Deirdre Lovejoy

She is best known for her role as Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on HBO’s The Wire. She also known for her roles as serial killer Heather Taffet (aka The Gravedigger) on the Fox series Bones, and United States Marshal Cynthia Panabaker on NBC series The Blacklist.

In 2019, Lovejoy took part in Promethea in Prison, a theatrical project that involved a reading of the ancient Greek play Prometheus Bound featuring an all-female cast that also included her The Wire co-star Sonja Sohn. That same year Lovejoy starred in a one-person play that she wrote titled Bird Elephant China. The autobiographical play dealt with a series of unexplained seizures that Lovejoy experienced in 2009. The seizures affected her memory as well as her ability to walk and talk for almost a year. She also experienced hallucinations during this time. Lovejoy has been seizure free since 2009.

From 2002 to 2008 Lovejoy starred as Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on HBO’s The Wire. From 2009 to 2011 she played the recurring role of the serial kidnapper and murderer Heather Taffet (aka "The Gravedigger") on the television series Bones. In 2011 Lovejoy also appeared in the role of the mother of a student in the film Bad Teacher starring Cameron Diaz.

In 1990 Lovejoy appeared in her first television role as Rosemary Kennedy in the ABC mini-series The Kennedys of Massachusetts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s she appeared on such series as Law & Order, Seinfeld, Third Watch, Spin City, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, Cold Case and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Lovejoy has also appeared in several Broadway productions, including Six Degrees of Separation (1990), Getting and Spending (1998), The Gathering (2001) and Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks (2013).

In 1980 Lovejoy graduated from Elkhart Memorial High School. In 1984 she graduated from the University of Evansville with a double major in Theater and Communications. She also attained a Master of Fine Arts from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts three years later.

Deirdre Lovejoy (born June 30, 1962) is an American actress.