Jamie Clayton

Jamie Clayton born January 15 1978 is an American actress and model Clayton is best known for starring as Nomi Marks in the Netflix original series Sense8 Sasha Booker in the third season of Designated Survivor and Tess Van De Berg in Showtimes The L Word Generation Q She portrays Pinhead in the 2022 Hellraiser film Clayton was raised in San Diego California Her father Howard Clayton was a criminal defense attorney and her mother Shelley is an event planner When she was 19 Clayton moved to New York City to pursue a career as a makeup artist In 2010 Clayton was the makeup artist and cohost on VH1s first makeover show TRANSform Me The following year she played the recurring role of Kyla in the third season of the HBO series Hung In 2012 Clayton played the lead role of Michelle Darnell on the Emmy Award winning interactive web series Dirty Work and the role of Carla Favers on the TV series Are We There Yet She also narrated the audiobook for the childrens novel Melissa about a young transgender girl Clayton starred as one of the eight main characters in the Netflix original television series Sense8 that premiered on June 5 2015 In Sense8 she played Nomi Marks a trans woman political blogger and hacker living in San Francisco Clayton said that she was primarily interested in Sense8 because of the opportunity to play a transgender character written by filmmakers Lilly and Lana Wachowski and to be on set with them Being a fan of science fiction and J Michael Straczynski in particular also attracted her to this project Clayton appeared in the 2016 film The Neon Demon and the 2017 thriller film The Snowman In 2019 Clayton starred as Sasha Booker in the third season of the Netflixs Designated Survivor From 2019 through Season 3 Clayton starred in The L Word Generation Q the sequel to the Showtime original The L Word She also guest starred in The CWs Roswell New Mexico In 2022 Clayton starred as The Priest the antagonist in Hellraiser