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Why Women Kill

Why Women Kill

Paramount+ 2019

Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Why Women Kill (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Sadie Calvano

#1 - Sadie Calvano (Violet Plunkett)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sadie Calvano (born April 8, 1997, height 5' 2" (1,57 m)) is an American actress. She is known for playing the role of Violet on on the CBS television series Mom and appearing on Melissa and Joey.

Sadie Calvano plays as Violet Plunkett in Why Women Kill.
Sadie Calvano is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 44 episodes.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

#2 - Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Grace (voice))

Kirby Howell-Baptiste is an English actor and writer.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste plays as Grace (voice) in Why Women Kill.
Kirby Howell-Baptiste is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#3 - Ginnifer Goodwin (Beth Ann Stanton)

Ginnifer Goodwin (born Jennifer Michelle Goodwin; May 22, 1978, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Margene Heffman on the HBO series Big Love and starring in the movies Mona Lisa Smile and He's Just Not That into You. She stars as Mary Margaret Blanchard/Snow White in the ABC series Once Upon a Time. Goodwin was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother, Linda (née Kantor), is a former educator and "stay-at-home mom", who later worked for FedEx and Apple.Her father, Tim Goodwin, formerly owned and operated a recording studio. Goodwin changed her name from "Jennifer" to "Ginnifer" to distinguish her name, and to assist in pronunciation of her name in her regional dialect. Her younger sister, Melissa Goodwin, is a stop motion animator on shows such as the Emmy Award-winning Robot Chicken, on which Ginnifer has also appeared as voice talent. Her mother is Jewish and her father is of Welsh descent; Goodwin was raised in her mother's faith.] In her youth, Goodwin was affiliated with the North American Federation of Temple Youth, and was active in BBYO at the Jewish Community Center in Memphis; she had a bat mitzvah. She went to school at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. She then graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in 1996, then attended Hanover College (majoring in Theatre) for one year before moving on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University. While a student at BU, she performed in numerous student short films, as well as several college and local stage productions. Goodwin was given the "Excellence in Acting: Professional Promise Award" by the Bette Davis Foundation, and graduated with honors. After her time at Boston University, she studied in England at Stratford Upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Institute, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The following year she earned an "Acting Shakespeare Certificate" at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After two years of dating, Goodwin became engaged to actor Joey Kern in December 2010. They ended the engagement in May 2011.Goodwin subsequently began dating her Once Upon a Time co-star Josh Dallas in fall 2011.[17] The couple became engaged on October 9, 2013, and on November 20, 2013, announced that they are expecting their first child. Goodwin is a close and longtime friend of her Once Upon a Time co-star Jennifer Morrison. Goodwin was a vegan and was a spokesperson for Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project in 2009, having adopted a whole flock herself.She revealed on Jimmy Kimmel that she gave up being a vegan after experiencing undisclosed health issues. She said: "I'm always learning and growing and changing and there were some boring health issues, and so I did actually have to work some animal products back into my diet." Goodwin says although she's never had a "dramatic weight problem", she uses Weight Watchers to keep her indulgences in check. She considers herself an extremely healthy person, and balances her diet with ballet classes and cardio workouts. In 2013, Goodwin stated that, after she left Memphis, she "up and left Judaism for a very long time", and that "for 10 years, there was nothing. No ritual. No tradition. No community". She later reconnected with her faith.

Ginnifer Goodwin plays as Beth Ann Stanton in Why Women Kill.
Ginnifer Goodwin is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Lucy Liu

#4 - Lucy Liu (Simone Grove)

Lucy Alexis Liu (born Lucy Liu; December 2, 1968) is an American actress, voice actress, director, producer, singer and artist. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. Liu's film work includes starring as one of the heroines in Charlie's Angels (2000), portraying O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill (2003), and starring roles in the main casts of Payback (1999), Chicago (2002), and the animated film series Kung Fu Panda (2008–present) portraying the character Master Viper. In 2008, she starred in an ABC comedy-drama, Cashmere Mafia, which ended after one abbreviated season. The show was one of only a few American television shows to have an Asian American series lead. In 2012, Liu joined the cast of the TNT series Southland in the recurring role of Jessica Tang, for which she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress. She is currently co-starring in the Sherlock Holmes–inspired crime drama series Elementary as Joan Watson for which she won the Seoul International Drama Award for Best Actress, and voicing Silvermist in Disney's Tinker Bell film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucy Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lucy Liu plays as Simone Grove in Why Women Kill.
Lucy Liu is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Jack Davenport

#5 - Jack Davenport (Jason Craig)

Jack Davenport is a British film and television actor, best known for his roles in television series' such as "This Life" and "Coupling", as well as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise of feature films.

Jack Davenport plays as Jason Craig in Why Women Kill.
Jack Davenport is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Reid Scott

#6 - Reid Scott (Eli Cohen)

Reid Scott plays as Eli Cohen in Why Women Kill.
Reid Scott is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Sam Jaeger

#7 - Sam Jaeger (Rob Stanton)

Samuel Heath Jaeger (born January 29, 1977) is an American actor and screenwriter. Jaeger graduated from Perrysburg High School in 1995 and in 1999, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Otterbein College. He married Amber Marie Mellott on 25 August 2007.

Sam Jaeger plays as Rob Stanton in Why Women Kill.
Sam Jaeger is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Alexandra Daddario

#8 - Alexandra Daddario (Dr. Rowan Fielding)

Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress. She had her breakthrough portraying Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson film series (2010–2013). She has since starred as Paige in Hall Pass (2011), Heather Miller in Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), Blake Gaines in San Andreas (2015), Summer Quinn in Baywatch (2017), and Alexis Butler in We Summon the Darkness (2019). She has also guest starred in television series such as White Collar, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, True Detective, New Girl, and American Horror Story: Hotel. In 2021, she starred in the first season of the HBO series The White Lotus, for which she received widespread critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2022.

Alexandra Daddario plays as Dr. Rowan Fielding in Why Women Kill.
Alexandra Daddario is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 7 episodes.

Last updated: feb 02, 2023

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