J. Smith-Cameron

J Smith-Cameron is a Tony Award-nominated stage, film, and television actress whose career has spanned over four decades. Smith-Cameron is widely recognized for her work on the acclaimed HBO series “Succession,” which completed its fourth season in 2023. Her portrayal of “Gerri Kellman,” Waystar Royco’s General Counsel, garnered Smith-Cameron a Critics Choice Award nomination and has quickly become a fan favorite in the Emmy® Award-winning series.

Smith-Cameron starred in Blumhouse and Focus Feature’s thriller Vengeance, as the directorial debut of B.J. Novak. Smith-Cameron is set to appear opposite Novak, Issa Rae, and Ashton Kutcher. The darkly comic thriller follows Ben Manalowitz, a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl.

In film, Smith-Cameron most recently starred in the Sundance-winner Christina Choe’s film Nancy opposite Andrea Riseborough, Steve Buscemi, and John Leguizamo. Her striking portrayal of a mother whose child goes missing three decades prior garnered her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress. Smith-Cameron’s wide range of film credits include Gal Young Un (1979), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Harriet the Spy (1996), You Can Count On Me (2000), Margaret (2011), No Pay, Nudity (2016), and Christine (2016). On television, Smith-Cameron is also well known as a series regular on SundanceTV’s “Rectify” as well as her recurring roles on HBO’s “True Blood” and “Divorce.”

Smith-Cameron’s Broadway credits include Lend Me a Tenor (1989), Our Country’s Good (1991) for which she was nominated for a Tony® Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Night Must Fall (1999), Tartuffe (2002), and Elaine May’s After the Night and the Music (2005). Her extensive Off-Broadway work includes As Bees in Honey Drown (1997), for which she won an Obie Award and earned a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Fuddy Meers (1999), for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, Sarah, Sarah (2004), The Starry Messenger (2009), Sorry (2012), Juno and the Paycock (2013), for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and was the recipient of the 2013 Joe E. Callaway Award, and Peace for Mary Frances (2018). 

Smith-Cameron resides in New York City with her husband director, playwright, and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, and their daughter.