Malcomson in 2019 | |
Paula Malcomson | |
Date of Birth | June 1, 1970 |
Place of Birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Status | Active |
Character played | Marlene Bradford
(Episode A Dollar, A Dream) |
Paula Malcomson (born 1 June 1970) is a Northern Irish actress. She is sometimes credited as Paula Williams.
Malcomson starred as Trixie in the HBO series Deadwood and Colleen in ABC's Lost. She played the role of Amanda Graystone in the Battlestar Galactica a spin-off series of Caprica, on the Sci Fi Channel, as well as the role of Maureen Ashby on the FX Series Sons of Anarchy. She played the long-suffering Abby Donovan, wife of the title character in the Showtime series Ray Donovan.
In March 2011, Malcomson guest starred in the Fringe episode "Stowaway". She played Mrs. Everdeen in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, mother of the main character Katniss Everdeen (which portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence who also appeared in this series for the afformentioned episode) .
Explaining of becoming a mother in the film The Hunger Games, and having a reconnection again to Jennifer Lawrence in the movie and right before this, Malcomson appeared in this series as a mother and a murder victim Marlene Bradford, mother of Abby Bradford and Natalie Bradford which was forced to live on the street and inside the car way back 1999 in the episode A Dollar, A Dream after she lose her husband because of cancer and had to sold everything they owned and also trying to raise her 2 beautiful child by herself. But later found dead inside her car while drenched under the lake only to be found 8 years later. She was 36 way back at the time of the production of the episode.