Morena Baccarin

Best known since Firefly for Homeland, Gotham and the Deadpool films, and now leads CBS's Sheriff Country.

After the show

Morena Baccarin reprised Inara Serra in Serenity (2005), then played Adria, the Ori leader, in the final season of Stargate SG-1 and the 2008 film Stargate: The Ark of Truth.

She led ABC’s V (2009 to 2011) as Anna, the commander of the alien Visitors. From 2011 to 2013 she played Jessica Brody on Showtime’s Homeland, which earned her a 2013 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

On Fox’s Gotham she played Dr. Leslie Thompkins, recurring in the first season and a series regular from 2015 to 2019. She played Vanessa Carlysle opposite Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018), and returned for Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Other film work includes the disaster thriller Greenland (2020) with Gerard Butler, Fast Charlie (2023) and Elevation (2024), which she also executive produced. On TV she led NBC’s The Endgame (2022).

Lately

In October 2025 she began starring as Sheriff Mickey Fox in Sheriff Country, CBS’s spinoff of Fire Country. CBS renewed it, and the second season premiered October 9, 2026, with her husband Ben McKenzie guest starring as a neighboring sheriff.

On film, Greenland 2: Migration opened in the United States on January 9, 2026, with Baccarin again as Allison Garrity. She also appears in the action comedy The Wrecking Crew (2026), and played the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull in Amazon MGM’s Masters of the Universe, released June 5, 2026. She appears as herself in McKenzie’s 2026 documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money.

In March 2026 she was among the original cast named as expected to return for an animated Firefly series that Nathan Fillion announced is in development.

Off screen

Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro. She and McKenzie, her Gotham co-star, married in Brooklyn in June 2017. Her earlier marriage to director Austin Chick ended in divorce in 2016.