Deborah Ann Woll

Deborah Ann Woll (born February 7, 1985) is an American actress. She played Jessica Hamby in the HBO drama series True Blood (2008–2014), which earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She portrayed Karen Page in five projects within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Daredevil (2015–2018) and Daredevil: Born Again (2025–present). Her film roles include Mother's Day, Seven Days in Utopia (2011), Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011), Catch .44 (2011), Ruby Sparks (2012), Meet Me in Montenegro (2014), The Automatic Hate (2015), Escape Room (2019) and its sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021), and Queen of the Ring (2024).

In 2022, she provided the voice and motion capture of Faye in the video game God of War Ragnarök. She will reprise the character in a leading role in the upcoming game, God of War Laufey. She has appeared in multiple tabletop gaming web series, served as Dungeon Master for several actual play series, and created actual play series such as Relics and Rarities (2019), Children of Éarte (2022), and Tales From Woodcreek (2025).

Early life Woll was born on February 7, 1985 in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Her father, Peter L. Woll, is an architect, and her mother, Catherine "Cathy" , is a teacher at the Berkeley Carroll School. Woll is of German and Irish descent. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institute, the USC School of Theatre—where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2007 —and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career

Acting Woll began her career with guest starring roles in several television series, including Life (2007), ER (2008), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008), My Name Is Earl (2008), and The Mentalist (2008), and had a supporting role in the action-adventure television film Aces 'N' Eights (2008).

In 2008, Woll landed her breakout role as Bill Compton's vampire progeny, Jessica Hamby, in the HBO fantasy drama series True Blood. She originally joined as a recurring character in the first season, but was promoted to a regular cast member for the second season onwards. In 2009, she and her True Blood co-stars won the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series at the 14th annual ceremony. At the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards which took place the year following, she and her co-stars were nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Woll maintained the role of Jessica until the series' ending in 2014.

In 2009, she made a guest appearance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portraying a young woman who is found alive after being reported missing by her boyfriend. In 2010, Woll made her feature film debut in the psychological horror Mother's Day. In 2011, she starred in the supernatural thriller Little Murder, the sports drama Seven Days in Utopia, the action film Catch .44, and the comedy-drama Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.

In 2012, Woll made a brief appearance in the romantic comedy-drama film Ruby Sparks. The year following, she performed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in the play Parfumerie. That same year, she joined the cast of the drama film The Automatic Hate. In 2015, she starred in the independent romantic drama film Forever.

She has portrayed Karen Page in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically as the female lead in Daredevil (2015–2018) and as a recurring actor in The Punisher (2017–2019) and The Defenders (2017). Daredevil earned her a nomination for a Saturn Award. In 2018, Woll starred in the comedy film Silver Lake. She also appeared in the action thriller film Escape Room in 2019, a role she reprised in its sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021). The former was a major commercial success, surpassing initial expectations and debuting with $18.2 million, and finishing with $155.7 million.

Woll provided the voice of Faye in the video game God of War: Ragnarok in 2022. This was also Woll's first role where she performed the motion capture for a character. In 2022, she performed as Katherine in director Shana Cooper's stage production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Globe in San Diego. In 2026, she again reprised the role in the Special Presentation The Punisher: One Last Kill. and has been interviewed by D&D Beyond and Dragon Talk. She has appeared in several Dungeons & Dragons charity specials, as both a player and a Dungeon Master, produced by Lost Odyssey Events. and appeared as a guest player in Critical Role second campaign. Greg Tito, in the book Welcome to Dragon Talk (2022), noted that Woll for a long time was "reluctant to do anything publicly with" Dungeons & Dragons, however, "Force Grey cracked the protective shell she had separating the game from her acting career, and she fully embraced her skills as a storyteller and a Dungeon Master". In 2019, she was the Dungeon Master of the Geek & Sundry show Relics and Rarities, which used a modified version of D&D. Tito called the show "really magical" and thought it created "something special" with "a brilliant execution blending imagination and TV production". In 2022, it was announced that Woll would be the Dungeon Master for the ongoing D&D actual play show Children of Éarte. It premiered in March 2022 on the Demiplane Twitch channel. Woll was nominated for the "Best Game Master (Actual Play Video)" award at the 2023 New Jersey Web Festival for her work on Children of Éarte; the show itself was also nominated for "Best Overlay Design (Actual Play Video)" and "Outstanding Actual Play (Video)". In 2023, Woll was the author of the D&D adventure module Heroes' Feast: Saving the Children's Menu released digitally on D&D Beyond. She also appeared as a guest player in the show Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! on the Dungeons & Dragons Adventures FAST channel which premiered in November 2023. Woll was then a consultant on the Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) for the revised 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

In 2025, Woll and Ed Gass-Donnelly created the actual play Tales From Woodcreek for The Dungeon Dudes YouTube channel with funding from Ontario Creates; Woll was also the show's dungeon master. Corey Plante of Polygon noted that before shows such as Dimension 20 and Critical Role added soundstages and full set-design, Woll's 2019 "Relics & Rarities introduced immersive set design and bespoke physical artifacts and puzzles" and the "spiritual successor" Tales From Woodcreek takes that "one step further" by transforming the historic Black Creek Pioneer Village "into a bonafide D&D escape room". A second season is in development.

Personal life Woll began dating E. J. Scott in December 2007. They married in December 2018. Scott has choroideremia, a condition that ultimately results in blindness, and Woll uses her platform to help raise awareness of the disease. She has said that Scott's attitude towards his disability has inspired courage in her own, admittedly less life-changing, battle with celiac disease.

Filmography +KeyDenotes project that has not yet been released Film Year Title Role Notes 2008 La Cachette Sarah Short film 2010 Mother's Day Lydia Koffin Catch .44 Dawn 2014 Meet Me in Montenegro Wendy 2018 Silver Lake Mary Escape Room Amanda Harper Ida Red Jeanie Walker 2022 Willing to Go There Margaret Short film 2023 Adventure Never Ends: A Tabletop Saga Herself Documentary 2024 Queen of the Ring Gladys Gillem In production

Television Year Title Role Notes 2007 Life Nancy Wiscinski Episode: "Powerless" 2008 Aces 'N' Eights Terrified Woman Television film ER Aurora Quill Episode: "Owner of a Broken Heart" CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Waitress Stephane Episode: "For Gedda" My Name Is Earl Greta 2 episodes The Mentalist Kerry Sheehan Episode: "Red Brick and Ivy" 2008–2014 True Blood Jessica Hamby Main role; 70 episodes 2015–2018 Daredevil Karen Page Main role; 39 episodes 2017–2019 The Punisher Main role; 5 episodes 2026 The Punisher: One Last Kill Disney+ television special

Web series Year Title Role Notes Series 2017 Force Grey: Lost City of Omu Jamilah, human barbarian Main role; 17 episodes. Dungeons & Dragons show presented by Geek & Sundry, Nerdist and Wizards of the Coast. 2019–present GameNight! Herself Guest role; 84 episodes. Presented by BoardGameGeek. Legends of the MultiverseSunnyMain role; 20 episodes. Presented by Dungeons & Dragons. 2022–2024 Children of Éarte Dungeon Master Main role; 76 episodes. Presented by Demiplane. 2023 Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! Herself Guest role; 3 episodes. Presented on the Dungeons & Dragons Adventures FAST channel. 2025 Tales From Woodcreek Dungeon Master / Rebecca Laske Co-creator & main role. Presented on The Dungeon Dudes YouTube channel. Events and one-shots 2018 The Witch of Briarcleft Dungeon Master Presented by Wizards of the Coast at the Stream of Many Eyes event. 2019 Lost Odyssey: The Book of Knowledge Dungeon Master Presented by Geek & Sundry, Roll20, and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support the Autism Society of America. 2020 Celebrity RPG: Wasteland 3 Edition Mickey Presented by Geek & Sundry and Nerdist; sponsored by Xbox Game Pass. Lost Odyssey: ChampionsHerself Presented by GameStop and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Treehouse. Deborah's Game Dungeon Master Presented by Wizards of the Coast at the D&D Live 2020: Roll w/ Advantage event. Lost Odyssey: Night of Dread Herself Presented by Dungeons & Dragons and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Extra Life. 2021 SURVIVORS: Custom RPG One-shot Dungeon Master Presented by Skybound Entertainment; set in the universe of The Walking Dead: Survivors. Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! Herself Presented by Wizards of the Coast and G4 at the D&D Live 2021 event. The Dungeon & The Dragon Mechabus Presented by Wizards of the Coast at the D&D Celebration 2021 event. Lost Odyssey: Promised Gold Dungeon Master Presented by Dungeons & Dragons, IGN, and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Extra Life. 2023 Lost Odyssey: The Red Scribe Marigold Grubb Presented by The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Extra Life. 2025 Lost Odyssey: Godfall Audrey Presented by Geek & Sundry, Demiplane and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Extra Life.

Video games Year Title Role 2022 God of War Ragnarök Faye 2027

Stage Year Title Role Venue 2013 Parfumerie Amalia Balash Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 2023Angels in America Part One: Millennium ApproachesHarper PittArena Stage

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