Biography
Jean Isabel Smith (born September 7, 1957), credited professionally as J. Smith-Cameron, is an American actress. She spent a majority of her career in theatre but began transitioning to film and television later in life. She is known for her supporting roles as Janet Talbot on the television series Rectify and Gerri Kellman on the HBO series Succession. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2022.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Debaters
2025
In a debate chamber, affluent high schoolers argue a bill on minimum wage in an effort to impress two working-class adult judges.
Turtles All the Way Down
2024
as Professor Abbott
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
The Year Between
2023
as Sherri
Inspired by true events, college sophomore Clemence Miller is coming home to the suburbs and a bedroom in her family's basement. After dropping out of...
Vengeance
2022
as Sharon Shaw
A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
White Wedding
2021
as Clementine
Amidst a racially tense Southern wedding, a biracial bride has the chance to confront her estranged Black father after accidentally hiring his wedding...
Nancy
2018
as Ellen
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable do...
No Pay, Nudity
2016
as Debra
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy...
Christine
2016
as Peg Chubbuck
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Everything All at Once
2015
as Susan
After a weekend home with her family, a young woman takes a suffocating ride to the train station with her Mother, Aunt and Grandmother. They navigate...
Like Sunday, Like Rain
2014
as Mary
A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.
Man on a Ledge
2012
as Psychiatrist
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H...
Margaret
2011
as Joan Cohen
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people...
A Very Serious Person
2006
as Carol
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old gran...
Bittersweet Place
2005
as Violet
The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipolar Pappy, and Susannah, who tries to keep the fami...
You Can Count on Me
2000
as Mabel
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999
as Barbara Lang
Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral that will not only affect her but take everyone aro...
A Midwife's Tale
1998
as Mrs. Howard
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha ...
In & Out
1997
as Trina Paxton
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
Arresting Gena
1997
as Caroline Lee
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
The First Wives Club
1996
as Miss Sullivan
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...
The Proprietor
1996
as Texan
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
A Modern Affair
1996
as Diane
A Modern Affair is an independent feature directed by Vern Oakley and produced by Tribe Pictures. Starring Stanley Tucci and Lisa Eichhorn, the film's...
Harriet the Spy
1996
as Mrs. Welsch
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her ...
Sabrina
1995
as Carol
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of pr...
Let It Be Me
1995
as Clarice
Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Bud's Wife
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...
Jeffrey
1995
as Sharon
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect ...
She Led Two Lives
1994
as Angela Anderson
A married woman is reunited with her childhood sweetheart, and marries him too, forcing her to live two lives at once.
That Night
1992
as Carol Bloom
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Ginny
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...
Gal Young 'Un
1979
as Elly (The Gal Young 'Un)
Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lyi...