Biography
Jennifer Morrison is an American actress, producer, director, and former child model. She is known for her roles as Dr. Allison Cameron in the medical-drama series House and Emma Swan in the ABC adventure-fantasy series Once Upon a Time.
Morrison made her feature film debut at the age of 14 in the 1994 film Intersection, which starred Richard Gere and Sharon Stone. She went on to appear in several feature films, including Stir of Echoes (1999) with Kevin Bacon, Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and played Winona Kirk, mother of James T. Kirk in J.J. Abraham’s Star Trek (2009).
She also has portrayed Zoey Pierson, one of Ted Mosby’s love interests on the comedy series How I Met Your Mother (2011). Between 2019 and 2022, she took on the guest-starring role of Cassidy Sharp on the critically acclaimed NBC series This Is Us.
She has also appeared in the horror films, including The Darkness (2016), which once again starred Kevin Bacon, and Amityville: The Awakening (2017). In 2018, she directed the film Sun Dogs, which stars Michael Angarano, Melissa Benoist, Xzibit and Allison Janney.