Dawn Olivieri

Dawn Olivieri, man, that’s a name you’ve probably seen bouncing around if you’ve ever flipped through cable dramas in the last decade or so. She’s got this way of popping up in shows you didn’t even realize you were still watching—like Heroes, where she played Lydia, that mysterious tattooed woman who always seemed to know more than she let on. But honestly, a lot of folks really remember her as Monica Talbot on House of Lies. She absolutely owned that role—the snarky, competitive ex-wife who could go toe-to-toe with Don Cheadle’s Marty Kaan and still come out looking like she had a plan B, C, and probably D. She and Marty had this love/hate thing going, plus their kid, Roscoe, who was cooler than both of them combined. Dawn’s face just keeps showing up—True Blood, where she had a run as Janice Herveaux (werewolves! drama! southern accents, you know the drill). She even got herself tangled up in The Vampire Diaries as Andie Star, which, if you’re counting, means she’s checked off vampires, werewolves, and superheroes. That’s some solid genre-hopping. She’s guest-starred on everything from Knight Rider (yep, they rebooted that) to How I Met Your Mother. She’s also done her fair share of voice work—Pepper Potts in the Avengers cartoon and Lucy Kuo in Infamous 2, for all you gamers out there. Oh, and let’s not forget she’s graced the pages of Maxim and popped up on Entourage, because why not? As of 2018, you could catch her on SEAL Team, holding her own in the middle of all that action. Basically, if you’ve ever watched TV, odds are you’ve seen Dawn Olivieri, whether you realized it or not.