Evan Rachel Wood big studio production "Across the Universe" (2007). Since 2008, Wood has appeared in more mainstream films, including "The Wrestler" (2008), "Whatever Works" (2009) and "The Ides of March" (2011). She also returned to television, playing the supporting role of Queen Sophie-Anne on "True Blood" from 2009 to 2011 and playing Kate Winslet's character's daughter in the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce" (2011), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. , she plays the sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO series "Westworld", for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and earned
Mildred Pierce (film) Wally cannot be the killer because he has no motive. After Mildred ends her flashback, the detectives admit they knew all along that Veda committed the murder. Mildred tries to apologize as her daughter is led away to jail, but Veda rebuffs her. Mildred leaves the police station to find Bert waiting for her outside. Although James M. Cain was often labeled a "hard-boiled crime writer", his novel "Mildred Pierce" (1941) was mostly a psychological work, with little violence. The adaptation, released four years later, was designed as a thriller, and a murder was introduced into the plot. The novel