Age: 71
female
Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress and comedian. Often described as a character actor, she is known for her complex and versatile roles across the stage and screen. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and frequently works in Chicago theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the 1985 play My Thing of Love. She went on to receive six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in A Doll's House, Part 2 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Her other Tony-nominated roles were for November (2008), The Other Place (2010), Misery (2016), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). She gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris on the sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) and its spinoff The Conners (2018–present), for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in Hacks (2022), and her other Emmy-nominated roles include 3rd Rock from the Sun (1999), Monk (2006), Desperate Housewives (2007), The Big Bang Theory (2016), Getting On (2013–2015), and Horace and Pete (2016). She also appeared on The Norm Show (1999–2001), Frasier, and The Dropout (2022). In film, Metcalf is best known for her performance as Marion McPherson in Greta Gerwig's comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017). She was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. From 1995, she has voiced Mrs. Davis, the mother of Andy, in the Toy Story franchise, and voiced Sarah Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002). Other notable film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Uncle Buck (1989), JFK (1991), Dear God (1996), Georgia Rule (2007) and Scream 2 (1997).
Laurie Metcalf
Felicia Culotta
for Felicia Culotta in American Crime Story: The Slandering of Britney Spears
Suggested by danepeplinski
The season would take place during the late 2000s with some flashbacks of the early 2000s when Britney Spears was a new name and a big name. It would focus on Britney Spears but also 2 other perspectives. It would take on how tabloid media moguls Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton used their power to destroy Britney Spears and not only use her as a piggy bank to profit off of her suffering but also how they painted her to be a bad person and had the paparazzi smother her to mentally damage her to get worse so they can get more famous and make more money off of her. As a gay man myself, I want to put out a message of fragile egos and insecurity in gay men along with how misogynistic, racist, and internally homophobic they can be. The other story perspective would take on the horrible men in Britney’s life. Her father who used her to make money off of her, Kevin Federline and Sam Lufti who mentally damaged her which caused her to lose herself and her mental health to decline.
