Courtney Ford's earliest acting role was as the scoreboard girl in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's 1998 sports film "Baseketball," although that's probably not where you know her from. Her first big breakout role came in Season 4 of Showtime's "Dexter" where she played Christine Hill, a nosy reporter and daughter of the Trinity Killer. In an interview with Collider, Ford mentioned that she almost gave up on acting before getting the role in Dexter. She then went on to recurring roles as Lily on "Parenthood" and Portia Bellefleur on "True Blood."
She went on to score a recurring role as Kelly Kline on "Supernatural" and then earned a starring role as Nora Darhk in Seasons 3-7 of "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" where she got to work with her real-life husband, Brandon Routh. In an interview with Bustle, Ford said that it felt very comfortable working with her own husband. "I don't know if it's strange for anyone. It might be other people like, 'Oh my god, this dynamic's freaking me out,'" Ford said. "But if they hang out with us and they're working with us day to day, they know that it's — I mean there's nothing different than when I was coming up, some of my first big jobs were with married couples." So it would seem that Ford specializes in fantasy and sci-fi roles, which made her a perfect guest star for "The Big Bang Theory."
