“I will be celebrating starting from June 1,” Jodie Turner-Smith said, and she means it: the actor plans to begin marking her milestone year with her 6‑year‑old daughter, Juno, by spending the summer traveling while the child is off school.
Turner‑Smith, who turns 40 on Sept. 7, framed the early start as practical as well as celebratory. “Summertime we can do the traveling. My daughter's not in school. That's the time when we get to do all of our fun things,” she said, adding that she shares Juno with her ex‑husband, Joshua Jackson. The timing also intersects with Turner‑Smith’s public calendar — season two of The Agency premieres June 21 on Paramount+, with all 10 episodes available on the streamer.
The Agency returns as the immediate backdrop to the conversation. Turner‑Smith described season two as putting her character through harrowing ordeals — and herself through gruelling days on set. She acknowledged the contrast between performance and home life in blunt terms: “It’s just two totally different worlds. Going home to my daughter is nothing like spending 10, 12 hours inside of a Moroccan prison cell.”
Even so, the actress insisted motherhood changes the calculus of difficult shoots. “I’m a mum,” she said, and that role helps her compartmentalize scenes that are physically and emotionally exhausting. She said being a mother allows her to push aside the hardest aspects of filming and to refocus on the life waiting at home.
Turner‑Smith sounded buoyant about both work and family. “I feel like I look better than I've ever looked. I feel better than I've ever looked. I'm like, I just keep getting better,” she said, and followed with, “I’m doing better. I’m getting to do work that I’ve dreamed of—work with incredible people.” For her, the two truths sit together: the professional high of new material and the private satisfaction of sharing it with her child. “Not just my little one. One of the most amazing things about this job and this career is that I can share the amazing things I'm doing with my family,” she said, and called that presence on set “honestly the best part of it.”
Turner‑Smith also spoke about what she wants Juno to see in her day‑to‑day life: a model of fulfillment. “It’s important for a young girl to see her mother, a woman, living her dreams and loving that, and loving her job,” she said. “I think it's important for little girls to see women being fulfilled. And that's all I choose to model for my daughter, fulfillment.” Asked whether Juno might follow her parents into acting, Turner‑Smith smiled around the uncertainty: “I mean, who knows what she'll do,” she said. “The world is absolutely her oyster.”
What remains private is the itinerary: Turner‑Smith has committed to starting celebrations on June 1 and to a summer of travel with Juno, but she has not detailed destinations or dates. What viewers can mark on their calendars is the June 21 drop of The Agency season two on Paramount+, when audiences will see the work she says she dreamed of — work she is balancing against long days and the steady anchor of motherhood.
