Karen Pittman

Karen Pittman is an American actress. She had recurring roles in The Americans and Luke Cage before starring as Mia Jordan in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present) and as Dr. Nya Wallace in the HBO Max comedy-drama, And Just Like That... (2021–2023). Her performance in the third season of The Morning Show earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Early life, family and education
Pittman was born in Mississippi and raised in Nashville, Tennessee.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Voice and Opera at Northwestern University and a Masters of Fine Arts from New York University's Graduate Acting Program.

Career
Pittman has portrayed the character of Jory in the 2012 Lincoln Center production of Disgraced and has performed in FX Network's The Americans and Netflix's Luke Cage, as Lisa and Inspector Priscilla Ridley, respectively.

Since 2019, Pittman has starred as Mia Jordan in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, along with the cast in 2022 and 2024. For its third season, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 2021, she began starring as Dr. Nya Wallace in the HBO Max comedy-drama, And Just Like That.... She acted in both series in the same time. In 2022, she played her first leading role, in the romantic drama film, Unthinkably Good Things directed by Terri J. Vaughn. She later starred alongside Corey Stoll in the crime drama film, What We Do Next.