Phyllis Somerville, 66, knew she wanted to be an actress when she still barely knew how to walk. But despite a lifetime of film and TV appearances, as well as stints on Broadway, the past few years have been an especially breakout time for the Iowa native. Besides appearing in the Best Picture-nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Somerville earned raves as the mother of the child molester played by the also-nominated Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children. … Back to Article
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