Tony-nominated Mireille Enos can now add Emmy and Golden Globe nominee to her list of accolades, as she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress for her role as Sarah Linden on AMC’s critically acclaimed drama series “The Killing.” As the first female lead in an AMC drama, the press continues to praise her performance in what The Hollywood Reporter has called her “breakout role.”

During her summer hiatus, Enos filmed the Marc Forster-directed World War Z for Paramount Pictures. Based on the novel by Max Brooks, she stars opposite Brad Pitt in the film, which looks at the aftermath of a global zombie war 10 years after the conflict.

Enos also recently joined the cast of the Warner Bros film Gangster Squad opposite Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn and Emma Stone for director Ruben Fleischer. The film, set in the 1940s and 1950s, follows a specially recruited team of LAPD officers dedicated to combating the influx of East Coast gangsters to Los Angeles.

From 2007-2010, Enos starred in the HBO drama Big Love. Impressed by her range and versatility, producers gave Enos a double role to play as twins Jodean and Kathy Marquart. Critics have commended Enos on her finely nuanced performance, calling her “luminous” and heralding her as “the actress who best captured the out-of-time otherness of compound life.”

In 2009, Enos returned to the stage starring opposite Annette Bening, David Arquette and Julian Sands in Joanna Murray-Smith’s comedy "The Female of the Species" at the Geffen Playhouse. “Mireille Enos nearly steals the show as Bening’s wonderfully distraught daughter” touted the Hollywood Reporter.

In 2005, Enos won the role of Honey in the Broadway revival of "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opposite industry veterans Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. It opened to glowing reviews and earned her a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Enos joined the original cast when the play was transferred to London’s West End in 2006. The BBC stated “They bring an authentically American atmosphere that makes it both funnier and more terrifying than any version of this play I have previously seen.”

Born to an American father and French mother, Enos was raised in Houston where she attended schools for the dramatic arts. While studying acting during her third year at Brigham Young University, she was invited to join a two-month project at the Classic Stage Company in New York City. She bought a one-way bus pass and the rest, as they say, is history.

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