Linda Margaret Powell (born April 16, 1965) is an American actress.

Linda Margaret Powell was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, on April 16, 1965[1][2]: 115  the daughter of Alma and Colin Powell, the former United States Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[3] She was raised on a series of military bases and attended four different high schools, because of her father's career.

[1][2]: 266  After attending Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado in eleventh grade, Powell graduated from Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1983.

[3] Powell has had a long career of supporting roles in film and television, her most notable roles being Ingrid Mills on Chicago Fire,[3] Pauline Samson in TV mini-series Political Animals[4] and a lawyer in the film Blue Caprice.