Rhea Seehorn

Rhea Seehorn
Seehorn in July 2018
Born	Deborah Rhea Seehorn (1972-05-12) May 12, 1972 (age 49) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1998–present
Known for	Better Call Saul (2015–present)
Spouse(s)	Graham Larson ​ ​ (m. 2018)​

Deborah Rhea Seehorn (/ˈreɪ ˈsiːhɔːrn/; born May 12, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for playing attorney Kim Wexler in AMC's Better Call Saul (2015–present), for which she is a two-time winner of the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. She has also appeared in NBC's Whitney (2011–2013), ABC's I'm with Her (2003–2004), and TNT's Franklin & Bash (2011–2014).

Early life[]

Deborah Rhea Seehorn was born in Norfolk, Virginia,^[1] on May 12, 1972.^[2][3][4][5] Her mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy, while her father was an agent in the Naval Investigative Service; her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Washington, D.C. and Arizona, as well as in Japan.^[2][6] Following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother, she studied painting, drawing, and architecture from a young age.^[7] She continued pursuing the visual arts, but had a growing passion for acting and was introduced to contemporary theater in college.^[7] She graduated from George Mason University in 1994 with a BA in Studio Art.

Career[]

Seehorn in January 2016

While in college, Seehorn was looking to get into theater, after the encouragement of her acting teacher. She worked many ancillary positions in the theater industry in D.C. to try to get noticed. She ended up getting some major roles in local theater productions, but still needed to take odd jobs to help make ends meet; she took roles in various industrial short instructional films.^[2] She soon started getting parts in more television productions, often playing roles that she considered as "very wry, sarcastic, knowing women", similar to her idol Bea Arthur.^[2] However, most of these roles were short-run series cancelled after one or two seasons.^[2]

In May 2014, Seehorn was cast in the Breaking Bad spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul.^[8][9] Seehorn portrays Kim Wexler, a lawyer and the love interest of the titular Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk).^[10] The series premiered on February 8, 2015.^[11] For her role, she has twice won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, once won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and has been nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.

Seehorn's film credits include roles in the independent features Riders and Floating, and the independent shorts The Pitch, The Gentlemen, and The Case Against Karen. In 2021, she starred alongside Amanda Seyfried in the horror thriller film Things Heard & Seen. Her theater credits include the Broadway production of 45 Seconds from Broadway, as well as roles in The World Over, All My Sons, Stop Kiss, How I Learned to Drive, Freedomland, and Marat/Sade.

Personal life[]

Seehorn married film producer and real estate agent Graham Larson in 2018, becoming the step-mother to his two sons from an earlier marriage.^{[1][7][12][13]}

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

Awards and nominations[]

References[]

External links[]

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