Morgan Saylor

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Columbia University
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Morgan Frances Saylor (born 1994) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Dana Brody in the Showtime series Homeland (2011–2013). She has also starred in several feature films, including her critically acclaimed portrayal of Leah in the 2016 Sundance film White Girl. Other films include Rob Reiner's Being Charlie (2015), Novitiate (2017), and Blow the Man Down (2019).

Along with the rest of the cast of Homeland, Saylor was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014.

Early life and education

Morgan Frances Saylor[citation needed] was born in 1994[1] in Chicago, Illinois.[2][3] As of 2013, her mother was an employee at REI and her father doing renovations for Starbucks; they are divorced. Saylor moved to Villa Rica, Georgia, at age two, and Decatur, Georgia, at age ten.[2]

As a teenager, Saylor was part of a competitive rock climbing team and was nationally ranked.[2] She graduated from Decatur High School in May 2013 and subsequently moved to New York City to continue acting.[4][5] She attended the University of Chicago for a few years between roles, before transferring to Columbia University School of General Studies, graduating in 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing.[6][7]

Career

Saylor began acting through summer camps and community theater as a child. In fourth grade, she visited Los Angeles for the summer where she booked her first professional job: a voice-over as young Meadow in HBO's hit television series The Sopranos. Saylor played Annie in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant in 2009 and young Claire in Father of Invention in 2010.[2][8]

From 2011 to 2013, Saylor played Dana Brody in the Showtime political thriller television series Homeland. While the show garnered nearly universal praise, especially for its first two seasons,[9] Dana has frequently been labelled one of the worst characters ever written.[10][11][12]

In June 2014, Saylor made her stage debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club as Penny opposite Cherry Jones and Zoe Kazan in When We Were Young and Unafraid, written by Sarah Treem and directed by Pam MacKinnon.[13] Also in 2014, she played Gracie Highsmith in Jamie Marks Is Dead, an adaptation of Christopher Barzak's 2007 novel One for Sorrow, directed by Carter Smith.[14][15]

Saylor played Kevin Costner's character's daughter Julie in the sports drama McFarland, USA, which was released on February 20, 2015.[16][17] She played the role of Leah in White Girl, for which she received great critical praise. The film was written and directed by Elizabeth Wood and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[18][19][20]

Saylor acted alongside Nick Robinson and Common in director Rob Reiner's film Being Charlie.[21] The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in September of that year.[22]

In 2017, Saylor was back at Sundance to premiere the film Novitiate, in which she plays a young nun opposite Melissa Leo, Margaret Qualley and Diana Agron.[23] Later that year she starred in "Anywhere With You" (formerly titled "We The Coyotes") directed by Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via. The film premiered the following year in the ACID section of 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[24]

Saylor's next starring role came in Blow the Man Down, which premiered in 2019 at Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Amazon Studios on March 20, 2020. This film was shot on location in Harpswell, Maine.[25]

Morgan starred opposite Ben Rosenfield in the independent film You Mean Everything to Me, written and directed by Bryan Wizemann, released in cinemas in the US December 2021.[26]

Personal life

Saylor lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant.[27][28][8][29]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Annie
2010 Father of Invention Young Claire
2011 The Greening of Whitney Brown Annie
2014 Jamie Marks Is Dead Gracie Highsmith
2015 McFarland, USA Julie White
2015 Being Charlie Eva
2016 White Girl Leah
2017 Novitiate Sister Evelyn
2018 We the Coyotes Amanda
2019 Blow the Man Down Mary Beth Connolly
2021 You Mean Everything to Me Cassandra
2022 Spoonful of Sugar Millicent
2024 Au fil des saisons Charlie

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2006 The Sopranos Young Meadow 2 episodes ("Join the Club" and "Mayham"), uncredited[citation needed]
2007 K-Ville Lana Roberts 1 episode ("AKA")
2011–2013 Homeland Dana Brody 36 episodes

Theatre

Year Title Role Notes
2014 When We Were Young and Unafraid Penny Manhattan Theatre Club

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Work Result Ref.
2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with cast) Homeland Nominated [30]
2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with cast) Homeland Nominated [31]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Teenagers on telly". New Statesman. November 23, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Van Dusen, Christine (March 2013). "This Story May Contain Spoilers". Atlanta. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Amodio, Joseph V. (July 15, 2014). "'Homeland' actress Morgan Saylor corners the moody teen market, next with 'When We Were Young and Unafraid'". Newsday. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mathews, Dana (January 2013). "'Homeland' Star Morgan Saylor Talks About Her Winning Night at the Golden Globes". Teen Vogue. Condé Nast. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Martin, Denise (October 7, 2013). "Homeland's Morgan Saylor on Dana's Selfies, Sex, and Life Without Brody". Vulture. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pandey, Nichi. "Why do we tell stories anyway? Morgan Saylor and the importance of the make-believe - Columbia Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U. of C. student Morgan Saylor goes to dark place in 'White Girl'". Chicago Sun-Times. 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
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  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Homeland Season One". Rotten Tomatoes. December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Romano, Andrew (October 6, 2013). "'Homeland' Star Morgan Saylor: TV's Most Hated Character Talks Back". The Daily Beast.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moylan, Brian (May 16, 2016). "Terrible teens on TV: the brats that need to grow up" – via The Guardian.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yapalater, Lauren (November 20, 2012). "Dana Brody On "Homeland" Is The Worst". BuzzFeed.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, Stuart (June 18, 2014). "Morgan Saylor on Her Theater Debut and Leaving Homeland Behind". Vulture. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sandberg, Patrik (2014). "Morgan Saylor". V. Visionaire. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yamato, Jen (October 14, 2013). "'Homeland's Morgan Saylor Joins Disney Sports Drama 'McFarland'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McNary, Dave (August 22, 2014). "Kevin Costner's Sports Drama 'McFarland USA' Pushed to 2015". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lacava, Stephanie (February 4, 2015). "Could The Film 'White Girl' Be This Generation's 'Kids'?". Opening Ceremony. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'White Girl': Sundance Review". The Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Siegel, Tatiana (September 18, 2016). "Rapid Round: 'White Girl' Star Morgan Saylor Talks Drugs, Math and 'Homeland's' Dana Brody".
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ford, Rebecca (April 22, 2015). "Nick Robinson, Common Join Rob Reiner's 'Being Charlie' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barker, Andrew (September 17, 2015). "Toronto Film Review: 'Being Charlie'". Variety. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dianna Agron and Morgan Saylor on Playing Young Nuns in 'Novitiate' Sundance 2017". Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'Anywhere With You': Film Review". Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Galuppo, Mia (August 15, 2019). "Amazon Nabs Rights to Noir 'Blow the Man Down' (Exclusive)". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
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  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Denicolo, David (August 21, 2014). "Homeland's Morgan Saylor Talks Movies, Music—and Pies". Allure. Condé Nast. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rosen, Christopher (January 27, 2013). "SAG Awards Winners 2013: Screen Actors Guild Honors Best In Film & Television". The Huffington Post. AOL. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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