Sally Field meets Diane Lane and Amy Brenneman.
Ophthalmologist, ophthalmic surgeon, and lifelong actor — now fully committed to film, television, and theater. Best Actress, Delaware Valley Film Festival.
Jody Seymour spent more than thirty years restoring people's eyesight — in academic medicine, in private practice, and aboard Orbis, the Flying Eye Hospital, operating across Africa and Asia. Acting never stopped pulling at her sleeve through all of it.
Her work radiates grounded expertise and quiet warmth — a balance of clinical instinct and lived empathy that draws audiences in. Every role she inhabits carries the weight of someone who has spent decades reading people, diagnosing what's beneath the surface, and holding steady under pressure. When the moment demands composure, she doesn't perform it — she's spent decades living it.
Her film work includes lead roles in Always Will (Apple), for which she won Best Actress at the Delaware Valley Film Festival, and Drown the Clown (Prime Video), directed by Justin Viggiano. She has appeared in lead theater roles at Gypsy Theater and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and holds a recurring credit on Wisdom Tree (Ebru TV).
She leads with intelligence and lands with heart. Her casting range is specific and earned: the warm therapist who notices more than she lets on, the steely litigator who controls every room, the seasoned physician, the society wife whose composure may be quietly cracking. These aren't types she studied — they're drawn from a life lived at a high level of expertise and responsibility.
Jody trained at Cornell University, the Wilma Studio School, Melonie Mack Acting Studio, John Rosenfeld Acting Studio, and on-camera programs in Philadelphia and New York, including the Advanced Industry Workshop at One on One Studios in NY.
A storyteller shaped first by medicine and sharpened by craft, Jody Seymour brings depth, precision, and heart to every role she inhabits.
Available for film, television, and theater. Local hire in New York and Philadelphia. For casting inquiries, reach Jody directly.