom, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233061, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1827079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1412012

Actor. Born 18 January 1982 in Nevada City, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 January 1982, Nevada City, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Newsom, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233061, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1827079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1412012

## Biography

Joanna Newsom is an American actress and musician. She played Sortilège, who also narrates, in Paul Thomas Anderson's film *Inherent Vice* (2014).

She has taken other acting roles, including a harpist in an episode of the television series *Portlandia* (2012), the Steam Punk Doctor in *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016) and Caroline Saint-Jacques Renard in an episode of *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2021). Newsom began her career as a singer-songwriter and harpist.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Inherent Vice* (2014), Fi1m 78, as Sortilège, who is also the narrator — [page](https://film.one/film/inherent-vice.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016), as Steam Punk Doctor
- *Inherent Vice* (2014), as Sortilège · who is also the narrator — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/inherent-vice.md)
- *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), series, as Caroline Saint-Jacques Renard — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md)
- *Portlandia* (2011), series, as Harpist

## Gallery

- ![Joanna Newsom (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-04479dadbbe6.jpg) Joanna Newsom (2010) — Rob D from Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Joanna_Newsom_%284609671640%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_%284609671640%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joanna Newsom (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-e8c42e9dc264.jpg) Joanna Newsom (2010) — Rob D from Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Joanna_Newsom_%284609659740%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_%284609659740%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of September 2010 Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-e3189916c738.jpg) Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of September 2010 Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of — Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Joanna_Newsom_%285005637874%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_%285005637874%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photo by Tristan Loper This image may be used freely per Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ • You must  (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-424b2fc7f4c2.jpg) Photo by Tristan Loper This image may be used freely per Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ • You must  (2010) — Tristan Loper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Joanna_Newsom_20100729-00117_%2828057336883%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_20100729-00117_%2828057336883%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of September 2010 Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-4591125a6a97.jpg) Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of September 2010 Joanna Newsom at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Saturday the 18th of — Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Joanna_Newsom_%285002808774%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_%285002808774%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photo by Tristan Loper This image may be used freely per Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ • You must  (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/5524745/gallery-4ffe10131fca.jpg) Photo by Tristan Loper This image may be used freely per Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ • You must  (2010) — Tristan Loper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Joanna_Newsom_20100729-00134_%2828595714561%29.jpg/1280px-Joanna_Newsom_20100729-00134_%2828595714561%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Shortlist Music Prize 2006: Shortlist Music Prize (nominated), for *Ys*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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