Courtney Ford

Courtney Ford is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on television, such as playing Christine Hill on Dexter (2009), Portia Bellefleur on True Blood (2011), Lily on Parenthood (2012), Tonia Pyne on Murder in the First (2014), Kate Taylor on Revenge (2014), Kelly Kline on Supernatural (2016–2017) and Nora Darhk on Legends of Tomorrow (2017–2018). She also played the lead role in the Lifetime television film Kept Woman (2015).

Career
Ford described her career as stagnant for the 10 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 series Dexter.

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 series Gears of War, she voices Maria Santiago, the lost wife of the character "Dom".

In Fallout 4 (2015), 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".

Personal life
Ford was born in Huntington Beach, California. She is married to actor Brandon Routh. The couple 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, was born on August 10, 2012. The maternal side of her family is of Hispanic heritage with roots in the state of New Mexico that predate its admission to the Union.