Morgan Saylor

The wonderful young stage and screen actress Morgan Saylor is best known for staring as Dana Brody in the hit Showtime series, Homeland. Away from acting she is also a nationally ranked rock climber.

Born in Chicago, and raised in Atlanta, Saylor always had a love for acting, and began performing in community theatre as a teenager. One summer, while still at school, she visited Los Angeles and booked her first professional job, a voice-over as young Meadow in HBO’s classic TV series, The Sopranos. After that she featured in the movie Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, and in Father of Inventions opposite Kevin Spacey. But her big acting break came in 2009, when she was cast as Dana Brody in Showtime’s political thriller series, Homeland, playing opposite Claire Danes. After graduating from High School, she moved to New York to pursue acting full-time. She made her stage debut in 2014 in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of When We Were Young and Unafraid. She has since gone on to feature in a number of stage and screen productions, including McFarland, USA, with Kevin Costner, Rob Reiner’s Being Charlie, and the critically acclaimed black comedy, Blow the Man Down. Alongside her acting, she also attended the University of Chicago to study Mathematics and Art History.

Saylor regularly connects with her legions of dedicated followers and fans through Instagram, posting pictures and videos of her life both on and off the screen.