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Rhea Seehorn
American actress (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deborah Rhea Seehorn (/ˈreɪ ˈsiːhɔːrn/ RAY SEE-horn;[1] born May 12, 1972) is an American actress and director.
She is best known for portraying Kim Wexler in AMC's legal crime drama series Better Call Saul (2015–2022), for which she was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 74th and 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, along with winning the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. She also received another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her performance in the AMC web series Cooper's Bar, which premiered in 2022.
Since November 2025 she has starred as Carol Sturka in the Apple TV drama Pluribus, which garnered her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, as well as a fourth nomination for a Critics' Choice Television Award.
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Early life and education
Deborah Rhea Seehorn was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 12, 1972.[2][3][4][5] Her mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy, while her father was a counterintelligence agent in the Naval Investigative Service. She has an older sister. Her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Washington, D.C., and Arizona, as well as in Japan.[3][6] Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she lived with her mother and sister in Virginia Beach.[2] Seehorn’s father passed away when she was 18.[7]
Following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother, she studied painting, drawing, and architecture from a young age. She continued pursuing the visual arts, but had a growing passion for acting and was introduced to contemporary theater while attending George Mason University.[8]
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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 corporate instructional films.[3]
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. However, most of these roles were short-run series cancelled after one or two seasons.[3] Among her early roles was the lead in a pilot for an American version of the Argentine telenovela Lalola entitled Eva Adams, about a womanizing executive who gets turned female through witchcraft as revenge for his treatment of women. It was filmed for the Fox network co-starring James Van Der Beek in 2009. The show was envisioned as a dramedy, in the vein of telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea (which itself was adapted for American audiences as Ugly Betty), but it was ultimately not picked up for a regular series.[9][10]
In May 2014, Seehorn was cast in the Breaking Bad spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul (2015–2022), created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.[11][12] Seehorn portrays Kim Wexler, a lawyer and the love interest of the titular Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk).[13] The series premiered on February 8, 2015.[14] For her role, she has received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Satellite Awards for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, one Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television out of two nominations, and one Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama out of three nominations, also receiving two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. TVLine named Seehorn "Performer of the Year" in 2022 for her work on Better Call Saul.[15]
In 2022, Seehorn made her television directorial debut with the fourth episode of Better Call Saul's final season ("Hit and Run").[16] That same year she began appearing in the AMC web series Cooper's Bar which earned her an additional Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.[17]
Seehorn stars in Pluribus, Gilligan's next series after Better Call Saul, which was picked up by Apple TV+ for a two-season order and premiered on November 6, 2025.[18][19] Her performance as Carol Sturka, a romance author immune to the effects of an alien virus affecting nearly all of humanity, garnered her nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.[20][21]
Seehorn's film credits include roles in the independent features Riders and Floating, and the independent shorts The Pitch, The Gentlemen, and A Case Against Karen.[citation needed] In 2021, she starred alongside Amanda Seyfried in the horror thriller film Things Heard & Seen.[22]
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.[citation needed]
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Personal life
She got engaged to film producer and real estate agent Graham Larson in 2018. She was introduced to Larson by his ex-wife. Upon their marriage, she became a stepmother to his two sons from an earlier marriage.[8][23][24]
She has gone by her middle name Rhea since childhood due to feeling a "disassociation" with the name Debbie from an early age; "the Deborahs and Debbies that I knew or saw on TV always seemed to be really attractive cheerleaders, and it was not my lane at all in school."[25] She had also suffered bullying associated with the name and decided to switch to Rhea for "a fresh start".[7]
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- The listed year refers to the date of the ceremony.
- Tied with Olivia Colman for The Night Manager.
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