Courtney Braden Ford is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on television, such as playing Christine Hill on Dexter, Portia Bellefleur on True Blood, Lily on Parenthood, Tonia Pyne on Murder in the First, Kate Taylor on Revenge, Kelly Kline on Supernatural and Nora Darhk on Legends of Tomorrow. She also played the lead role in the Lifetimetelevision filmKept Woman.
Career
Ford described her career as stagnant for the ten years preceding 2008, in which she considered ceasing work as an actress. However, during what she considered to be her last audition, Ford was cast to play reporter Christine Hill on Showtime's television seriesDexter. She has been cast on the hit HBO series True Blood as Portia Bellefleur, Andy Bellefleur's sister. She was a recurring cast member in the fourth season. In the game seriesGears of War, she voices Maria Santiago, the lost wife of the character "Dom". In Fallout 4, Ford voices Piper Wright, a potential companion and the Editor-in-Chief of Diamond City's newspaper, . She also appeared in the ninth episode of season four of How I Met Your Mother titled "The Naked Man" and The Big Bang Theory season five episode "The Good Guy Fluctuation". Ford first appeared as Nora Darhk, the daughter of Damien Darhk in the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Return of the Mack". She was promoted to series regular prior to the start of season 4. Her husband Brandon Routh was already a series regular since the show began. In August 2019, it was announced that Ford and Routh, whose characters had become romantically linked at this point, would depart Legends of Tomorrow during the fifth season. Their final episode as series regulars was "".
Personal life
Ford was born in Huntington Beach, California. She and Brandon Routh were engaged on August 23, 2006, after three years of dating, and married November 24, 2007, at El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara. Their first child, a son named Leo James, was born in August 2012. The maternal side of her family is of Hispanic heritage with roots in the state of New Mexico.
