Mireille Enos

Mireille Enos
File:Mireille Enos set of The Killing March 2012 (cropped).jpg Enos in 2012
Born	Marie Mireille Enos (1975-09-22) September 22, 1975 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	Brigham Young University (BA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Alan Ruck (m. 2008)
Children	2

Marie Mireille Enos (/m[unsupported input]eɪ ˈiːnəs/; born September 22, 1975) is an American actress. Drawn to acting from a young age, she graduated in performing arts from Brigham Young University, where she was awarded the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. Having made her acting debut in the 1994 television film Without Consent, she has since received nominations for a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Emmy Award.

Early in her career, Enos appeared variously as a guest star on such television shows as Sex and the City and The Education of Max Bickford among others. She made her feature film debut with a minor part in the 2001 romantic comedy Someone Like You, but garnered wider attention for her role as Honey in the 2005 Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her performance in the latter earned her a nomination for Best Featured Actress at the Tony Awards. She again ventured into television roles and landed the role of twins Kathy and JoDean Marquart in the HBO drama series Big Love.

Enos' breakout role was on the AMC crime drama series The Killing; she played Sarah Linden, a Seattle-based police officer for the show's four seasons from 2011 to 2014. Her performance garnered her critical acclaim and earned her nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award. Enos starred as Karin Lane in the 2013 disaster film World War Z and Kathleen Hall in the 2014 romantic drama If I Stay; both of the films were blockbuster productions. She continued to draw praise for her work in independent films like Never Here (2017). Enos starred as the lead character in the short-lived ABC legal thriller The Catch. In 2019, she appeared in the Amazon/BBC co-production of Good Omens as Carmine "Red" Zuigiber, a war correspondent who is actually War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2019, she appeared as Marissa Wiegler in action drama streaming television series Hanna, based on the 2011 film of the same name, on Amazon Prime Video.

Early life

Enos was born on September 22, 1975, the daughter of Monique, a French teacher, and Jon Goree Enos. Her father was American, from Texas, and her mother was French. She is the fourth of five children, all of whom work in the arts industry in some capacity. Her brothers are Jongiorgi and Raphael, and sisters are Veronique and Ginger. Her younger sister, Ginger, is a modern dancer.

Her family moved to Houston, Texas when Enos was five years old. There, she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Enos studied theater at Brigham Young University, graduating with a bachelor of arts in acting in 1997. While a student, she won the Irene Ryan Award at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., an award annually presented to the nation's top collegiate actor.

Career

1994–2010

Enos made her screen acting debut in the television film Without Consent (1994). She made her feature film debut with small role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You (2001) starring Ashley Judd. On television she had number of guest-starring parts in numerous shows, including Sex and the City, Strong Medicine, Rescue Me, Without a Trace, Crossing Jordan, CSI: Miami, Medium and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

She also appeared in several stage productions. She played Perdita in the 2002 Shakespeare Theatre Company production of The Winter's Tale at the Lansburgh Theater in Washington, DC. She appeared in the 2005 Broadway revival production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which starred Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin. For her performance she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

In 2007, Enos joined the cast of the HBO drama series Big Love about a polygamous family. She played the roles of twin sisters JoDean Marquart and Kathy Marquart. She was a regular cast member in the third and fourth seasons.

2011–present

In 2010, Enos was cast in her first lead role in a television series: detective Sarah Linden in the AMC drama series The Killing, based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. She received critical acclaim for that performance, and the first season was praised by most critics. Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter in his review said "It's not until you watch Enos play Sarah for a while that it sinks in—there hasn't been a female American character like her probably ever."

Enos received nominations for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and three Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. The series ended in 2014, after four seasons.

After her breakout role in The Killing, Enos began her career in feature films. She played Karin Lane, the wife of Brad Pitt's character in World War Z (2013). The film received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $540 million. Also in 2013, she co-starred as Josh Brolin's character's wife in Gangster Squad, and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in the crime drama Devil's Knot, based on a true story, the West Memphis Three. In 2014, she appeared in the crime thriller Sabotage directed by David Ayer and later starred in drama film If I Stay directed by R. J. Cutler, based on the novel of the same name by Gayle Forman.

The film was released on August 22, 2014. Enos co-starred later that year alongside Ryan Reynolds in The Captive, directed by Atom Egoyan. Enos was cast as lead actress in the thriller Never Here, which was directed by Camille Thoman.

In March 2015, it was announced that Enos had been cast as the lead character in the ABC legal drama series, The Catch, produced by Shonda Rhimes. She plays the lead character Alice Vaughan, the head of a very high-end private detective agency in this "humorous" thriller, which aired its first 10-episode season in spring 2016, and a second season of 10 episodes in 2017 as part of ABC's "TGIT" Thursday-night lineup.

Also in March 2015, it was announced Enos would star alongside Olivia Cooke in Katie Says Goodbye, an independent film. That same year, she starred in Behold My Heart, directed by Joshua Leonard. In 2019, she appears as Marissa Wiegler, a role originated by Cate Blanchett in action drama streaming television series Hanna, based on the 2011 film of the same name, on Amazon Prime Video.

In August 2020, it was announced the 2018 film The Lie (her reunion with The Killing's Veena Sud) would be included in Amazon Prime Video's Welcome to the Blumhouse horror film anthology. It was released in the anthology's first installment on October 6, 2020.

Personal life

Enos married actor Alan Ruck on January 4, 2008. They have two children, and two stepchildren from Ruck's previous marriage. She was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but is no longer a practicing member.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Someone Like You	Yoga Instructor #1
2005	Chasing Leonard	Lucinda	Short film
2006	Falling Objects	Isobel Walker	Short film
2013	Gangster Squad	Connie O'Mara
	World War Z	Karin Lane
	Devil's Knot	Vicki Hutcheson
	Wild Horses	Mills	Short film
2014	Sabotage	DEA Agent Lizzy Murray
	The Captive	Tina Lane
	If I Stay	Kat Hall
2016	Katie Says Goodbye	Tracey
2017	Never Here	Miranda Fall
2018	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot	Maggie Lynch
	Dark Was the Night	Nancy
	The Lie	Rebecca Marston
2023	Miranda's Victim	Zeola

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Without Consent	Naomi	Television film
1996	Face of Evil	Brianne Dwyer	Television film
1999	Sex and the City	Jenna	Episode: "Shortcomings"
2001	The Education of Max Bickford	Carla Byrd	2 episodes
2003	Strong Medicine	Fern	Episode: "Speculum for a Heavyweight"
2004	Rescue Me	Karen	Episode: "Mom"
2006	Without a Trace	Jessica Lawson	Episode: "911"
	Standoff	Dana	Episode: "Man of Steele"
	Shark	Chloe Gorman	Episode: "Dial M for Monica"
2007	Crossing Jordan	Sandy Walsh	Episode: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
2007–2010	Big Love	JoDean Marquart / Kathy Marquart	Series regular, 25 episodes
2008	Numbers	Grace Ferraro	Episode: "End Game"
	CSI: Miami	Lucy Maddox	Episode: "Down to the Wire"
	Medium	Kelly Winters	Episode: "Drowned World"
2009	Lie to Me	Cheryl Ambrose	Episode: "The Better Half"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Julianna Morgan	Episode: "Identity Crisis"
2010	American Experience	Lucia Cutts	Episode: "Dolley Madison"
2011–2014	The Killing	Sarah Linden	Series lead, 44 episodes
2016–2017	The Catch	Alice Vaughan	Series lead, 20 episodes
2017	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Mother	Episode: "Father Thing"
2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Kathy Self	Television film
2019–2021	Hanna	Marissa Wiegler	Main role
2019	Good Omens	War	Main role
2023	Lucky Hank	Lily Devereaux	Main role

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Invention of Love	Katharine Houseman	Mar. 29 - Jun. 30, 2001
2002	The Winter's Tale	Perdita	Aug. 27 - Oct. 20, 2002
2005	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey	Mar. 20 - Sept. 4, 2005
2005	Absurd Person Singular	Eva	Oct. 18 - Dec. 4, 2005

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	NBA 2K21	Harper Dell	Also motion capture

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2005	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated
2011	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Actress in a Drama Series	The Killing	Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Television Series Drama		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Actress – Television Series Drama		Nominated
2012	Saturn Awards	Best Actress on Television		Nominated
2013	Saturn Awards	Best Actress on Television		Nominated

External links

• Mireille Enos at the Internet Movie Database
• Mireille Enos at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mireille Enos at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Mireille Enos on Twitter
• Mireille Enos at Emmys.com