Jennifer Ferrin

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Jennifer Ferrin
Born (1979-02-25) February 25, 1979 (age 45)
Lawrenceville, Georgia, U.S.
Education University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA)
Years active2002–present
Spouse
Zachary Bliss
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(m. 2014)​

Jennifer Ferrin (born February 25, 1979) is an American actress. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Ferrin was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She attended Brookwood High where she was the lead in many high school plays and was a member of the choir. Upon her graduation from high school, Ferrin attended the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.

Career

Ferrin played the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's character Esther in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film The Locket. [3] She guest starred in the 2002 season finale of Dawson's Creek . Ferrin's most notable role to date is that of Jennifer Munson Kasnoff Donovan on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns , played from 2003 to 2006. She was nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy Award. [4] [5]

In 2006, she landed a recurring role on the primetime show 3 lbs . Ferrin was one of the four actors starring in the U.S. premiere productions of The 39 Steps , Patrick Barlow's stage adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film, in Boston in 2007 [6] and New York in 2008 [7]

Ferrin also played Detective Sam Tyler's mother in the American version of Life On Mars . In January 2011, she began her role of Dana Faraday on the NBC superhero drama series The Cape . She also had a two episode stint on Royal Pains and was recurring character Molly on The Following . She portrayed Rebecca Mason, the deceased wife of lead character Tom Mason (Noah Wyle), in a dream episode of the TNT science-fiction drama series Falling Skies , on July 21, 2013; Ferrin appeared again on Falling Skies for the series' fifth-season premiere on June 28, 2015.

She became a series regular in the third season of AMC's Hell on Wheels . [8] [9]

In Steven Soderbergh's Mosaic , a murder mystery released in 2017 as an interactive iOS/Android app and then in 2018 as an HBO television drama, [10] Ferrin played Petra Neill, a point-of-view character. She also was in ABCs cancelled time travel series Time After Time where she played a doctor trying to develop her father's research further. [9]

As of 2021, she began a recurring role on CBS' The Equalizer , playing Avery Grafton, a DA who is determined to seek out and stop Robyn McCall's vigilantism as it also threatens her political future.

Personal life

Ferrin is married to interior designer Zachary Bliss, whom she met in 2009 and wed in 2014. The couple reside in Amagansett, New York. [11]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010NonamesCori
2010 Sex and the City 2 Patience

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Dawson's Creek Nervous girlEpisode: "Swan Song"
2002 The Locket Young EstherTelevision film
2003–2006 As the World Turns Jennifer Munson Donovan 264 episodes
2006 Rescue Me Sarah2 episodes
2006 3 lbs Penny Marx
2007 The Kill Point Chloe8 episodes
2008–2009 Life on Mars Ruth Tyler / Rose Tyler5 episodes
2009 Fringe Susan Pratt / Nancy LewisEpisode: "The Road Not Taken"
2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Rena WestEpisode: "Unstable"
2009 Bunker Hill ADA Chase CabotTelevision film
2010 White Collar Melissa CartwrightEpisode: "Vital Signs"
2010 Nurse Jackie Georgia2 episodes
2011 The Cape Dana Faraday10 episodes [12]
2011 Boardwalk Empire Carolyn RothsteinEpisode: "What Does the Bee Do?"
2011 Unforgettable Janine BarlowEpisode: "Spirited Away"
2011, 2012 Royal Pains Kate Murray2 episodes
2012 The Good Wife Elaine MiddletonEpisode: "Bitcoin for Dummies"
2012 Elementary Rebecca EllisonEpisode: "While You Were Sleeping"
2013Over/UnderHaileyTelevision film
2013 Deception Hannay2 episodes
2013 The Following Molly5 episodes
2013 Rewind Dr. Lyndsay BryceTelevision film
2013 Person of Interest Natalie BoalEpisode: "The Perfect Mark"
2013Mother's DayGwenTelevision film
2013–2015 Falling Skies Rebecca Mason6 episodes
2013–2016 Hell on Wheels Louise Ellison24 episodes [13] [14]
2014–2015 The Knick Abigail Alford10 episodes
2016 Falling Water Busy4 episodes
2017 Time After Time Brooke Monroe7 episodes
2017–2018 Mosaic Petra Neill9 episodes
2018 Sneaky Pete Joyce Roby8 episodes [15]
2018 Homeland Charlotte2 episodes
2018 Rise Denise Strickland6 episodes
2019 The Passage Elizabeth Lear4 episodes
2019 The Blacklist Anna McMahon8 episodes
2019 Instinct Dr. Alexandra BeckerEpisode: "Stay Gold"
2019 God Friended Me MadelineEpisode: "The Last Grenelle"
2019 Evil Judith LemonheadEpisode: "Exorcism Part 2"
2021–present The Equalizer D.A. Avery GraftonRecurring role, 10 episodes
2022–2024 Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Martha BeasleyRecurring role, 13 episodes [16]
2024 American Horror Stories Lilly MullingEpisode: "X"

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