Jodi Balfour (born October 29, 1986) is a South African actress. She won a Canadian Screen Award for her performance as Gladys Witham in the series Bomb Girls (2012–2013). She has since starred as Ellen Waverly Wilson in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind (2019–2023).

Balfour grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She was the co-host of the South African youth television series Bling in the early 2000s. She later studied drama at the University of Cape Town^[2] and competed in the Miss South Africa 2008 pageant.^[3]

Since her graduation in 2009, she has worked as an actor primarily in British and Canadian film and television productions.^[3]

She was cast as Gladys Witham in the Canadian television drama series Bomb Girls in 2013.^[4] She won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 for her performance in the series' follow-up television film Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy.^[5]

In February 2015, she was cast in the Cinemax series Quarry.^[6] Since 2019, she has starred in the Apple TV+ space drama series For All Mankind.

In April 2022, she was cast in the Apple TV+ football sitcom Ted Lasso.^[7]

In the 2023 film Freud's Last Session, she portrayed the American psychoanalyst Dorothy Burlingham, the colleague and companion of Anna Freud.^[8]

Balfour was based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where in addition to her acting she is co-owner of Nelson the Seagull, a coffeehouse and bake shop in the city's Gastown neighborhood.^[9]

On 30 June 2021, she announced on Instagram that she identifies as queer, stating that she found it freeing to "finally embrace and explore [her] queerness."^[10] On 24 October 2021, Balfour announced on Instagram that she and Abbi Jacobson had been romantically involved for a year.^[11] As of August 2022, Balfour and Jacobson are engaged.^[12]