Who plays Jack Danvers in ‘Ted Lasso’?

Jack Danvers is played by South African actress Jodi Balfour in the Apple TV+ soccer drama series Ted Lasso. She was cast in the show in April 2022 and appears in four episodes.

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

Some of her other movies and tv shows include The Crown, True Detective, Relik, Sanctuary, Supernatural, Primeval: New World, The Best Laid Plans, V, The Sinking of the Laconia, Tower Prep, Kongo, Final Destination 5, Vampire, The Husband, Afterparty, Unearthing, Almost Anything, The Rest of Us, Eadweard, A Ghost Within, and more.

Balfour started her career in the entertainment industry in 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 and competed in the Miss South Africa 2008 pageant.