Elizabeth Marvel

{{Infobox person

| name = Elizabeth Marvel

| image =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|11|27}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1992–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Bill Camp|September 4, 2004}}

| children = 1

| education = Juilliard School (BFA)

| awards = Obie Awards (1998, 2000, and 2005)

}}

Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969){{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/person/elizabeth-marvel-vault-0000079013 |title=Elizabeht Marvel biography |work=Playbill |access-date=February 11, 2018}} is an American actress.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/theater/14marvel.html |work=The New York Times|first=Patrick|last=Healy|title=Plunging into Uncharted Depths of Character|date=March 14, 2010}}{{cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/elizabeth_marvel_has_balls.html|title=20 Questions: Elizabeth Marvel Has Balls|magazine=New York|first=Vanita|last=Salisbury|date=March 10, 2010}}{{cite web|last=Del|first=John|url=http://gothamist.com/2010/02/26/elizabeth_marvel_actor.php|title=Elizabeth Marvel, Actor|work=Gothamist|date=February 26, 2010|access-date=March 18, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304005010/http://gothamist.com/2010/02/26/elizabeth_marvel_actor.php|archive-date=March 4, 2010}} Her more prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln (alongside husband Bill Camp); and The Meyerowitz Stories. She also had a recurring role in season 2 of the FX series Fargo and the Netflix miniseries Unbelievable. She also played "The Major" in the series Manifest.

Early life and education

Marvel was born in Los Angeles, California, and was raised in Mohnton, Pennsylvania. She trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and then the Juilliard School.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Career

Since the early 1990s she has appeared in off-Broadway plays.{{cite web|last=Cote|first=David|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/elizabeth-marvel|title=Elizabeth Marvel profile|work=Time Out New York|date=September 24, 2008|access-date=September 9, 2016|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140836/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/elizabeth-marvel|url-status=dead}}

Marvel appeared in many stage productions throughout her career. Her first professional role was as Isabella in Measure for Measure at Canada's Stratford Festival in 1992.{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/166319/elizabeth-marvel-on-shakespeare-picnic-and-the-fun-of-playing-tenacious-women/|title=Elizabeth Marvel on Shakespeare, Picnic and the Fun of Playing 'Tenacious' Women|work=Broadway.com|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/productions/426|title = Stratford Festival Archives | Details}} She has won Obie Awards for her work in Thérèse Raquin and Misalliance (1998),{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/1998|title=Off-Broadway's Highest Honor: 1998 Award Winners|work=The Village Voice|access-date=August 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629015238/http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/1998|archive-date=June 29, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} A Streetcar Named Desire (2000){{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/2000|title=Off-Broadway's Highest Honor: 2000 Award Winners|work=The Village Voice|access-date=August 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921034120/http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/2000|archive-date=September 21, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} and Hedda Gabler (2005).{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/2005|title=Off-Broadway's Highest Honor: 2005 Award Winners|work=The Village Voice|access-date=August 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627192511/http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/2005|archive-date=June 27, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} She returned to the role she originated Off-Broadway of Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, which was played by Rachel Griffiths in its Broadway premiere. In 2009, for her performance in Fifty Words, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.{{cite web|last=Cozby|first=Paul|title=Billy Elliot nabs Drama Desk Best Musical|url=http://theater.about.com/od/behindthescenes/a/dramadesknoms09.htm|work=About.com theater|access-date=June 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075145/http://theater.about.com/od/behindthescenes/a/dramadesknoms09.htm|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

Marvel first gained widespread attention on television, with her four seasons playing the regular role of Nancy Parras in the CBS series The District (2000–04). She played a variety of guest and recurring roles on Lights Out, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Nurse Jackie, Person of Interest, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, and The Newsroom.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In film, Marvel has appeared in Burn After Reading (2008), directed by the Coen brothers, and in True Grit (2010),{{cite web|url=http://movies.rightcelebrity.com/elizabeth-marvel-true-grit-actress/2291|title=Elizabeth Marvel: True Grit Actress|work=Right Cinema|date=October 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408160233/http://movies.rightcelebrity.com/elizabeth-marvel-true-grit-actress/2291|archive-date=April 8, 2011}} as the adult Mattie Ross. She appeared in The Bourne Legacy (2012), Lincoln (2012), and Hyde Park on Hudson (2012).{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In 2009 she played Louisa May Alcott in scenes from the writer's life in the documentary profile "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'" that aired on the PBS series American Masters.{{cite web |title=Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/masters/louisa-may-alcott/ |website=American Masters |publisher=PBS |access-date=2 May 2020 |date=December 2009}}

In 2013, she was cast as lead in the CW family drama pilot Blink, opposite John Benjamin Hickey.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/03/elizabeth-marvel-to-star-in-cws-blink-brooklyn-sudano-cast-in-abcs-venice-455782/|title=Elizabeth Marvel to star in CW's Blink|date=March 18, 2013|access-date=March 26, 2013|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva}} She was noted for portraying Heather Dunbar in Netflix's political drama House of Cards. In 2016, she was cast as President-elect Elizabeth Keane for the sixth and seventh seasons of Showtime drama series Homeland.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/07/homeland-elizabeth-marvel-cast-as-president-elect-keane-showtime-1201793102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728161354/http://deadline.com/2016/07/homeland-elizabeth-marvel-cast-as-president-elect-keane-showtime-1201793102/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 28, 2016|title='Homeland': Elizabeth Marvel Cast As U.S. President-Elect In Season 6|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=27 July 2016|access-date=July 27, 2016}}

Personal life

Marvel married actor Bill Camp on September 4, 2004. The couple have one child, a son born in 2007.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-marvel-bill-camp.html|title=Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp|date=2004-09-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Marvel revealed on Live with Kelly and Ryan on October 16, 2020, that she has been living with her family on a farm in Vermont.{{Cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBzlXd-1Dg|title=Elizabeth Marvel Lives on a Farm in Vermont|date=October 16, 2020|publisher=YouTube|access-date=April 2, 2022}}

Theater

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Theater

!Notes

1992

|The Seagull

|Understudy - Masha

|Broadway - Lyceum

1993

|Saint Joan

|Duchesse de la Tremoulle, Understudy - Joan

|Broadway - Lyceum

1996

|Taking Sides

|Emmi Straube

|Broadway - Brooks Atkinson

1997

|An American Daughter

|Quincy Quince

|Broadway - Cort

2000

|Lydie Breeze

|Lydie Breeze

|Broadway - New York Theatre Workshop

2005

|Seascape

|Sarah

|Broadway - Booth

2008

|Top Girls

|Marlene

|Broadway - Biltmore

2012

|Other Desert Cities

|Brooke Wyeth

|Broadway - Booth

|Replacement

2013

|Picnic

|Rosemary Sydney

|Broadway - American Airlines

2019

|King Lear

|Goneril

|Broadway - Cort

2022

|Long Day's Journey into Night

|Mary Tyrone

|Off-Broadway - Minetta Lane Theatre

2023

|Sabbath's Theater

|Drenka, and others

|Off-Broadway - The Pershing Square Signature Center

2025

|Five Models in Ruins, 1981

|Roberta

|Off-Broadway - Lincoln Center

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2000

| Ten Hundred Kings

| Caroline Shepard

2005

| The Dying Gaul

| Kelli Cartonis

rowspan="4" | 2008

| The Guitar

| Ma Wilder

Pretty Bird

| Tonya Honeycutt

Synecdoche, New York

| Warehouse Realtor

Burn After Reading

| Sandy Pfarrer

rowspan="2" | 2009

| A Dog Year

| Margo

The Other Woman

| Pia

| aka Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (UK title)

rowspan="3" | 2010

| Holy Rollers

| Elka Gold

Goldstar, Ohio

| Edie Deyarmin

| Short film

True Grit

| 40-year-old Mattie Ross

| Narrator

2011

| Somewhere Tonight

| Martha

rowspan="4" | 2012

| The Bourne Legacy

| Dr. Connie Dowd

Hyde Park on Hudson

| Missy

Living in the Age of Surveillance

| Alicia Corwin

Lincoln

| Mrs. Jolly

2014

| A Most Violent Year

| Mrs. Rose

rowspan="3" | 2015

| Aloha

| Natalie

Consumed

| Connie Conway

Peacock Killer

| Sheriff

| Short film

rowspan="3" | 2016

| Happy Baby

| Theo's Mom

The Congressman

| Rae Blanchard

The Phenom

| June Epland

rowspan="3" | 2017

| Easy Living

| Abby

Gifted

| Gloria Davis

The Meyerowitz Stories

| Jean

2018

| The Land of Steady Habits

| Sophie Ashford

rowspan="4" | 2019

| Native Son

| Mrs. Dalton

Swallow

| Katherine Conrad

Dark Waters

| Dr. Karen Frank (voice)

All the Little Things We Kill

| Deb Anderson

rowspan="2" | 2020

| News of the World

| Ella Gannett

Being Dead

| Celice Adkins

2021

| With/In: Volume 2

| Segment: "In the Air"; also director and writer

2023

| The Color Purple

| Miss Millie

2025

| G20

| Joanna Worth

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| Devoted

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| Post-production{{Cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3852434/skeet-ulrich-mena-suvari-elizabeth-marvel-lin-shaye-to-star-in-devoted/|title=Skeet Ulrich, Mena Suvari, Elizabeth Marvel, & Lin Shaye to Star in ‘Devoted’|website=Bloody Disgusting|first=Alex|last=DiVincenzo|date=January 28, 2025|access-date=January 28, 2025|archive-date=January 28, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250128190228/https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3852434/skeet-ulrich-mena-suvari-elizabeth-marvel-lin-shaye-to-star-in-devoted/|url-status=live}}

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

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| Filming

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1997 \| As the World Turns \| Photographer \| Episode: "#1.10590"
rowspan=2 \| 1998 \| Homicide: Life on the Street \| Amy Marshall \| Episode: "Abduction"
A Will of Their Own \| Diana \| Miniseries, Episode: "#1.1"
1999 \| New York Undercover \| Eve Flemming \| Episode: "Catharsis"
2000–2004 \| The District \| Officer / Det. Nancy Parras \| 88 episodes
2001 \| Law & Order: Criminal Intent \| Sylvia Moon \| Episode: "Art"
2005 \| Law & Order: Criminal Intent \| Jenny Hendry \| Episode: "Prisoner"
2007 \| Kidnapped \| Madeleine \| 2 episodes: "Acknowledgement" and "Resolution"
2008–2009 \| Law & Order \| Defense Attorney Grubman \| 2 episodes: "Called Home" and "Exchange"
rowspan=3 \| 2009 \| 30 Rock \| Emily \| Episode: "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"
The Good Wife \| Lauren Chatham \| Episode: "Home"
American Masters \| Louisa May Alcott \| Episode: "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'"
2009–2010 \| Nurse Jackie \| Ginny Flynn \| 3 episodes
rowspan="2" \| 2010 \| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit \| Dr. Frantz \| Episode: "Savior"
Past Life \| Lynn Sampels \| 2 episodes: "Saint Sarah" and "Regressing Henry"
2011 \| Lights Out \| Margaret Leary \| 9 episodes
2012 \| The Newsroom \| Sharon \| Episode: "We Just Decided To"
2012–2015 \| Person of Interest \| Alicia Corwin \| 7 episodes
2012–2025{{cite web\|url=https://www.tvfanatic.com/2021/01/law-and-order-svu-season-22-episode-6-review-the-long-arm-of-the/\|title=Law & Order: SVU Season 22 Episode 6 Review: The Long Arm of the Witness\|last=Ori\|first=Jack\|date=January 21, 2021\|website=TV Fanatic}} \| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit \| Defense Attorney Rita Calhoun \| 15 episodes
rowspan="5" \| 2013 \| King & Maxwell \| Kelly Nelson \| Episode: "Pilot"
Betrayal \| Janet \| Episode: "...Nice Photos"
Blink \| Helen Trask \| Unsold TV pilot
White Collar \| Dr. Mara Summers \| Episode: "Controlling Interest"
Elementary \| Cassandra Walker \| Episode: "Tremors"
2014–2016 \| House of Cards \| Heather Dunbar \| 23 episodes
2015 \| Fargo \| Constance Heck \| 5 episodes
2017–2018 \| Homeland \| President Elizabeth Keane \| 24 episodes
2019 \| Unbelievable \| Judith \| Miniseries, 4 episodes
2019–2020 \| Manifest \| Kathryn Fitz / The Major \| 8 episodes
2020 \| Helstrom \| Victoria Helstrom / Kthara \| Main character; 10 episodes
2022 \| The Dropout \| Noel Holmes \| Miniseries, 6 episodes
rowspan=2 \| 2023 \| Mrs. Davis \| Celeste Abbot \| Miniseries, 5 episodes
Love & Death \| Jackie Ponder \| Miniseries, 4 episodes
rowspan="2" \| 2024 \| Presumed Innocent \| Lorraine Horgan \| Miniseries, 8 episodes
Law & Order \| Defense Attorney Rita Calhoun \| Episode: "The Perfect Man"

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1997

| As the World Turns

| Photographer

| Episode: "#1.10590"

rowspan=2 | 1998

| Homicide: Life on the Street

| Amy Marshall

| Episode: "Abduction"

A Will of Their Own

| Diana

| Miniseries, Episode: "#1.1"

1999

| New York Undercover

| Eve Flemming

| Episode: "Catharsis"

2000–2004

| The District

| Officer / Det. Nancy Parras

| 88 episodes

2001

| Law & Order: Criminal Intent

| Sylvia Moon

| Episode: "Art"

2005

| Law & Order: Criminal Intent

| Jenny Hendry

| Episode: "Prisoner"

2007

| Kidnapped

| Madeleine

| 2 episodes: "Acknowledgement" and "Resolution"

2008–2009

| Law & Order

| Defense Attorney Grubman

| 2 episodes: "Called Home" and "Exchange"

rowspan=3 | 2009

| 30 Rock

| Emily

| Episode: "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"

The Good Wife

| Lauren Chatham

| Episode: "Home"

American Masters

| Louisa May Alcott

| Episode: "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'"

2009–2010

| Nurse Jackie

| Ginny Flynn

| 3 episodes

rowspan="2" | 2010

| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Dr. Frantz

| Episode: "Savior"

Past Life

| Lynn Sampels

| 2 episodes: "Saint Sarah" and "Regressing Henry"

2011

| Lights Out

| Margaret Leary

| 9 episodes

2012

| The Newsroom

| Sharon

| Episode: "We Just Decided To"

2012–2015

| Person of Interest

| Alicia Corwin

| 7 episodes

2012–2025{{cite web|url=https://www.tvfanatic.com/2021/01/law-and-order-svu-season-22-episode-6-review-the-long-arm-of-the/|title=Law & Order: SVU Season 22 Episode 6 Review: The Long Arm of the Witness|last=Ori|first=Jack|date=January 21, 2021|website=TV Fanatic}}

| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Defense Attorney Rita Calhoun

| 15 episodes

rowspan="5" | 2013

| King & Maxwell

| Kelly Nelson

| Episode: "Pilot"

Betrayal

| Janet

| Episode: "...Nice Photos"

Blink

| Helen Trask