Age: 39
female
Meredith Kathleen Hagner is an American actress. She began her career portraying Liberty Ciccone on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (2008–2010), which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2009. Following her departure from As the World Turns, she appeared as a series regular on the FX drama Lights Out (2011) and the TBS sitcom Men at Work (2012–2014). Hagner gained further prominence for her role as Portia Davenport in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party (2016–2022), receiving critical praise for her performance. She also appeared as a series regular on the Facebook Watch comedy-drama Strangers (2017–2018), the Quibi comedy Dummy (2020) and Apple TV's Bad Monkey (2024). Hagner's film roles include Hits (2014), Folk Hero & Funny Guy (2016), The Oath (2018), Brightburn (2019), and Palm Springs (2020).
Meredith Hagner
Portia Davenport
for Portia Davenport in Search Party
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Search Party follows four self-absorbed friends in Brooklyn whose lives are upended when they become obsessed with the disappearance of a former college acquaintance, Chantal Witherbottom. What begins as a well-intentioned attempt to help quickly turns into a misguided quest for meaning, driven largely by Dory Sief, whose need to feel important pulls the group deeper into lies, paranoia, and moral compromise. As the search spirals out of control, each season shifts genres—moving from mystery to thriller, courtroom drama, and surreal horror—while exposing how the characters repeatedly evade responsibility for their actions. The series is a darkly comic satire about narcissism, guilt, and consequence, showing how small bad decisions can snowball into catastrophic outcomes when people refuse to truly grow.
