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Sep 17, 2018 · The subtext: Ann Dowd does not often get to play nice characters. This is a horror movie, so (spoilers ahead if you have not watched Hereditary yet) Joan ends up being, well… not...
Nov 18, 2021 · The Endurance of Ann Dowd. The acclaimed character actress sheds her steely demeanor for the role of a lifetime. By Justin Kirkland Published: Nov 18, 2021 10:40 AM EST. Save Article.
Sep 23, 2021 · There are two things, I’ve learned, that Ann Dowd does incredibly well. The first is talk; the second, as is more rarely the case, is listen.
Jan 30, 2022 · ANN DOWD: It's really quite extraordinary to have four years with a character. Because she'll teach you things you didn't even see coming. 'Whoa, thank you for that.' I always wanted her to progress more quickly. But that's not what happens. That's not the truth.
- Jill Beckett in Philadelphia
- Sandra Frum in Compliance
- Estabrooks Masters in Masters of Sex
- Patti Levin in The Leftovers
- Detective Dupre in The Great & The Small
- Aunt Lydia Clements in The Handmaid’s Tale
- Joan in Hereditary
- Betty Freeman in Nancy
- Linda in Mass
Those rewatching old favorites from the 90s and 00s might find themselves asking a certain question again and again: “hold on, was that Ann Dowd?” Long before her breakout, she was a reliable presence in movies and television, and she popped up all over the place. Lorenzo’s Oil? That’s her as a nurse. Shiloh? She played the mom. Law & Order and its...
The role of an unassuming fast food manager might not have “big break” written all over it, but that’s how it played out for Ann Dowd. She’s outstanding in Compliance, a deeply upsetting movie that asks uncomfortable questions about authority and complicity. Based on a true story that would seem far-fetched if a screenwriter invented it, verisimili...
The central paradox of Masters of Sex, loosely based on true events, is that someone as stuffy and repressed as William Masters (Michael Sheen) becomes a pioneering sexologist, whose studies with his partner Virginia Johnson (Lizzie Caplan) helped destigmatize sex in American society. The show doesn’t blame all of William’s shortcomings on his upbr...
Before The Leftovers got truly, wonderfully weird in its second and third seasons, the Guilty Remnant was the first sign that it was willing to go to some weird places in its exploration of grief. When 2% of the world population vanishes into thin air, various cults arise in the aftermath, including the Guilty Remnant: a group of silent, chain-smok...
Dowd's role in The Great & the Small was originally supposed to go to fellow character actress Margo Martindale — and indeed, the folksy, eccentric Detective Dupre fits squarely within Martindale’s wheelhouse. But Dowd has plenty of fun with the role of a detective who monitors a homeless young man named Scott (Nick Fink) while he’s on probation. S...
When Ann Dowd won an Emmy for her work in the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale, she was visibly stunned; it took a moment for her to process her victory and start making her way towards the stage. But to anyone who had watched her performance as Aunt Lydia, Dowd had the Emmy sewn up by the end of the first episode. Playing a cross between a scho...
After her high-profile villain turns on The Leftovers and The Handmaid’s Tale, certain viewers heard alarm bells the moment Ann Dowd showed up in a grief support group. Those alarms would grow louder as her character Joan befriends Annie Graham (Toni Collette), and louder still when she suggests Annie hold a seance for her dead daughter. While it’s...
Nancy, a disquieting Sundance drama about the ways a compulsive liar can delude themselves, boasts a startlingly impressive cast. Starring Andrea Riseborough as the title character, it centers on Nancy as she decides that she’s the long-lost daughter of a couple (Steve Buscemi and J. Smith Cameron) whose real daughter was kidnapped thirty years ago...
For the vast majority of its runtime, Mass consists of four people sitting across from each other in a church basement, talking. It sounds deeply stagy, as though it was adapted from some nonexistent play, but in fact it’s perfect for cinema: the performances here are quite internal, with oceans of depth that are easier to tease out on screen than ...
Jun 8, 2021 · Ann Dowd talks Aunt Lydia’s complex and deep love for both June and Janine and her uneasy alliance with Commander Lawrence in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 4.
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Aug 23, 2017 · Over the past few years, audiences have become intimately acquainted with actress Ann Dowd’s ability to portray agents of evil with a humanity that makes her characters even more compelling...
