Jordana Spiro

Jordana Spiro is an American actress, director, and writer. As an actress, she has starred in numerous films and television series including Netflix's Ozark and TBS comedy television program My Boys.

Her debut feature Night Comes On, which she directed and co-wrote (with Angelica Nwandu) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. She developed the film at the Sundance Institute's Directors, Screenwriters, and Composers Labs, and through a Cinereach development grant. Her short Skin premiered at Sundance and won the Women In Film Productions award. Skin also won the Honorable Mention Award at SXSW, showed at Telluride, Palm Springs, and AFI among others. Spiro earned her MFA in Film from Columbia University in 2015 and received the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Fellowship. She studied drama at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York and was selected to join the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin.

Early life and education Spiro was born and raised in New York City. She is Jewish. Spiro has a brother and three sisters. She studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In fall 2009, she began the MFA Program in Filmmaking at Columbia University. She finished the degree in 2015. Spiro currently splits her time between Los Angeles and New York.

Career Spiro's first film role was as Catherine Reece in the 1999 film, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, a direct-to-DVD prequel to the 1996 film From Dusk till Dawn.

In 2000 Spiro starred in her first TV series, the USA crime drama The Huntress. Co-star Annette O'Toole and Spiro played mother and daughter bounty hunters, based on the lives of Dottie And Brandi Thorson. The series ran for 28 episodes, concluding in 2001.

Spiro starred in the TBS original comedy series My Boys. She played the role of P.J., a twenty-something "guy's girl", and sports reporter who tries to find romance within her world that is dominated by male friends. The series wrapped its fourth and final season on TBS in 2010.

Spiro also appeared in the 2009 comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard alongside Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms and Rob Riggle, and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The Goods was directed by Neal Brennan.

Additional credits include The Year of Getting to Know Us, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance film festival, IFC's Alone with Her, as well as guest appearances on Cold Case, Out of Practice, and CSI: NY.

Spiro was scheduled to star in the planned 2010–11 television series Love Bites, but fell out of the role in June 2010 due to other contractual obligations. Spiro was also cast alongside Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman in the thriller, Trespass. She was a guest star on the Showtime 2011 season of Dexter. For the 2012–13 season, she had the lead role in the Fox-TV medical/crime drama The Mob Doctor.

Spiro starred as Rachel Garrison in the Netflix crime drama Ozark (2017-2022).

In February 2024, Spiro joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Shannah Sykes, an FBI agent on loan to the titular police squad.

Personal life She is married to Matthew Spitzer with whom she has a daughter.

Filmography Film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1995 Maybe This Time Chase Episode: "The Other Mother"1996 Her Last Chance Waitress TV movie If These Walls Could Talk Alison (segment "1974") TV movie 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Callie Anderson Episode: "Reptile Boy"1998 Beverly Hills, 90210 Carrie Knox Episode: "Dealer's Choice" City Guys Zoey Episode: "A Guy and a Goth"Silk StalkingsFreddie BentonEpisode: "Rage" One World Alex 3 episodes 1999 Undressed Merrith 3 episodes 2000–2001 Brandi Thorson 28 episodes 2004 Beck and Call Jemma TV movie2005 CSI: NY Tavia Greenburg Episode: "Tanglewood" Cold Case Suzanne Episode: "Revolution" JAG Navy Lt. Catherine Graves 3 episodes Out of Practice Bianca/Roberta 2 episodes 2006 Kitchen Confidential Alison Episode: "Praise Be Praise" 2006–2010 My Boys P.J. Franklin 49 episodes2011 Harry's Law Rachael Miller 7 episodes Dexter Beth Dorsey 2 episodes Lost and Found Jo TV movie 2012–2013 The Mob Doctor Dr. Grace Devlin 13 episodes 2013–2014 The Good Wife Detective Jenna Villette 4 episodes 2014 Tyrant Dana Episode: "Pilot" 2015–2016 Royal Pains Jen 3 episodes 2015–2016, 2020 Blindspot Sarah Weller 11 episodes 2016 The Wilding Margaret Hayes TV movie 2017–2018, 2022 Ozark Rachel Garrison 24 episodes 2020 Evil Ema Serpagli Episode: "Justice x 2" 2022, 2024 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Delia Hackman / Special Agent Shannah Sykes 6 episodes2025 Criminal Minds: Evolution Tessa Lebrun Episode: The Disciple The Savant Upcoming miniseries