MY FAVORITE TV ACTRESSES-by Marta González López

MY FAVOURITE TV ACTRESSES

In this month’s post, I’m going to talk about the TV actresses I admire the most. I think I look up to the following actresses because they have something in common: I have discovered them while they were playing intelligent, strong, and independent women with a complicated background who never give up.

MADELEINE STOWE:

She was born in Los Angeles on 18^th August 1958. She is best known for playing Miryea Méndez in the 90’s film “Revenge”, Cora Munro in “The Last of the Mohicans”, Kathryn Railly in “Twelve Monkeys” or Victoria Grayson in the TV series “Revenge”.

I discovered Madeleine Stowe watching the show Revenge, in which she plays the evil and powerful Victoria Grayson, matriarch of the millionaire Grayson family. The show has been on air since 2011 and it has finished this year its 4^th season. It takes place in The Hamptons (NY), where a young woman named Emily Thorne plans her vengeance against those who ruined his father’s and her own life, which are principally, the Graysons.

Since I started watching Revenge, Madeleine has become one of my favourite actresses due to her ability to embody strong and independent women, her intelligence and beauty. I also think that she hasn’t received enough credit for her work, though she is a great and loved actress.

STANA KATIC:

She was born in Hamilton (Canada) on 26^th April 1978. She is a young actress who has found a huge success thanks to detective Kate Beckett, which is the character she plays in the acclaimed show “Castle”. Her role may sometimes be difficult to perform because Beckett is a complicated woman whose main objective in life is to find her mother’s murderer. However, she will not be able to accomplish this without the help of the handsome novelist Richard Castle.

Castle and Kate become partners solving cases; at first, Kate couldn’t put up with him, but later, she realizes that she is in love with him.

Besides from “Castle”, she has also worked in films such as “For Lovers Only” and “CBGB”. In addition, she has won many awards like the “TV Guide Award” for best couple with Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle) or “People’s Choice Awards” for best actress in a TV drama.

I truly admire Stana Katic, because of her personality, style and also, because she has always fought to achieve her dream of becoming a successful actress.

LANA PARRILLA:

She was born in Brooklyn (NYC) on 15^th July 1977. She is known for her roles in “Miami Medical”, “Spin City” and “Once Upon a Time” among others.

I first saw her in Once Upon a Time, which is a TV series that has produced four seasons till the moment. Its plot it’s a bit confusing. It tells the story of every fairytale character, trapped by a curse, in our world. Lana plays Regina Mills/The Evil Queen, from Snow White’s tale, character with whom I fell in love, not because of the wickedness, but because her endless seek for a happy ending and her willpower to become a better person.

Lana Parrilla hasn’t had much professional success. However, her personal life seems rather wonderful, she has just married Fred Di Blasio and she counts with thousands of fans over the world.

She has become one of my idols due to her personality, kindness and goofiness.

ELIZABETH MITHELL:

She was born in Los Angeles on 27^th March 1970. Some of her most-known roles are: Juliet Burke in “Lost”, Carol Newman in the film “The Santa Clause”, Erica in “V” and Ingrid in “Once Upon a Time”.

For me, I will always remember her as Juliet, which was my favourite character in “Lost”, where she played a fertility doctor who travels to the island for a job offer. She soon realizes what really is going on there and who can or cannot be trusted. With the arrival of Oceanic 815 passengers, everything changes. She even falls in love with Sawyer.  However, “Lost” is not a fairytale and doesn’t always have a happy ending. Therefore Juliet must make really hard decisions so as to be happy.