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- Birthday: 1992-02-18
- Born Place: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Juliana Canfield
Juliana Canfield is an American actress, born on February 18, 1992, in Washington, D.C. She pursued higher education at Yale University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, graduating cum laude from Yale College in 2014, and subsequently obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the Yale School of Drama in 2017. Her great-grandfather was the book publisher Cass Canfield. Canfield is widely recognized for her television roles, most notably as Jess Jordan, Kendall Roy's executive assistant, on the critically acclaimed HBO series Succession (2018–2023), for which she won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Her other main television roles include Beth DeVille on the post-apocalyptic drama Y: The Last Man (2021) and NYPD Detective Janine Harris on the Peacock crime drama The Calling (2022). In film, her credits include The Assistant (2019) and On the Rocks (2020). Canfield made her Broadway debut in the play Stereophonic (2024) as Holly, a performance that earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She has also appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including Fefu and Her Friends, Sunday, and The House That Will Not Stand.
