J. Smith-Cameron Biography
Jean Isabel Smith, credited professionally as J. Smith-Cameron is an American actress. She gained prominence for her roles in the television series Rectify 2013-2016 and Succession 2018-2023, the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She spent a majority of her career in theatre, making her Broadway debut in the 1982 Beth Henley play Crimes of the Heart.
How old is J. Smith-Cameron? – Age
She is 66 years old as of September 2023. Smith was born on September 7, 157, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
J. Smith-Cameron Height
The star stands at a height of 5 feet 3 ¼ inches tall.
Who are J. Smith-Cameron parents? – Family
Jean is the daughter of architect Richard Sharp Smith and granddaughter of architect Richard Sharp Smith. Although according to sources, the actress has not revealed her mother’s identity. Smith was raised in Greenville, South Carolina. Isabel attended Florida State University for one year and was enrolled in its School of Theatre, where she met film director Victor Nunez, who cast as lead in his film Gal Young ‘Un 1979. She also studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.
Is J. Smith-Cameron married? – Husband
Smith-Cameron is married to playwright screenwriter, and film director Kenneth Lonergan. They have one daughter, Nellie.
J. Smith-Cameron Career
The actress made her Broadway debut in August 1982, replacing Mia Dillon as Babe Botrelle in Crimes of the Heart. She appeared as Maggie in the original Broadway cast of Lend Me a Tenor in 1989. The cast of that play won an Outer Critics Circle Award, Special Awards. She appeared in the Broadway production of Our Country’s Good in 1991, where she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.
The American actress appeared in many Off-Broadway plays, including at the Public Theater, the Second Stage Theatre and Playwrights Horizons. She appeared in the Paul Rudnick play The Naked Truth Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1994, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. From November 1999 through April 2000, she appeared as Clare in Fuddy Meers at New York City Center, Stage II, for which she was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Actress in a Play. In March through June 2004, she appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club Off-Broadway production of Sarah, Sarah.
From October 2013 to December 2013, Isabel starred in the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theater production of Juno and the Paycock as Juno Boyle. Later she transitioned to more film and television roles to focus on her family. She portrayed seven different characters in all three primary shows of the Law & Order franchise. Smith played Janet Talbot, the mother of a death row inmate, in Sundance TV’s Rectify for four seasons. She played lawyer Gerri Kellman, a role originally written for a man, on the HBO series Succession 2018 to 2023.
Isabel 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 and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play. She was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Sarah, Sarah 2004.
J. Smith-Cameron Net Worth
Her net worth as of 2024, is $6 million.
J. Smith-Cameron Movie
1979 – Gal Young Un
1987 – 84 Charing Cross Road
1992 – That Night
1995 – A Modern Affair
1995 – Let it Be Me
1995 – Sabrina
1996 – Harriet the Spy
1999 – The Rage: Carrie 2
2005 – You Can Count on Me
2011 – Margaret
2012 – Man on a Ledge
2014 – Like Sunday, Like Rain
2016 – Christine
2018 – Nancy
2022 – Vengeance
2022 – The Year Between
J. Smith-Cameron TV Shows
2003 – K Street
2010 – The Big C
2011 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2014 – Madam Secretary
2015 – The Good Wife
2018 – Mozart in the Jungle
2022 – Fleishman Is in Trouble
2023 – Waco: The Aftermath
