naomi grossman played pepper in american horror story asylum.
naomi grossman played pepper in american horror story asylum.
who played pepper in american horror story asylum?
naomi grossman
bullet::::- pepper (portrayed by naomi grossman) is microcephalic and one of the inmates at briarcliff, who is the first to appear in multiple seasons of the series. as revealed in the show's fourth season, "freak show", pepper was placed in an orphanage by her older sister rita before she was found by elsa mars. made into the first performer in elsa's sideshow while receiving an education, pepper came to see elsa as a mother figure as she helped her gain a "husband" in another pinhead named salty and ma petite as her baby. but after salty and ma petite die, elsa decides it would be best for pepper to leave the freak show and live with her sister, who was uncomfortable with the idea at first. a few years after the events of "freak show", despite helping around the house, pepper ended up becoming an inmate at briarcliff after being claimed to have drowned rita's baby boy and cut off his ears. she gives lana a rose which pricks her when she arrives at the asylum for the first time, and mary eunice reveals to her the reason pepper is in the asylum. she goes to the bathroom during the movie night in "nor'easter" and doesn't return, causing sister jude to suspect her to be one of the escapees. in reality, she was abducted by the aliens. in the episode "the coat hanger", she and a recovered grace are found by dr. arthur arden after his attempt of summoning the extraterrestrials, with pepper having been given a newfound intelligence. she delivers grace's baby shortly afterwards. pepper later reveals her innocence and that rita's husband murdered the baby because of the child's deformed appearance, the couple using her as a scapegoat due to her mental condition. pepper tells arden that his experiments are considered a joke by the aliens, which leads him into a depression. after jude's admission into the asylum, she and pepper become allies and close friends. pepper is said to have died in 1966, but lives on in sister jude's hallucinations.
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american horror story: asylum is the second season of the american fx horror television series "american horror story," created by brad falchuk and ryan murphy. it originally aired from october 17, 2012 to january 23, 2013. the premise of the second season marked a departure from that of the series's , featuring all new characters and a new location, thus marking "american horror story" as an anthology series.
american horror story: asylum