Jen Tullock | |
|---|---|
 Tullock in 2023 | |
| Alma mater | Millikin University (BFA) |
| Occupations |
|
| Years active | 2007–present |
Jen Tullock is an American actress and writer best known for her role as Devon in Apple TV+'s series Severance [1] and Anita St. Pierre in HBO's Perry Mason . [2]
Tullock is from Louisville, Kentucky. [3] She has a younger brother, Ryan, a professional musician and composer in Nashville, and the bass player in the indie band Tennis. [4] She grew up in Jeffersontown and Crescent Hill. She attended Christian Academy of Louisville however for her final year of school she attended Eastern High School. [5] After graduating high school, she studied at Millikin University and graduated in 2006 with a BFA in Acting. [6]
Tullock moved to Brooklyn in 2007 where she worked as a theatre actress and writer. She also practiced improv, performed one-woman shows, did voice-over work, and commercials. [4] She performed in plays in Chicago and New York, including the world premiere of Frank Winters's On the Head of a Pin at 59E59 St. Theatre. [7]
Along with the rest of the principal cast of Severance, she was nominated for a 2022 SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama. For her role as Anita in season two of HBO's Perry Mason, she was nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actress in a Cable or Network Drama.[ citation needed ]
In 2019, Tullock co-wrote and starred in dramedy Before You Know It , which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and stars Tullock alongside Alec Baldwin, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin, and co-writer Hannah Pearl Utt. Her short with Utt, Partners, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and their feature was a participant in the 2017 Sundance Screenwriter Labs. [8]
Their series Disengaged appeared on Turner's streaming platform Super Deluxe. [9]
In 2020, Tullock created Eggshell, a catalogue of fictional social media videos satirizing suburban white women. [10] Her work as a writer has appeared at NY Stage & Film Festival, [11] Huffington Post Queer Voices, [12] and in the writers' room for Funny of Die original The Coop, in which she also starred. [13]
She is the former co-host and writer of Heritage Radio's food and wine radio show The Morning After. [14] In 2024, she premiered her solo show You Shall Inherit the Earth!, detailing her experience of magical thinking while suffering a stroke. [15] She is a Sundance Feature Film Program Committee mentor and former Sundance screenwriting fellow. [16]
Tullock is gay. [17] On May 11, 2023, she married Marie Ronn in New York. [18]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | King Theodore Live | Gof | Short film |
| 2014 | Jammed | Camera Snob / Hippie | |
| 2015 | Partners | Leigh | Short film; also writer and producer |
| Henry | Henry | Short film | |
| Fils | Gigi | Short film; also writer and producer | |
| Base | Karen | Short film | |
| 2016 | When the Wrong Words Come Out | Marie | Short film; also director and writer |
| Eat Prey | Marina | Short film | |
| 2017 | Hoof | Eva Ward | Short film; also producer |
| 2018 | 6 Balloons | Bianca | |
| Red Light | Ruth | Short film | |
| 2019 | Before You Know It | Jackie Gurner | Also writer |
| Long Time Listener, First Time Caller | Debbie | Short film | |
| 2022 | Spirited | Wendy | |
| Love, Me | Trish | Short film; also producer | |
| 2023 | Cora Bora |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Lofty Dreams | Chlois | 2 episodes |
| 2015–2016 | Disenganged | Sidney | Main role; also writer and executive producer |
| 2016 | Casual | Diane | Episode: "Trivial Pursuit" |
| Roadies | Logan the Eraser Girl | Episode: "The Corporate Gig" | |
| 2017 | Virtually Mike and Nora | Sue | Episode: "Suicidal Deer" |
| Budding Prospects | Martha | Television movie | |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | Brunch Patron #3 | Episode: "Never Wait for Seconds!" | |
| SMILF | Morgan | Episode: "Family-Sized Popcorn & a Can of Wine" | |
| 2018 | Door No. 1 | Margo | Episode: "Ten Year" |
| 2019 | Bless This Mess | Monique | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Best Seller | Cindy Silver | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| The Coop | Iwona | Main role; also writer | |
| 2022–present | Severance | Devon Scout-Hale | Main role |
| 2023 | The L Word: Generation Q | Kimmy | Episode: "Looking Ahead" |
| Perry Mason | Anita St. Pierre | 7 episodes |
| Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | New York City Independent Film Festival | Best Actress | Partners | Won | [19] |
| 2022 | Peabody Awards | Entertainment | Severance | Won | [20] |
| 2023 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | [21] | |
| 2024 | Astra Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Drama | Perry Mason | Nominated | [22] |
Danielle Riley Keough is an American actress and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She made her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie. Keough subsequently starred in the independent thriller The Good Doctor (2011), before being cast in a minor role in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike (2012). She appeared in her first big-budget release in the action feature Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018). Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series.
Euphemia LatiQue"Tika" Sumpter is an American actress and producer. Sumpter began her career as the host of Best Friend's Date. From 2005 to 2010, she appeared in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. In 2010, she made her film debut in Stomp the Yard: Homecoming and later featured in supporting roles for What's Your Number? (2011), Sparkle (2012), and A Madea Christmas (2013).
Jenni Olson is a writer, archivist, historian, consultant, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She co-founded the pioneering LGBT website PlanetOut.com. Her two feature-length essay films — The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her work as an experimental filmmaker and her expansive personal collection of LGBTQ film prints and memorabilia were acquired in April 2020 by the Harvard Film Archive, and her reflection on the last 30 years of LGBT film history was published as a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema from Oxford University Press in 2021. In 2020, she was named to the Out Magazine Out 100 list. In 2021, she was recognized with the prestigious Special TEDDY Award at the Berlin Film Festival. She also campaigned to have a barrier erected on the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent suicides.
Marielle Stiles Heller is an American director, screenwriter, and actress. She is best known for directing the films The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), as well as acting in The Queen's Gambit (2020).
Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
The Case Against 8 is an American documentary film, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. Directed and produced by Ben Cotner and Ryan White, the film documents the legal battle to overturn California's Proposition 8, focusing in particular on behind-the-scenes footage of David Boies and Theodore Olson during the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case.
Sydney Freeland is a Native American (Navajo) filmmaker. She wrote and directed the film Drunktown's Finest (2014), which garnered numerous acclaims after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Her second film, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, debuted at Sundance and was released on Netflix in 2017; her third, Rez Ball, released in 2024.
Melissa Barrera Martínez is a Mexican actress. She began her career playing roles in the Mexican telenovelas Siempre tuya Acapulco (2013) and Tanto amor (2015), and then the series Club de Cuervos (2017). Barrera transitioned to Hollywood in 2018, earning recognition with the series Vida (2018–2020) and the musical film In the Heights (2021). For playing Sam Carpenter in the slasher films Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023), as well as leading the horror-comedies Abigail and Your Monster, she established herself as a scream queen.
Quinn Shephard is an American actress, writer, producer, director, and film editor. She played the roles of Donna Malone in the Christmas comedy Unaccompanied Minors and Morgan Sanders in the television series Hostages. In 2017, her feature film directorial debut, Blame, screened at several film festivals and earned critical attention.
Erica Tremblay is a Native American filmmaker known primarily for her documentaries.
Victoria Pedretti is an American actress. She gained wide recognition for starring in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), which established her as a scream queen. She earned further recognition for playing Love Quinn in the Netflix thriller series You (2019–2023). For these roles, she received nominations at the Critics' Choice and Saturn Awards.
Before You Know It is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Hannah Pearl Utt. It was co-written by, and stars, Utt and Jen Tullock. Judith Light, Mike Colter, Mandy Patinkin, and Alec Baldwin appear in supporting roles. It was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Perry Mason is an American period drama television series created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald for HBO. Based on the character of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner, the series stars Matthew Rhys in the title role and premiered on June 21, 2020.
Molly Gordon is an American actress, screenwriter and director. She has appeared in the drama TV series Animal Kingdom (2016–2018), and comedy films Life of the Party (2018), Booksmart (2019), and Good Boys (2019). In 2023, she co-directed, co-wrote and starred in the musical comedy film Theater Camp, and took on a recurring role as Claire on the FX series The Bear (2023–present).
Numa Perrier is a Haitian-American actress, artist, director, writer, and producer. She is a co-founder of Black&Sexy TV and started her production company titled, "House of Numa". Her debut feature film, Jezebel, premiered at SXSW in 2019. Her sophomore film, the Netflix romantic comedy The Perfect Find premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it received the Audience Award for Narrative Film.
Sophie Hyde is an Australian film director, writer, and producer based in Adelaide, South Australia. She is co-founder of Closer Productions and known for her award-winning debut fiction film, 52 Tuesdays (2013) and the comedy drama Animals (2019). She has also made several documentaries, including Life in Movement (2011), a documentary about dancer and choreographer Tanja Liedtke, and television series, such as The Hunting (2019). Her latest film, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2022. Her upcoming film Jimpa stars Olivia Colman and John Lithgow.
Severance is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Dan Erickson, and executive produced and primarily directed by Ben Stiller. It stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette. The plot follows Mark Scout, an employee of the fictional corporation Lumon Industries who agrees to a "severance" program in which his non-work memories are separated from his work memories.
Hannah Pearl Utt is an American filmmaker and actress best known for the 2019 film Before You Know It and the 2023 film Cora Bora.
| Authority control databases: Artists |
|---|
