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name: "Jodi Balfour"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jodi-balfour"
roles: []
born: "29 October 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T11:53:58.172990+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."
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# Jodi Balfour

Actor. Born 29 October 1987 in Cape Town, South Africa.

## Details

- **Born:** 29 October 1987, Cape Town, South Africa
- **Active:** 2016–2019
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Balfour, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560029, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3341156/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139901

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*For All Mankind*](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) (66)

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## Biography

Jodi Balfour is a South African actress. She grew up in Cape Town and studied drama at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 2009.

She is known for her role as Gladys Witham in the Canadian series *Bomb Girls* (2012–2013) and the follow-up television film *Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy* (2014), for which she won a Canadian Screen Award. Balfour has also appeared in *The Crown* (2017) as Jackie Kennedy, *Quarry* (2016), *Ted Lasso* (2023) as Jack Danvers, and as Ellen Wilson in the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind* (2019–2023).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *For All Mankind* (2019), Fi1m 66, as Ellen Wilson — [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md)
- *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Jackie Kennedy — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Lilies Not for Me* (2025), as Alice Green
- *Freud's Last Session* (2023), as Dorothy Burlingham
- *Bloom* (2023), as Laurel
- *Ted Lasso* (2020), series, as Jack Danvers — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *The Rest of Us* (2020), as Rachel
- *For All Mankind* (2019), series, as Ellen Wilson — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md)
- *Rellik* (2017), series, as DI Elaine Shepard
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Jackie Kennedy — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Quarry* (2016), series, as Joni
- *Unearthing* (2016), as Fisher Hart
- *Milwaukee* (2015), Beans, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Eadweard* (2015), as Mary
- *Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy* (2014), as Gladys Witham
- *The Husband* (2014), as Claire
- *True Detective* (2014), series, as Lori — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *Afterparty* (2013), as Karen, Producer
- *Bomb Girls* (2012), series, as Gladys Witham
- *Vampire* (2011), as Michaela
- *Final Destination 5* (2011), as Woman
- *The Sinking of the Laconia* (2011), series, as Sarah Fullwood
- *R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour* (2010), series, as Priscilla, Mary (voice)
- *Kongo* (2010), as Johanna Wenz
- *Tower Prep* (2010), series, as Emily Wright
- *V* (2009), series, as V Greeter
- *Sanctuary* (2008), series, as Terry
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, as Melissa
- *Cavegirl* (2002), series, as Drummer
- *Someday It Is*, Acting

## Gallery

- ![Jodi Balfour at the premiere of The Rest of Us, 2019 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/458871/gallery-0b6f116b1b37.jpg) Jodi Balfour at the premiere of The Rest of Us, 2019 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Jodi_Balfour_%282019%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jodi Balfour at the premiere of The Rest of Us, 2019 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/458871/gallery-de72be35c7a9.jpg) Jodi Balfour at the premiere of The Rest of Us, 2019 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_Rest_of_Us_02_%2848734770611%29.jpg/1280px-The_Rest_of_Us_02_%2848734770611%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jodi Balfour](https://film.one/media/person/458871/gallery-2855f2f7e865.jpg) Jodi Balfour — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/The_Rest_of_Us_02_%2848734770611%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jodi Balfour](https://film.one/media/person/458871/gallery-19159a76bd99.jpg) Jodi Balfour — Image via TMDB

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