Kimberly Jan "Kim" Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the HBO dramas Deadwood (2004-2006) and Treme (2010-2013). Dickens also had supporting roles in films Mercury Rising (1998), Hollow Man (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), The Blind Side (2009), and Gone Girl (2014).
Early life
Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the daughter of Pam (Clark) Howell and Justin Dickens. She graduated from that city's Lee High School, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in communication (BA degree). Soon after graduation, she went to New York City to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and graduated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is also active in Open Stage Theatre. In the late 1990s she moved to Los Angeles.
Career
Dickens made her stage debut in a student production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Vanderbilt University. She has appeared in several Independent movies including Palookaville, Voice from the Grave, Truth or Consequences, N.M., Heart Full of Rain, Zero Effect with Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, and Ryan O'Neal, and Great Expectations. Dickens later has starred in several big movies, including Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin, and other commercial Hollywood productions such as Committed, Hollow Man, The Gift, House of Sand and Fog with Ben Kingsley, and Thank You for Smoking. In recent years, she appeared in The Blind Side and Gone Girl.
On television, Dickens starred in short-lived CBS drama Big Apple in 2001, and later on Showtime miniseries Out of Order opposite Felicity Huffman and Eric Stoltz. From 2004 to 2006 she starred as Joanie Stubbs in HBO's Deadwood. From 2010 to 2013, Dickens was regular on HBO's Treme, as Janette Desautel. She also had a recurring roles on Friday Night Lights, Lost, and Sons of Anarchy. In 2015, she set to appear in the recurring role on House of Cards, and will be lead actress in the The Walking Dead companion series, Cobalt.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
- Kim Dickens at the Internet Movie Database
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