Rhea Seehorn
Seehorn in 2018
Born	Deborah Rhea Seehorn (1972-05-12)May 12, 1972 (age 52) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Education	George Mason University (BA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Graham Larson ​ (m. 2018)​

Deborah Rhea Seehorn (/ˈreɪˈsiːhɔːrn/RAYSEE-horn; born May 12, 1972) is an American actress and director. She is best known for playingKim Wexler inAMC's legal crime drama seriesBetter Call Saul (2015–2022), for which she was nominated for twoPrimetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the74th and75th Primetime Emmy Awards, along with winning theTelevision Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. She also received another Emmy nomination forOutstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her performance inCooper's Bar.

She is also a two-time winner of theSatellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her role as Wexler, in addition to receiving threeScreen Actors Guild Award and threeCritics' Choice Television Award nominations.

Deborah Rhea Seehorn was born inNorfolk, Virginia,^[1] on May 12, 1972.^[2][3][4][5] Her mother was an executive assistant for theUnited States Navy, while her father was an agent in theNaval Investigative Service. She also has a sister. Her family moved frequently during her childhood, living inWashington, D.C., andArizona, as well as inJapan.^[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]

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 idolBea Arthur.^[2] However, most of these roles were short-run series cancelled after one or two seasons.^[2] Among her early roles was the lead in a pilot for an American version of the Argentine telenovelaLalola, about a womanizing executive who gets turned female through witchcraft as revenge for his treatment of women, entitledEva Adams, and was filmed for the Fox network co-starringJames Van Der Beek in 2009. It was envisioned as a dramedy, in the vein of howYo soy Betty, la fea, which was adapted for American audiences asUgly Betty, but Lalola wasn't picked up for a regular series.

In May 2014, Seehorn was cast in theBreaking Bad spin-off prequel seriesBetter Call Saul (2015–2022), created byVince Gilligan andPeter Gould.^[8][9] Seehorn portraysKim Wexler, a lawyer and the love interest of the titularJimmy McGill / Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk).^[10] The series premiered on February 8, 2015.^[11] For her role, she has received widespread critical acclaim, winning twoSatellite Awards for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, oneSaturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television out of two nominations, and oneTelevision Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama out of three nominations, also receiving two nominations for thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two nominations for theCritics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.TVLine named Seehorn “Performer of the Year” in 2022 for her work onBetter Call Saul.^[12]

In 2022, Seehorn made her television directorial debut with the fourth episode ofBetter Call Saul'sfinal season ("Hit and Run").^[13]

Seehorn will play a starring role in Gilligan's next series afterBetter Call Saul, which was picked up byApple TV+ for a two-season order in September 2022.^[14]

Seehorn's film credits include roles in the independent featuresRiders andFloating, and the independent shortsThe Pitch,The Gentlemen, andThe Case Against Karen. In 2021, she starred alongsideAmanda Seyfried in thehorrorthriller filmThings Heard & Seen. Her theater credits include the Broadway production of45 Seconds from Broadway as well as roles inThe World Over,All My Sons,Stop Kiss,How I Learned to Drive,Freedomland, andMarat/Sade.

Seehorn got engaged to film producer and real estate agent Graham Larson in 2018. Upon their marriage, she became stepmother to his two sons from an earlier marriage.^{[1][7][15][16]}

She has gone by her middle name Rhea since childhood due to feeling a "disassociation" with the name Debbie from an early age.^[17]

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