Skyler White is a fictional character in Breaking Bad, portrayed by Anna Gunn.
23 Facts About Skyler White
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Skyler White is 12 years younger than Walt, whom she met when she was a hostess at a diner near Walt's former place of work, near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Skyler White is in the middle stages of pregnancy with Holly at the beginning of the show.
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When Skyler White learns about the diagnosis, she is both devastated by the news and outraged that Walt withheld the information.
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Unbeknownst to Skyler White, Walt has taken up cooking methamphetamine with Jesse in order to ensure his family's financial security after he dies.
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Skyler White is detained by the store's owner and escapes arrest only after faking labor pains.
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The marriage continues going downhill because of Walt's continued absences, devolving to the point where Skyler White refuses to speak to him.
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Skyler White increasingly relies on Ted for emotional support as her husband grows distant; she reluctantly covers up Ted's tax fraud.
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Shortly afterward, Skyler White gives birth to a daughter, Holly; Walt is absent for the occasion, having been forced to appear for a meth transaction with drug kingpin Gus Fring.
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When Skyler White becomes suspicious that Walt owns a second cell phone, Walt emphatically denies it.
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Skyler White appears at his apartment, having deduced that he is in the drug trade.
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When Walt defiantly moves back in, Skyler White retaliates by initiating an affair with Ted and coldly informing her husband that she cheated on him.
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Skyler White later finds that Walt has signed off on their divorce and left the house for good.
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Skyler White later admits to Walt that she never filed the divorce papers, slowly beginning to work her way into his criminal activities by reminding him that spouses cannot be forced to testify against each other.
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Skyler White suggests Walt should launder his drug money by purchasing the car wash facility where he used to work, and offers to handle the books.
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Skyler White buys the car wash and begins laundering Walt's drug money.
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Skyler White eventually brings Walt to a storage locker packed with millions of dollars in cash, convincing him to get out of the drug business, as they now have more money than they will ever need.
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When Hank tells Marie, she meets with Skyler White and is outraged to learn Skyler White knew about Walt's activities before Hank was shot.
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When Hank is killed after arresting Walt, Skyler White, believing Walt to be the killer, demands that he leave their house and threatens him with a knife.
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When Walt seems like he is going to use her and their kids as an excuse for his actions, Skyler White gets angry, but is left stunned and silent when Walt admits that he entered the drug business for himself rather than his family which seems to give Skyler White some relief and closure, and then he gives her a lottery ticket with the coordinates of the makeshift grave in which Hank and Steve Gomez are buried to use as leverage for striking a deal with the prosecutors.
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Skyler White then allows Walt to see Holly one last time before he leaves.
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Francesca tells him that Skyler White received a deal from the authorities in exchange for the GPS coordinates of the bodies of Hank and Gomez, as Walt had planned and hoped.
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Skyler White won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2014.