Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (born 17 April 1987) is a Canadian actress, musician, model and television personality.
She is best known for playing the fashion executive and heiress Steffy Forrester Finnegan on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times in 2019, 2021, and 2023.
In May 2008, she began playing the contract role of Steffy Forrester on the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
"[7] In 2012, Wood received her very first nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Steffy at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards.
[10] In 2013, Wood garnered her second consecutive nomination in that category at the 40th Daytime Emmy Awards,[11] in which she submitted the scenes where Steffy surprises Liam (Scott Clifton) by presenting him with signed annulment papers.
[14] For the 2018 Daytime Emmy Awards, Wood received a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in the role.
In September 2010, Wood's casting was announced and it was revealed that filming was underway in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The character was described as "a smart mouthed beauty who wears glasses" and is "caught in a spine chilling, stomach churning situation that will make viewers squirm in their seats", which was a risky eye procedure which Wood was terrified to do.
[31] In July 2014, Wood filmed an appearance on the comedy series Anger Management, starring opposite Charlie Sheen.
[33] She released her debut single "After Hours", a dance-influenced song penned by her wardrobe stylist, Chaz E. Foley, in January 2012.
Vice president of programming and development for the network, Jeff Olde, stated: "We are excited to take viewers around the globe and behind the velvet ropes for fun in the sun at only the hottest, most elite vacation locales.
[39] In November 2017, Wood announced her engagement to Creative Artists Agency talent agent, Elan Ruspoli,[40] and the pair eloped in July 2018.