Kim Dickens

Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress whose film debut was a supporting role in the 1995 film comedy Palookaville. She later had lead roles in the movies Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997), Zero Effect, and Mercury Rising (both 1998). Dickens has had several other supporting film roles, including in Hollow Man (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), The Blind Side (2009), and Gone Girl (2014). On television, Dickens had regular roles in the HBO dramas Deadwood (2004–06) and Treme (2010–13). She currently stars as Madison Clark in the AMC horror-drama series, Fear the Walking Dead (2015–present) and as Kate Baldwin in the Netflix political drama series, House of Cards (2015–17). 2Personal life Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the daughter of Pam (Clark) Howell and Justin Dickens, a country-western singer. She graduated from that city's Lee High School and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in communication. Dickens soon moved to New York City, where she worked as a waitress, to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the late 1990s she moved to Los Angeles. 2Career 31990s Dickens made her stage debut in a student production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, at Vanderbilt Universit