Morgan Saylor


Morgan Frances Saylor is an American actress. She is known for portraying Dana Brody in the Showtime series Homeland. Along with the rest of the cast of Homeland, Saylor was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014.

Early life

Saylor was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother is a retailer at REI and her father does renovations for Starbucks; they are divorced. Saylor moved to Villa Rica, Georgia at age two, and Decatur, Georgia at age ten.

Career

Saylor attended acting camps at the Department of Recreation and played the title role in Alana at OnStage Atlanta. She starred as Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street. In fourth grade, she moved to Los Angeles for the summer. She did a voice-over of young Meadow in The Sopranos in 2006. When Saylor was 11 years old, she was signed by talent agent Joy Pervis. Saylor played Annie in in 2009 and young Claire in Father of Invention in 2010. She played Dana Brody in Homeland from season one to season three.
In June 2014, Saylor made her stage debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club as Penny in When We Were Young and Unafraid, written by Sarah Treem and directed by Pam MacKinnon. Also in 2014, she played Gracie Highsmith in Jamie Marks Is Dead, an adaptation of Christopher Barzak's 2007 novel One for Sorrow, directed by Carter Smith.
Saylor played Kevin Costner's character's daughter Julie in the sports drama McFarland, USA, which was released on February 20, 2015. She played the role of Leah in White Girl, which was written and directed by Elizabeth Wood and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Saylor acted alongside Nick Robinson and Common in director Rob Reiner's film Being Charlie. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in September of that year.

Personal life

Saylor graduated from high school in May 2013. In August, she moved to the Bedford–Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York with her brother and her boyfriend, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2012. She has a small anchor tattooed behind her left ear; her older brother has a similar, larger anchor tattooed on his forearm. In her free time, Saylor enjoys rock climbing. She studied Mathematics at the University of Chicago in the fall of 2015.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations