![]() Station Eleven’s main relationship concerns Kirstin Raymonde and Jeevan Chaudhary (Himesh Patel), who first meet at a performance of King Lear and stick together after civilization implodes. But, rather than charting an all-too-familiar reality, Station Eleven weaves a hopeful story about the future of humanity and the importance of art, told through the eyes of a variety of interconnected characters. Watch free: try a 30-day FREE Stan trial in Australiaīased on the 2014 novel of the same name and concerning mankind’s recovery from a deadly flu pandemic, the release of this 10-part series couldn’t have been more unnervingly timed. Streaming Options: HBO Max (US) | Crave (CA) | Stan (AU) | Starz Play via Amazon Prime (UK) New episodes: every Thursday until January 13Ĭast: Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, David Wilmot, Nabhaan Rizwan, Daniel Zovatto, Lori Petty, Danielle Deadwyler. On the other side of the camera, the still-single Lori wrote and directed the film The Poker House (2008) starring Jennifer Lawrence, a re-dramatization of Lori's teenage years in Iowa.Premieres: Thursday, December 16 on HBO Max On TV, Lori would be seen as a guest in such shows as "The Beast," "NYPD Blue," "CSI: NY," "Masters of Horror," "House," "Prison Break," "Hawaii Five-0," and, more notably, in the recurring and amusing role of loony, paranoiac Lolly in the women's prison series Orange Is the New Black (2013). human horror opus Cryptid (2006) had a small part (First Murderer) in a contemporary Hollywood updating of Shakespeare's Richard III (2007) a deputy in the cross-country sports movie Chasing 3000 (2010) a doctor in the horror thriller Dead Awake (2016) a starring role as a lady Marine in Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia (2018) and a campy role in the low-budget horror flick A Deadly Legend (2020). Following roles in the action films Firetrap (2001) and Route 666 (2001), Lori co-starred alongside the similarly tough-styled Gina Gershon in Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) as members of a punk rock band. Into the millennium, the crop-haired, tough-as-nails actress continued to take it to the limit. She ended the decade on TV as Max, a motel clerk, in the crime drama fantasy series Brimstone (1998). ![]() It's Just Sex (1998) and an aggressive, tough-talking stripper at odds with the Mafia in the potboiler The Arrangement (1999). She did play a lone female cop in the thriller The Glass Shield (1994), then found her true calling as the bizarre cartoon heroine Tank Girl (1995), which was billed as "a post-apocalyptic comedy." Playing along the same hard lines, Lori portrayed an FBI agent who teams up with a Tokyo policewoman Yûki Amami in the crime thriller Countdown (1996) played a butch lesbian in the social comedy Relax. Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) due to "artistic differences". ![]() Started off on the wrong foot when she was replaced by Sandra Bullock in She seemed bent towards playing scrappy, hard-edged figures alongside the big action guys but Pauly Shore's inane comedy In the Army Now (1994) only proved the point. Such disparate roles as a kind-hearted animal trainer in Free Willy (1993) and the sole female recruit in ![]() However, while Lori proved to be an intriguing, kooky sort, she also proved more difficult to cast. Sister in the highly successful A League of Their Own (1992). It looked like mainstream stardom might happen for the tomboy actress,Įspecially after getting cast as Geena Davis' bratty baseball-playing Patrick Swayze's ex-girlfriend/waitress who hooks up with Keanu Reeves in Point Break (1991). Secondary roles as an outrageous Cyndi Lauper wannabe in Cadillac Man (1990) and as Short-lived series Booker (1989) as a lippy secretary, then hit pay dirt in Going nowhere fast, she eventually headed for Los Angeles and finally found an "in".įollowing a number of mediocre TV roles, she won a bit of attention on the Precedence and soon she was off to New York, where she took actingĬlasses and pounded the pavement for jobs. Her keen talents first lent themselves toward being a graphicĪrtist in Omaha, Nebraska, but an impulsive desire to act quickly took Lori was born on October 14, 1963, and spent her childhood traveling the US with her father, a Pentecostal Kinetic fighter and a misfit, types for which she would be best known. This rather inauspicious beginning would also set Lori Petty off on a career as a Tennessee, broke into TV in the 1980s, she immediately set herselfĪpart from the norm with a prime role as new owner Bud Cort's female friend in the bizarre mini-movie Bates Motel (1987). After this feisty, highly offbeat actress from Chattanooga,
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