Who is Marina Squerciati?
Marina Squerciati is an American actress who has played Kim Burgess on NBC’s Chicago P.D. since the show premiered on January 8, 2014. She came to television from the New York stage, with a theater degree from Northwestern University and a run of Off-Broadway work behind her. She’s still in the cast: Rotten Tomatoes lists her as Officer Kim Burgess in the Season 14 premiere, which aired October 7, 2026.
Sourcing note: Most career facts here come from NBC’s own pages, a Northwestern publication, interviews quoted by Looper and Hello!, and Wikipedia’s cited summary of her credits. Squerciati keeps her family life largely private, so the personal section sticks to what has been widely reported and what she has shared herself. A few facts, such as the 2003 degree and the 2016 marriage, come from Wikipedia’s citations to Northwestern and Crain’s Chicago Business, which I couldn’t open directly. She hasn’t disclosed her income, so this post gives no net worth figure. As of November 14, 2026.
Marina Squerciati Quick facts
| Item | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Born | New York City; raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan | Wikipedia |
| Education | B.A. in theater, Northwestern University, 2003 | Wikipedia, citing a Northwestern publication |
| Best-known role | Officer, later Detective, Kim Burgess on Chicago P.D. | NBC Insider |
| Casting announced | August 28, 2013 (Deadline) | Wikipedia |
| Series premiere | January 8, 2014, NBC | Wikipedia |
| Current status | In the cast of Season 14, which premiered October 7, 2026 | Rotten Tomatoes |
| Stage award | Agnes Moorehead Award for playing Judy Holliday in Just in Time | Looper |
| Net worth | Not publicly disclosed | None |
Marina Squerciati’s Early life and Northwestern
Squerciati was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side, according to Wikipedia’s summary of profiles in Make It Better and The Imagista. Those profiles note Italian heritage on her mother’s side. She has said she has no siblings, in a 2017 Entertainment Weekly interview quoted by Looper.
She studied dance as well as acting. Her first screen credit was a dance role in the 1993 film of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, and The Imagista, as cited by Looper, says she trained at the School of American Ballet.
She earned a B.A. in theater from Northwestern University in 2003, a date Wikipedia cites to a Northwestern School of Communication publication. In a podcast interview recounted by Looper, she described winning a place in the drama program’s annual showcase for New York agents even though she had been in the hospital with pneumonia on audition day.
The paralegal job
She held a day job while she auditioned and performed in New York. Looper reports, citing her own interviews, that she was a paralegal at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and still held the job when she was cast on Chicago P.D. She kept it through the first season, and in her words, “As an actor, you never know what’s going to happen!” She left after the show became a success.
Stage career
Before television, Squerciati worked steadily in New York theater. Her best-documented credit is Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story, in which she played the title role. The show was selected for the New York International Fringe Festival, where Looper reports she won the Agnes Moorehead Award, and Wikipedia places the Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Her other Off-Broadway credits, per her résumé as quoted by Looper, include Beauty of the Father and Manipulation. She also created the role of Kerri Taylor in the a cappella musical Perfect Harmony and sang with the vocal group The Essentials, both credited on Wikipedia to the publisher Samuel French.
Her Broadway debut was in a stage adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be, directed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw. The Internet Broadway Database lists her in the cast of that production, which ran at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre from October 14 to November 16, 2008, and marks it as her Broadway debut.
Screen work before Chicago P.D.
Her first television credit was a guest role as bank employee Betsy Naylor on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2009, according to NBC Insider. The same year she made her feature debut as Melanie in Nancy Meyers’ It’s Complicated, per Wikipedia.
Guest spots followed on The Good Wife and Damages in 2010 and Blue Bloods in 2011. Her longest run before Chicago was eight episodes of Gossip Girl across its fifth and sixth seasons, where NBC Insider says she played literary agent Alessandra Steele. In 2013 she appeared as Soviet operative Irina Semenova on FX’s The Americans.
Her film roles in this period were small and mostly independent: a waitress in Frances Ha (2012), Dr. Sara Bella in Alter Egos (2012) and Dawn in the independent superhero film Sparks (2013). Full credits with roles are in the tables below.
Chicago P.D. and the One Chicago crossovers
Deadline announced on August 28, 2013 that Squerciati had been cast as Officer Kim Burgess in the new Chicago Fire spin-off, a date Wikipedia cites to that report. Chicago P.D. premiered on NBC on January 8, 2014. Burgess started as an officer and was promoted to detective in Season 12, Episode 6, “Pawns,” according to NBC Insider.
The series has been renewed year after year. TV Insider notes that NBC picked up Season 13 on May 6, 2025, and The Popverse reported in May 2026 that Season 14 was already ordered. Rotten Tomatoes dates the Season 14 premiere to October 7, 2026 and lists Squerciati as Burgess. NBC’s fall schedule, as TVLine reported it on June 24, 2026, set that premiere for Wednesday, October 7 at 10 p.m.
Crossovers
Burgess has appeared across the One Chicago family. NBC Insider credits her with episodes of Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago Justice (the 2017 episode “Uncertainty Principle”). Wikipedia adds a 2015 appearance as Burgess on Law & Order: SVU, which is separate from her 2011 SVU guest role as a different character, Annie Meyers. Episode counts vary between sources, for example 21 Chicago Fire episodes on Wikipedia against 23 on NBC Insider, so I’ve left the numbers out.
Selected credits
Roles and years below follow Wikipedia’s credits list, cross-checked where possible against NBC Insider. The film table runs newest first; the television table starts with Chicago P.D. and its crossovers.
Film
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Central Park | Melissa Shaw |
| 2017 | Marshall | Stella Friedman |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Hostess (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Additional voices |
| 2013 | Night Moves | ADR voice |
| 2013 | Sparks | Dawn |
| 2012 | Frances Ha | Waitress at club |
| 2012 | Alter Egos | Dr. Sara Bella |
| 2009 | It’s Complicated | Melanie |
| 1993 | George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker | Mouse / Polichinelle |
Television
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 to present | Chicago P.D. | Officer, later Detective, Kim Burgess (series regular) |
| 2015 onward | Chicago Med | Kim Burgess (guest appearances; counts vary by source) |
| 2017 | Special Skills | Marina |
| 2017 | Chicago Justice | Kim Burgess, episode “Uncertainty Principle” |
| 2015 | Law & Order: SVU | Kim Burgess (crossover) |
| 2013 | The Americans | Irina Semenova |
| 2011 to 2012 | Gossip Girl | Alessandra Steele (8 episodes) |
| 2011 | Law & Order: SVU | Annie Meyers |
| 2011 | Blue Bloods | Cameron Swanson |
| 2010 | Damages | Young Anne Connel |
| 2010 | The Good Wife | Cheryl Willens |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Betsy Naylor |
Chicago Fire, where she also appears as Burgess, is left out of the table because sources disagree on the number of episodes.
Personal life
Squerciati is married to attorney Eli Kay-Oliphant. Wikipedia dates the marriage to 2016, citing Crain’s Chicago Business (which I couldn’t open directly), and Looper, citing Hello!, says the two met as undergraduates at Northwestern. She has two children; NBC Insider reports that she shared on Instagram on January 1, 2025 that she had welcomed a second child in 2024. This post doesn’t name the children or give their birth details. We apply the same standard to all celebrity family coverage — see how we corrected a false daughter claim in our Giselle Weber profile.
The estate dispute
One episode of her private life became public through the courts. PopCulture.com reported on September 30, 2019, citing Radar Online, that Squerciati had filed papers in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court alleging she was the daughter of the late financier John R. Jakobson, who died in April 2017, and that he had promised her a share of his estate. His will did not name her. Looper, citing earlier New York Post coverage, dates the first reporting of the claim to 2018.
These are allegations in a court filing, not findings. Her 2017 remark that she has no siblings, quoted earlier, predates the claims reported in 2018. According to PopCulture, lawyers for a member of the Jakobson family disputed the claim, argued that New York’s “dead man’s statute” should bar her testimony about the alleged promise, and offered her $50,000. I found no report of a ruling or settlement, and I haven’t seen the filings themselves. For how we handle unverified family claims about public figures, see our piece on Aviva Bidapa’s first husband.
Related reading: Riko Shibata’s life with Nicolas Cage — another case where we verified what the tabloids got wrong.
Frequently asked questions
Is Marina Squerciati still on Chicago P.D.?
Yes. Rotten Tomatoes lists her as Officer Kim Burgess in the Season 14 premiere, which aired October 7, 2026.
Who does Marina Squerciati play?
Kim Burgess, an officer, later a detective, on Chicago P.D. She was cast in August 2013, and the show premiered on January 8, 2014.
Where did she study?
Northwestern University, where she earned a B.A. in theater in 2003, according to Wikipedia, citing a Northwestern publication.
Who is she married to?
Attorney Eli Kay-Oliphant, whom she married in 2016 and who, per Looper, she met at Northwestern.
What is Marina Squerciati’s net worth?
She hasn’t publicly disclosed one that I could find, and no reliable source gives a figure, so any number on a celebrity bio site is a guess.
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