But as Abby tries to find out what really happened to Kaycee, she unearths an even more disturbing secret-a ritual called “The Game,” which will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Ībby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Ritter and her dog Mikey split their time between New York and Los Angeles.It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. In 2012, Ritter launched her production company Silent Machine where she juggles many projects in various stages of development, always with the objective of highlighting complex female protagonists. Her body of work has subsequently spanned film, television, theatre, writing, producing, music, and fashion design.

Growing up in a small-town farm in rural Pennsylvania, Ritter started her career in front of the camera as a model at 15-years-old.

Additional acting roles include her critically acclaimed turn as Jane Margolis on AMC's hit series, Breaking Bad (2008), the titular character in the cult favorite Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23 (2012), Big Eyes (2014) directed by Tim Burton, indie darling Listen Up Philip (2014), Life Happens (2011) which she co-wrote and co-produced, as well as roles in Veronica Mars (2014), The Blacklist (2013), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and She's Out of My League (2010). She will also play Jessica Jones in The Defenders (2017) and the second season of Marvel's 'Jessica Jones'. Her performance, which earned her a prestigious Critics Choice nomination, a Saturn nomination, a Webby Award and a Glamour Best International TV Actress Award, has received rave reviews with the show being celebrated by critics and audiences alike for its groundbreaking depiction of a reluctant anti-super-heroine with an alcohol problem and a wicked case of PTSD who will not let a sexual assault from her past define her. Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones in the Peabody, Hugo, and Emmy Award-winning Netflix original series, Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015).

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