J Smith-Cameron
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J. Smith-Cameron (born September 7, 1957) is an American actress best known for her supporting roles as Janet Talbot on the television series Rectify and Gerri Kellman on Succession.
Early life and education
Jean Isabel Smith was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the granddaughter of architect Richard Sharp Smith and the niece of architect Richard Sharp Smith. She was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and she was raised there.
She attended Florida State University for a year and was enrolled in the School of Theatre, where she met film director Victor Nuez, who portrayed her as a lead in his film Gal Young 'Un (1979). She also completed acting at HB Studio in New York City.
When told by the Actors' Equity Association that a name, not a girl, could not have the same professional name, she began being recognized as "J. Smith" in college out of fear that her first name, Jeannie, was too girlish, and she added a family name, Cameron.
Personal life
Smith-Cameron is married to playwright, screenwriter, and film producer Kenneth Lonergan. They have one child, Nellie.
Career
In Crimes of the Heart, she made her Broadway debut in August 1982 when she renamed Mia Dillon as "Babe Botrelle" on Crimes of the Heart. In 1989, she appeared in Lend Me a Tenor as "Maggie." Special Awards for the cast of That Play at the Outer Critics Circle. In 1991, she appeared in Our Country's Good on Broadway.
Night Must Fall (1999), Tartuffe (2002), and After the Night and the Music (2005) are among the Broadway credits that have been added to the show.
She has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, including at the Public Theater, the Second Stage Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. In 1994, she appeared in Paul Rudnick's play The Naked Truth Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre. For this performance, she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.
She appeared in Fuddy Meers as Claire from November 1999 to April 2000, for which she was selected for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Sarah, Sarah appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club Off-Broadway production from March to June 2004. She appeared Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre in her husband Kenneth Lonergan's play The Starry Messenger from November to December 2009. She appeared in the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theater productions of Juno and the Paycock from October 2013 to December 2013, as Juno Boyle. Ms. Smith-Cameron imbues her Juno with a sarcastic pragmatism, but she is far more able to fight back the sluggish tides of ill fortune that beset them, according to a New York Times reviewer.
Smith-Cameron began transitioning to more film and television roles later in her life in order to refocus on her family's family life. Janet Talbot, the mother of a death row prisoner, appeared in Sundance TV's Rectify for four seasons. On the HBO series Succession since 2018, she has played lawyer Gerri Kellman, a role that was originally written for a man.
As Bees in Honey Drown (1997), she received a Drama Desk award and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, as well as a Best Actress In A Play Award. Sarah, Sarah (2004) received the Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in the play Our Country's Good, as well as the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.