13 Facts About Rhea Seehorn

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Deborah Rhea Seehorn is an American actress and director.

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Rhea Seehorn is best known for playing attorney Kim Wexler in AMC's Better Call Saul, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Rhea Seehorn received another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her performance in Cooper's Bar.

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Deborah Rhea Seehorn was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 12,1972.

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Rhea Seehorn's mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy, while her father was an agent in the Naval Investigative Service.

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Rhea Seehorn's family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Washington, DC and Arizona, as well as in Japan.

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Rhea Seehorn continued pursuing the visual arts, but had a growing passion for acting and was introduced to contemporary theater in college.

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Rhea Seehorn worked many ancillary positions in the theater industry in DC to try to get noticed.

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Rhea Seehorn 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.

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Rhea Seehorn 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.

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In May 2014, Rhea Seehorn was cast in the Breaking Bad spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul, created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.

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In 2022, Rhea Seehorn made her television directorial debut with the fourth episode of Better Call Saul's final season.

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Rhea Seehorn married film producer and real estate agent Graham Larson in 2018, becoming the step-mother to his two sons from an earlier marriage.