Jodie Turner-Smith is a British actress and model known for her work in The Last Ship (2017), Nightflyers (2018), Queen & Slim (2019), and Without Remorse (2021).
She made her acting debut in 2013 as a siren in True Blood.
Her performance led to her playing numerous minor roles in films and music videos between 2013 and 2017.
Her rise to prominence came in 2018, after she starred as Sgt. Azima Kandie in the 2017–2018 season of the TNT series The Last Ship, after which she had a major role as Melantha Jhirl in the 2018 Syfy/Netflix series Nightflyers.
She then went on to star as Josie in the Cinemax series Jett, which premiered in June 2019 and portrayed the role of Queen in the 2019 thought provoking drama film Queen & Slim, opposite Daniel Kaluuya.
In January 2021, she was cast as Éile, a warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess, in The Witcher: Blood Origin, a six-episode limited series prequel to The Witcher.
But barely four months later, Netflix announced that she had departed the project due to scheduling conflicts and a change in the production schedule.
In 2022, she has starred in The Independent and Murder Mystery.
