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Jodi Balfour

ジョディ・バルフォア　/　じょでぃ・ばるふぉあ

Actor from South Africa

October 29, 1987 (age 38)　・　Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Western Cape
actor
film actor

My Take

What fascinates me about Jodi Balfour is the quiet trajectory of her career. From Cape Town to a Canadian Screen Award for Bomb Girls, then to playing Ellen Wilson on For All Mankind, a character who rises from astronaut to president across decades, she has consistently chosen roles that demand restraint over spectacle. Her performances work through stillness: a held glance, a swallowed sentence. I think that subtlety is why she keeps landing prestige projects without ever becoming tabloid material. She is the rare actor who lets the writing breathe, and in an era of overacting, that discipline reads as quietly radical to me.

Overview

Jodi Balfour is a South African actress (born in 1987 or 1988). She won a Canadian Screen Award for her performance as Gladys Witham in the series Bomb Girls (2012–2013). She has since starred as Ellen Waverly Wilson in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind (2019–2023).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jodi Balfour
Name (Japanese): ジョディ・バルフォア
Reading: じょでぃ・ばるふぉあ
Born: October 29, 1987 (age 38)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rabbit
Origin: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / film actor

2. Background

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Junior high: Private
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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jodiannebalfour/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi%20Balfour

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