Ali Larter, the guest on this 650th episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a stunning and versatile actress who has had a rollercoaster of a career that is now in its 30th year.
She was a scream queen in House on Haunted Hill, two Final Destination films and three Resident Evil films. She was seductive in Varsity Blues; hilarious in Legally Blonde; and played multiple characters on Heroes. And, in Obsessed, she went toe-to-toe with Beyoncé. But she has never been better than she is on Taylor Sheridan’s smash-hit Paramount+ drama series Landman, playing Angela Norris, the volatile, free-spirited and irresistible ex- and probably future wife of Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy and mother of Jacob Lofland and Michelle Randolph’s Cooper and Ainsley.
Earlier this year, for the second season of Landman, Larter and her castmates received a best ensemble in a drama series Actor Award nomination. Now, the show is poised to land its first Emmy nominations, perhaps for best drama series and, for Larter, best supporting actress in a drama series.
Over the course of a conversation at the LA offices of The Hollywood Reporter, the 50-year-old reflected on how modeling led her to acting via a game-changing magazine cover; the frustrations she has had, over the years, of trying to find multi-dimensional parts, particularly after giving birth to her two children; how, against all odds, Landman came along shortly after she and her family relocated from L.A. to Idaho; plus more.
