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Meet Karen Pittman, who plays the tenacious Mia Jordan on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show

STORYIshani Sarkar
Emmy-nominated actress Karen Pittman is making waves for her role as Mia Jordan in The Morning Show. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
Emmy-nominated actress Karen Pittman is making waves for her role as Mia Jordan in The Morning Show. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
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The Emmy-nominated actress appears in the Apple TV+ show with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon – she was also in And Just Like That and Yellowstone

Amazon Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty may have ended, but the internet has already found a new TV obsession: The Morning Show.
The Apple TV+ offering, led by Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup, follows the high-stakes inner workings of the fictional UBA network and its tentpole news programme, The Morning Show. Its fourth season premiered on Apple TV+ in September, and it is already the most popular drama show on the platform at the time of writing. The most recent episode, “Tipping Point”, made headlines (spoiler alert!) for the shocking return of an old cast member Bel Powley, who plays Claire Conway, and the fate of fan-favourite character Mia Jordan, played by 49-year-old Karen Pittman.
Karen Pittman plays Mia Jordan on The Morning Show. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
Karen Pittman plays Mia Jordan on The Morning Show. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
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In this episode, Jordan, a TMS producer, is passed over for the head of news position despite being a fitting candidate for the role. Filled with indignation, she quits her job, leaving fans curious about her next steps. Regarding Jordan’s future, Pittman told Deadline, “I think we’re gonna see her try to be a little bit of a social vigilante as we move forward.”

Pittman – a rising star in her own right – earned an Emmy nod for TMS. But who is she in real life?

What is Karen Pittman’s background?

Karen Pittman attends the premiere of the fourth season of the TV show The Morning Show in New York City, US, in September. Photo: Reuters
Karen Pittman attends the premiere of the fourth season of the TV show The Morning Show in New York City, US, in September. Photo: Reuters

Karen Pittman hails from Mississippi but was brought up in Nashville, Tennessee. She studied voice and opera at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and briefly worked in the music industry. She got her master’s degree in acting from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate acting programme. She previously worked in venture capital, according to The New York Times.

Where have you seen her before?

Karen Pittman is an Emmy-nominated actress. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
Karen Pittman is an Emmy-nominated actress. Photo: @thekarenpittman/Instagram
Pittman made her screen debut in 2009, but has risen to prominence in recent years with appearances in acclaimed TV shows like Yellowstone, And Just Like That and Forever. She is also a celebrated theatre actress, best known for originating the character of Jory in Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play, Disgraced.
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