Life and career

Marvel was born in Orange County, California but was raised in Mohnton, Pennsylvania. She attended Juilliard School and since the early 1990s has appeared in off-Broadway plays.

Marvel appeared in many stage productions throughout her career. She has won Obie Awards for her work in Thérèse Raquin and Misalliance (1998), A Streetcar Named Desire (2000) and Hedda Gabler (2005). She returned to the role she originated Off-Broadway of Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, which was played by Rachel Griffiths in its Broadway premiere. In 2009, for her performance in Fifty Words, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.

In film, Marvel has appeared in Burn After Reading (2008), directed by the Coen brothers, and in True Grit (2010), as the adult Mattie Ross. She has also appeared in the The Bourne Legacy (2012), Lincoln (2012), and Hyde Park on Hudson (2012).

On television, Marvel is best known for her regular role as Nancy Parras in CBS series The District (2000-04). She played recurring roles in Lights Out, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Nurse Jackie, and Person of Interest, and guest-starred on 30 Rock, The Good Wife, and The Newsroom. In 2013, she was cast in the lead role of CW's family drama pilot Blink, opposite John Benjamin Hickey. Marvel has been most recently noted for portraying Heather Dunbar in Netflix's political drama House of Cards.

Personal life

Marvel married actor Bill Camp on September 4, 2004; the couple has one child.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Ten Hundred Kings	Caroline Shepard
2005	The Dying Gaul	Kelli Cartonis
2008	The Guitar	Ma Wilder
2008	Pretty Bird	Tonya Honeycutt
2008	Synecdoche, New York	Warehouse Realtor
2008	Burn After Reading	Sandy Pfarrer
2009	A Dog Year	Margo
2009	The Other Woman	Pia
2010	Holy Rollers	Elka Gold
2010	Goldstar, Ohio	Edie Deyarmin	Short film
2010	True Grit	40-year-old Mattie Ross	Narrator
2011	Somewhere Tonight	Martha
2012	The Bourne Legacy	Dr. Connie Dowd
2012	Hyde Park on Hudson	Missy
2012	Living in the Age of Surveillance	Alicia Corwin
2012	Lincoln	Mrs. Jolly
2014	A Most Violent Year	Mrs. Rose

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Homicide: Life on the Street	Amy Marshall	Episode: "Abduction"
1998	A Will of Their Own	Diana	Episode: "#1.1"
1999	New York Undercover	Eve Flemming	Episode: "Catharsis"
2000-2004	The District	Det. Nancy Parras	88 episodes
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sylvia Moon	Episode: "Art"
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jenny Herne	Episode: "Prisoner"
2007	Kidnapped	Madeleine	2 episodes
2009	30 Rock	Emily	Episode: "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"
2008-2009	Law & Order	Attorney Grubman	2 episodes
2009	The Good Wife	Lauren Chatham	Episode: "Home"
2009	American Masters	Louisa May Alcott	Episode: "The Woman Behind 'Little Women'"
2009-2010	Nurse Jackie	Ginny Flynn	3 episodes
2010	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Frantz	Episode: "Savior"
2011	Lights Out	Margaret Leary	9 episodes
2012	The Newsroom	Sharon	Episode: "We Just Decided To"
2012-2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Rita Calhoun	11 episodes
2012-2015	Person of Interest	Alicia Corwin	6 episodes
2013	Betrayal	Janet	Episode: "...Nice Photos"
2013	Blink	Helen Trask	Unsold TV pilot
2013	White Collar	Dr. Mara Summers	Episode: "Controlling Interest"
2013	Elementary	Cassandra Walker	Episode: "Tremors"
2014-present	House of Cards	Heather Dunbar	22 episodes
2015	Fargo	Constance Heck	5 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]