Michelle Forbes has been a TV mainstay since the mid-'90s when she was on Homicide: Life on the Street-she's appeared on 24, Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, In Treatment, and True Blood. But her role on the AMC mystery The Killing as the destroyed-by-grief mother of the dead girl at the center of the story has gotten her more attention than ever. Jace Lacob talked to Forbes about her career, playing the anguished Mitch Larsen, and why committing to a TV show is like an arranged marriage.
Few actors can hope to have as varied a career as Michelle Forbes, the chameleonic thespian who is stealing scenes (and viewers' collective breath) as Mitch Larsen, the grief-stricken mother on AMC's addictive whodunit The Killing (based on Søren Sveistrup's Danish drama Forbrydelsen), and previously as savage, power-mad villainess Maryann on HBO's True Blood. Her life in acting, which spans nearly 25 years and two continents,...
Few actors can hope to have as varied a career as Michelle Forbes, the chameleonic thespian who is stealing scenes (and viewers' collective breath) as Mitch Larsen, the grief-stricken mother on AMC's addictive whodunit The Killing (based on Søren Sveistrup's Danish drama Forbrydelsen), and previously as savage, power-mad villainess Maryann on HBO's True Blood. Her life in acting, which spans nearly 25 years and two continents,...
- 5/23/2011
- by Jace Lacob
- The Daily Beast
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