Mireille Enos is one of those actresses who found steady work in Hollywood for quite awhile before finally making it big. She has been plugging away at the television and movie scenes since 1994 but didn't get her breakout role on an HBO television series. Before that big break, she filled her résumé with supporting roles, though she has recently taken the lead in several of her projects.
Mireille was born on September 22, 1975, in to a Texan father and a French mother in Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of five, she moved to her father's native state, where she attended a performing arts school in Houston. It was there that she acquired her taste for acting, which set her up for what would eventually become her career. After graduating high school, she decided to go to college at Brigham Young University in Utah, though acting remained a passion.
In 1994, she got her first role on a TV movie called "Without Consent" starring Jennie Garth and Johnny Galecki. She followed that in 1996 with another TV movie, "Face of Evil," starring Tracey Gold and Shawnee Smith. Television proved to be a good medium for her, and she even managed to land a guest spot in an episode of the cultural touchstone series "Sex and the City."
In 2001, she starred in her first nontelevision movie role in the romantic comedy "Someone Like You... " starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd. Shortly afterward, she returned to television, where she would get several guest-starring parts over the next decade. She had one-off roles in such series as "Strong Medicine," "Rescue Me," and "Without a Trace." Along the way, she also made several short films and took parts in theater productions as well.
Enos' ability to adapt to film, television, and theater helped her make a living as an actor despite the fact that she wasn't a big star or household name. Her decision to pursue theater between film and TV gigs would prove to be very fortuitous, since this is how she would eventually meet her future husband, Alan Ruck.
Ruck is probably best known for his role as Cameron Frye, the best friend of the lead character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." The film was a surprise runaway hit when it came out, and helped Ruck pave out a long career as an actor. Like Enos, he liked mixing theater in with his other acting jobs, taking a role in the 2005 Broadway revival "Absurd Person Singular." It was here that he met Enos, who has said that she had a huge crush on him but that it took her awhile to find out if he was single. After finding out that he was divorced, she pursued him romantically and had what she refers to as a showmance, meaning a romance between two people working on the same theater show. The happy couple married in 2008 and had their first child, a girl named Vesper Vivianne, in 2010.
Enos later got the chance to audition for a pivotal role in an HBO drama as twins Kathy and JoDean Marquart. She won the role and started getting the attention of casting directors with her nuanced performances as both characters. She starred in a total of twenty-five episodes over a three-year span, which was her most steady acting gig by far up to that point. Suddenly, things were looking up for Enos after years of toiling away in small supporting roles for television.
The year 2010 was a huge turning point for Enos in her personal and professional life. Not only was her daughter born that year, she was cast as the lead in the AMC cable drama "The Killing." She filmed the pilot while she was still pregnant with her daughter and then waited to see if the network would pick the show up. By the time it did, she had already given birth to Vesper and was ready to work on the additional twelve episodes ordered.
Appearing in "The Killing" was a boon to her career, since it got her a great deal of attention and even earned her an Emmy award nomination. It was during this time that she was cast as the wife of Brad Pitt's character in "World War Z," a film adaptation of the zombie book by Max Brooks. Since then, she has signed on for three more films while still filming the third season of "The Killing." Enos' career shows no sign of stopping, and she will next be seen in "Devil's Knot" with Reese Witherspoon and Stephen Moyer.
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