Rhea Seehorn is among the few actors who can completely change the emotional tone of a scene without yelling or show-boating.
Her work has always been tidy, grounded, and effective. During her career on TV, Rhea Seehorn has played a heartfelt blend of parts. From network procedurals and sitcoms to Emmy-nominated dramatic television, her penchant for embodying diverse characters earned her industry respect and critical acclaim.
5 must-watch Rhea Seehorn TV shows
1. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)

Better Call Saul itself is more widely recognized as Rhea Seehorn's breakthrough. In playing Kim Wexler, a scrupulously principled yet gradually more morally complex lawyer, Seehorn developed a character who became the emotional heart of the show. What began as supporting work became the show's touchstone, partly due to her continually repressed and deeply interior style of acting.
For six years, her work earned her multiple Emmy nominations and her position as a homecoming star within the Breaking Bad-verse as well as television in general.
2. Veep (2017–2019)
Rhea Seehorn guest-starred during Season 6 and Season 7 of Veep as Michelle York, a witty, strategic political aide. Michelle York is not one of the show's more desperate players; she injects a bit of corporate cool and strategic thinking into the breakneck world of Selina Meyer. Her presence added some of that to the second half of the show.
Although her comparatively brief tenure with the rest of the supporting cast ensemble, Seehorn's contained energy and delivery rate was a just-right contrast to Veep's hyperspeed satirical tone.
3. Whitney (2011–2013)
Rhea Seehorn guest-starred as Roxanne, a tough-talking, smart, independent girlfriend and part of the ensemble cast of the NBC TV sitcom, Whitney. The NBC sitcom, otherwise generally receiving mixed reviews, was always singled out to be praised for Seehorn's performance as Roxanne, a character who always came up with the show's best one-liners and most realistic perspective.
This assignment permitted Rhea Seehorn to perform a tone far from her subsequent dramatic work. As Roxanne, she employed wit, timing, and physical comedy.
4. Franklin & Bash (2011–2014)
Back for another half-hour comedy run was stickler ADA Ellen Swatello, who butted heads continually with the show's two loose-cannon lead actors, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer. Swatello was formal, strict, and hard to please, a far cry from the loose manner of doing business of the title lawyers.
Rhea Seehorn's performances grounded the show's frequently slanted tone, adding legal heft and interpersonal friction to the show. Swatello had girlfriends and arcs that added to the overall plots of the shows. She was a moral counterpoint and pro peer, again an exhibition of Seehorn's range in performances of complex women who operate in systems, law, politics, or business.
5. Cooper’s Bar (2022–Present)

In the Hollywood satire world of Cooper's Bar, she gets into the mix as Kris Latimer, a hard-nosed, fiery studio executive. The short-form comedy series follows a group of struggling actors trying to make it in the business while hanging out at a tiki bar in the backyard of someone else's garden. Seehorn's own ironic, hyperbolic performance as Latimer is exactly in line with the show's offbeat sensibility.
In addition to performing, she is also a co-producer on the show, a step towards more creative authority. She was Emmy nominated for it, a sign of her skill at staying on the high wire between old-fashioned comedy and acid industry satirical. In Cooper's Bar, she has a tacky stereotype of the angry executive in her own right and yet makes her somehow credible.
In all of the five shows- Better Call Saul, Veep, Whitney, Franklin & Bash, and Cooper's Bar, she demonstrates that she doesn't necessarily have to fill out screen time to leave a mark. Her performing is characterized by restraint, wisdom, and a staunch refusal to overplay. Every character is constructed from the ground up.
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