# Rhea Seehorn

Deborah Rhea Seehorn (/ˈreɪ ˈsiːhɔːrn/ RAY SEE-horn; born May 12, 1972) is an American actress and director. She is best known for playing Kim Wexler in AMC's legal crime drama series Better Call Saul (2015–2022), for which she was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 74th and 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, along with winning the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. She also received another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her performance in Cooper's Bar.
She is also a two-time winner of the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her role as Wexler, in addition to receiving three Screen Actors Guild Award and three Critics' Choice Television Award nominations.

## Early life

Deborah Rhea Seehorn was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 12, 1972. Her mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy, while her father was an agent in the Naval Investigative Service. She also has a sister. Her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Washington, D.C., and Arizona, as well as in Japan. Following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother, she studied painting, drawing, and architecture from a young age. She continued pursuing the visual arts, but had a growing passion for acting and was introduced to contemporary theater in college.

## Career

While in college, Seehorn was looking to get into theater after the encouragement of her acting teacher. She worked many ancillary positions in the theater industry in D.C. to try to get noticed. She ended up getting some major roles in local theater productions, but still needed to take odd jobs to help make ends meet; she took roles in various industrial short instructional films. She soon started getting parts in more television productions, often playing roles that she considered as "very wry, sarcastic, knowing women," similar to her idol Bea Arthur. However, most of these roles were short-run series cancelled after one or two seasons. Among her early roles was the lead in a pilot for an American version of the Argentine telenovela Lalola, about a womanizing executive who gets turned female through witchcraft as revenge for his treatment of women, entitled Eva Adams, and was filmed for the Fox network co-starring James Van Der Beek in 2009. It was envisioned as a dramedy, in the vein of how Yo soy Betty, la fea, which was adapted for American audiences as Ugly Betty, but Lalola wasn't picked up for a regular series.
In May 2014, Seehorn was cast in the Breaking Bad spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul (2015–2022), created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Seehorn portrays Kim Wexler, a lawyer and the love interest of the titular Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). The series premiered on February 8, 2015. For her role, she has received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Satellite Awards for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, one Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television out of two nominations, and one Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama out of three nominations, also receiving two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. TVLine named Seehorn “Performer of the Year” in 2022 for her work on Better Call Saul.
In 2022, Seehorn made her television directorial debut with the fourth episode of Better Call Saul's final season ("Hit and Run").
Seehorn will play a starring role in Gilligan's next series after Better Call Saul, which was picked up by Apple TV+ for a two-season order in September 2022.
Seehorn's film credits include roles in the independent features Riders and Floating, and the independent shorts The Pitch, The Gentlemen, and The Case Against Karen. In 2021, she starred alongside Amanda Seyfried in the horror thriller film Things Heard & Seen. Her theater credits include the Broadway production of 45 Seconds from Broadway as well as roles in The World Over, All My Sons, Stop Kiss, How I Learned to Drive, Freedomland, and Marat/Sade.

## Personal life

Seehorn got engaged to film producer and real estate agent Graham Larson in 2018, becoming (after their marriage) stepmother to his two sons from an earlier marriage.
She has gone by her middle name Rhea since childhood due to feeling a "disassociation" with the name Debbie from an early age.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | A Case Against Karen | Shari | |
| 1999 | Why Spain? | | |
| 1999 | The Pitch | The Pitcher | Short film |
| 2000 | The Gentleman | Girlfriend | Short film |
| 2000 | Eat Me! | Glynna | |
| 2002 | Riders | Bitsy | |
| 2006 | The Shaggy Dog | Lori | |
| 2008 | CU@Ed's | Tina | Short film |
| 2018 | Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss | Nordheim | |
| 2018 | Lost Children: Kate & Bill | Kate | Short film |
| 2019 | I Hate Kids | Kelly | |
| 2019 | Inside Man: Most Wanted | Dr. Brynn Stewart | |
| 2019 | Wyrm | Dr. Johnson | |
| 2021 | Things Heard & Seen | Justine Sokolov | |
| 2022 | Linoleum | Erin Edwin | |
| 2024 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | Judy Howard | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Jenny | Episode: "All Is Bright" |
| 2003–2004 | I'm with Her | Cheri Baldzikowski | 22 episodes |
| 2005 | Head Cases | Nicole Walker | 6 episodes |
| 2005 | Romy and Michele: In the Beginning | Ashley Schwartz | Television film |
| 2006 | The Singles Table | Stephanie Vogler | Unaired 6 episodes |
| 2006 | Modern Men | Anita | Episode: "Sexual Healing" |
| 2007 | The Thick of It | Ollie Todzio | Pilot |
| 2008 | The Starter Wife | Charlotte | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | Eva Adams | Eva Adams | Pilot |
| 2009–2019 | American Dad! | Various voices | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | Trust Me | Brooke | 3 episodes |
| 2009 | Dollhouse | Jocelyn Bashford | Episode: "Haunted" |
| 2010 | Burn Notice | Patty | Episode: "Breach of Faith" |
| 2010 | The Closer | Judy Lynn | Episode: "Last Woman Standing" |
| 2011 | Untitled Allan Loeb Project | Jessica | Pilot |
| 2011–2013 | Whitney | Roxanne Harris | 38 episodes |
| 2011–2014 | Franklin & Bash | Ellen Swatello | 11 episodes |
| 2013 | Family Guy | Joanie Cunningham (voice) | Episode: "Save the Clam" |
| 2014 | House of Lies | Samantha | 2 episodes |
| 2015–2022 | Better Call Saul | Kim Wexler | 60 episodes Director (Episode: "Hit and Run") |
| 2017 | Shut Eye | Charlie's Mother | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Martha Cobb | Episode: "Info Wars" |
| 2018 | Roseanne | Carrie | Episode: "Eggs Over, Not Easy" |
| 2018 | Robot Chicken | Karen / Teenage Girl (voice) | Episode: "Your Mouth Is Hanging off Your Face" |
| 2019 | Veep | Michelle York | 5 episodes |
| 2019 | The Act | Janet | Episode: "A Whole New World" |
| 2019 | The Twilight Zone | Martha Miller | Episode: "Not All Men" |
| 2021 | Ridley Jones | Ida (voice) | 6 episodes |
| 2021 | The Harper House | Debbie Harper (voice) | 10 episodes |
| 2023–2024 | Monster High | Medusa Gorgon (voice) | 4 episodes |
| 2023–2024 | Invincible | Andressa (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2024 | My Adventures with Superman | Lara (voice) | Episode: "Pierce the Heavens, Superman!" |
| 2024 | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Insect Queen (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2025 | Win or Lose | Carole (voice) | Episode: "Coach's Kid" |
| 2025 | Untitled Vince Gilligan TV series | TBA | Upcoming series |

### Other media

| Year | Title | Role | Type | Notes |
| 1997 | Magic: The Gathering | Tutorial Witch | Video game | |
| 2011 | Maria, Me and a Monster | Gwen | Video | |
| 2018 | Better Call Saul: Ethics Training with Kim Wexler | Kim Wexler | Web series | AMC.com - 10 episodes |
| 2018 | The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars | Penelope Ophelian | Podcast series | 1 episode |
| 2020 | Convolution | Sydney Birch | Podcast series | Audible - 3 episodes |
| 2022–present | Cooper's Bar | Kris Latimer | Web series | Also co-creator, director and executive producer |
| 2022 | Better Call Saul: Filmmaker Training | Kim Wexler | Web series | AMC.com - 1 episode |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2015 | Satellite Awards | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2016 | Satellite Awards | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2018 | Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2019 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2019 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2019 | Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2020 | Women's Image Network Awards | Actress Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2020 | TCA Awards | Individual Achievement in Drama | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2021 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2021 | Saturn Awards | Best Actress on Television | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2022 | Dorian Awards | Best Supporting TV Performance | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Drama | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series | Cooper's Bar | Nominated |
| 2022 | Saturn Awards | Best Actress on Television | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2022 | TCA Awards | Individual Achievement in Drama | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2023 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2023 | Satellite Awards | Best Actress in a Drama or Genre Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2023 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |
| 2023 | TCA Awards | Individual Achievement in Drama | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2024 | Astra Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Drama | Better Call Saul | Won |
| 2024 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul | Nominated |