Jodie Turner-Smith

Jodie Turner-Smith (born 7 September 1986) is a British actress and model. She made her feature film debut in The Neon Demon (2016) and has since acted in Queen & Slim (2019), After Yang (2022), and White Noise (2022). She's also known for her television roles in the TNT series The Last Ship (2017), and the Syfy series Nightflyers (2018). She portrayed the title role in the Channel 5 series Anne Boleyn. (2021). Turner-Smith was born in Peterborough, England to Jamaican parents; she is the only one of her siblings who was not born in Jamaica. She resided in Peterborough until she was 10 years old. After her parents divorced she immigrated to the United States with her mother, brother and half-sister, residing in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Turner-Smith studied finance at the University of Pittsburgh; she graduated in 2008 and subsequently worked at a bank. She has lived in Los Angeles since 2009. In 2009, a mutual friend introduced Turner-Smith to musician Pharrell Williams after a N.E.R.D. concert. When she told him she was looking to become a writer, he convinced her to become a model and move to Los Angeles.