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) 1942, two years earlier, Joan Crawford had been released from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to a mutual agreement. Crawford campaigned for the lead role in "Mildred Pierce", which most lead actresses did not want because of the implied age as mother of a teenage daughter. Warner Bros. and director Michael Curtiz had originally wanted Bette Davis to play the title role, but she declined. Curtiz did not want Crawford to play the part. Curtiz campaigned for Barbara Stanwyck, who was working on "My Reputation" (1946) at the time. When he learned that Stanwyck was not, however, going to be cast, he then