Juliana Canfield

Juliana Canfield is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jess Jordan on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023). She is also known for portraying Beth DeVille on the post-apocalyptic drama series Y: The Last Man (2021) and Janine Harris on the Peacock crime drama series The Calling (2022).

Juliana Canfield
Canfield in 2025
Education	Yale University (BA, MFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2017–present
Relatives	Cass Canfield (great-grandfather)

Canfield received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Stereophonic (2024).

Early life and education

Canfield earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in English and graduated cum laude from Yale College in 2014.^[1] She then attended and graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Acting in 2017. Her great-grandfather was the wealthy book publisher Cass Canfield.^[2] She was a debutante at the French debutante ball Bal des Débutantes in Paris in 2013.^[3]

Career

Canfield played the role of Christina in the 2019 revival of Maria Irene Fornes's play Fefu and Her Friends at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn.^[4] Canfield featured in the recurring role of Kendall Roy's executive assistant, Jess Jordan, in the HBO comedy-drama Succession, first appearing in the show's second episode, and continuing in the role throughout the remainder of the show. Canfield's role as Jordan was highlighted by The Ringer critic Jessica MacLeish in an article titled 'An Ode to Jess Jordan' during the second season.^[5] In 2021, Canfield starred as Beth DeVille,^[6] the girlfriend of lead character Yorick Brown, the only male survivor of a virus that wipes out all others with a Y-chromosome, on the FX comic-book adaptation Y: The Last Man.^[7] In 2022, Canfield portrayed an NYPD detective, Janine Harris, in the crime drama The Calling.

In 2024, she made her Broadway debut as Holly in Stereophonic. She was nominated for a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play.^[8]

Personal life

Canfield lives in New York City. She is in a relationship with actor Edmund Donovan.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2018	Plain Fiction	Moon Woman
2019	The Neighbors' Window	The Neighbor	Short film
	South of Bix	Bix	Voice; Short film
	The Assistant	Sasha
2020	On the Rocks	Amanda
2022	NQR	Comedian	Short film
2023	Sis		Short film
2024	Let	Simone	Short film
TBA	Everlasting Yea!	Ellen Craft

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2018–2023	Succession	Jess Jordan	25 episodes
2020	Amazing Stories	Nina Bowman	Episode: "The Rift"
2021	Y: The Last Man	Beth DeVille	Main role
2022	The Calling	Janine Harris[10]	Main role
2023–2024	American Horror Story: Delicate	Talia Thompson	6 episodes

Theatre

Year	Film	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2018	He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box	Kay	Theatre for a New Audience	Off-Broadway	[11]
	The House That Will Not Stand	Maude Lynn Albans	New York Theatre Workshop		[12]
2019	Sunday	Gil	Atlantic Theater Company		[13]
	Fefu and Her Friends	Christina	Theatre for a New Audience		[14]
2023	Stereophonic	Holly	Playwrights Horizons		[15]
2024			John Golden Theatre	Broadway	[16]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
2022	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Succession	Won	[17]
2024				Won	[18]
	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Stereophonic	Nominated	[19]