Deborah Ann Woll may not be amongst the most well-known celebrities out there, but there’s no doubt her roles in the movies and shows she has been in are impactful. Her career started in the late 2000s, guest starring in different ongoing TV series. This would prove useful for her future career, as many of her well-known roles, including her breakout role, have come from television.

Recently, Woll’s roles are starting to grow into more popular franchises and into bigger roles. She began voice acting with the release of God of War: Ragnarök this November, taking on a small but important role within the game. She also starred in the coincidentally named Deborah, a sci-fi movie featuring a unique AI with the ability to manipulate time. As she continues to grow, check out some of her other works to see her best performances to date.

6 Seven Days in Utopia

     Utopia Pictures & Television

Seven Days In Utopia is a sports drama centered around the game of golf. Luke Chisholm, a young golfer, is hoping to make it big and become a professional. However, he angrily blows up on the green after making a mistake, and it becomes big national news. Not only does this drive a wedge between him and his father, who was also his coach, but it seems likely it will ruin his career.

Later, after crashing through the fence of a farm, the rancher offers to let him spend a week there in the town of Utopia while his car is fixed, giving him a new perspective on life. Woll plays Sarah, the prospective love interest for Luke. Though her role may be on the smaller side, she’s still an important supporting character that Woll does a great job of bringing to life.

5 Escape Room

     Sony Pictures Releasing

The psychological horror film Escape Room brings six different strangers together for the chance to win $10,000. All they have to do is solve a series of escape rooms together. While it seems easy enough at first, it’s quickly revealed that the rooms are more than they seem. Not only are they deadly as they begin picking off the group one by one, but each of the rooms proves to be a different reference to another trauma one of the group members has previously faced.

$10,000 means nothing anymore as they fight the traps and each other in their hopes to survive this crazy game. Woll plays the contestant Amanda Harper, who is a veteran and previously survived a bomb’s explosion. She does great in this role, playing right into the determination and fear that befits both the story and the character she plays.

4 The Automatic Hate

     Film Movement

Secrets are revealed in the comedy-drama The Automatic Hate. Davis Green is having trouble with his girlfriend Cassie, so he gives her some time alone and spends the evening in a bar. A strange woman follows him home, and when he discovers and confronts her outside, it’s revealed that she’s actually his long-lost cousin. He had no idea his father even had a brother before this moment.

Though skeptical at first, he investigates further at his father’s house and discovers evidence that he may have an uncle after all, and decides to go after his cousin to try and meet his uncle and find out what had happened. Woll plays Cassie, and despite playing a smaller role in the movie, she is important to driving the plot forward. Her understanding of the character, the bitterness she is able to erupt, and how she affects Davis is evident and an important part of the movie.

3 True Blood

     Warner Bros.

True Blood is a pretty well-known vampire TV series. Based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries novel series, the show is set in a fictional future where a synthetic blood product has allowed vampires to come out of the woodwork and reveal their presence now that they no longer have to pray on humans. The main character of True Blood, Sookie Stackhouse, is already an odd one out due to her telepathic powers, but when she falls for a vampire she meets, new problems begin to arise.

The series focuses on the struggles the vampires face to try and gain their rights as different anti-vampire organizations strike back, and Sookie is the human caught in the middle of all of it. This was Woll’s breakout role, taking on the role of Jessica Hamby. This once human now vampire character has a lot of facets and a lot of ups and downs throughout the series, all wonderfully portrayed by her as she only adds onto the nuances and really brings Jessica to life.

2 Ruby Sparks

     Fox Searchlight Pictures

The rom-com Ruby Sparks is all about a fictional character miraculously coming to life. Calvin Weir-Fields, a writer, had early success but now struggles to continue his career, not finding the success or inspiration he had with his first book. After his therapist suggests he try to write a page about someone who likes his dog, he ends up writing about a young woman he had dreamed of, creating the story of Ruby Sparks and writing about her falling in love with him.

He’s surprised to later find her in her kitchen, the fictional woman of his dreams brought to life. However, he still manages to control her through his writing, bringing strain to the relationship he tries to forge with her. Woll plays Lila, Calvin’s ex who left him before the events of the movie. Though she has a small role, it’s important for the turning point in the story when Lila confronts Calvin, claiming he only cares about himself. She shares a powerful moment in one of the best scenes of the film, and is an integral part of the movie.

1 Daredevil

     Netflix

The Netflix show Daredevil tells the story of the popular Marvel vigilante. This superhero TV series follows the life of Matt Murdock, the blind attorney and vigilante as he fights crime on the streets of New York, protecting Hell’s Kitchen. He has the opportunity to take the law into his own hands and fights off different gangs and villains in the hopes to make the streets safer. His biggest antagonist, Kingpin, doesn’t want to make it easy for him though, no matter whether he is free or locked behind bars.

Woll plays Karen Page, one of Murdock’s first clients who was framed for murder. After she is released, she becomes the office assistant and one of his romantic interests, even crossing over into other Marvel series during the Defenders Saga, playing Page in The Defenders and The Punisher. She brings Page to life in a great way, really making all of her choices and feelings genuine even through the screen.