Patricia Clarkson tells me that she’s feeling rather more famous than she used to, which makes sense. A gifted character actress, able to encapsulate patrician poise, suburban angst, bohemian disarray, uptight alpha, and everything in between, Clarkson, 59, has enjoyed a long award-studded career, encompassing film, theatre and television. So extensive is her body of work that it almost amounts to: which Patricia Clarkson do you want? The brittle, drug-addicted lesbian in High Art, the unravelling, gutsy bohemian in Six Feet Under, the cancer-ravaged mother in Pieces of April, the acidic cosmopolitan in The Party? … The list sprawls on. Clarkson has had leading roles, but even when supporting, she tends to stand out.
Her career could be best described as an eclectic blaze, frequently morphing into a fireball – as is happening right now. She has the lead role in her latest film, Out of Blue, an unsettling noir thriller written and directed by Carol Morley (The Falling, The Alcohol Years, Dreams of a Life). Before that, she portrayed the subtly terrifying southern-belle matriarch Adora opposite Amy Adams in HBO’s Sharp Objects, based on the Gillian Flynn novel. As Adora, she encompassed everything from southern primness to neurotic malevolence to deep-set dysfunction. An intricate and compelling performance that, not long after first speaking to me, won Clarkson her first Golden Globe.
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