Hollywood Flashback: Tatiana Maslany Made 'Orphan Black' a Smash

Tatiana Maslany, who is coming off the first season of Disney+’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, is no stranger to kicking butt on the small screen. As part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she plays lawyer Jennifer Walters, who “inherits” the superhuman qualities of her cousin Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) after a freak accident, and starts to attract the attention of nefarious organizations. Maslany is familiar with those, too, as her star-making turn came in the BBC America sci-fi series Orphan Black. Debuting in 2013, it starred the Canadian actress as con artist Sarah Manning, who discovers she was part of an illegal cloning experiment and that someone is plotting to kill her and her clones. Critics were immediately impressed — The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2013 review called the series “wildly entertaining” and Maslany “fantastic” — so much so that the actress surprised the competition at the third annual Critics Choice Television Awards. Maslany won best actress in a drama series, beating out such seasoned stars as Homeland‘s Claire Danes, who had prevailed the year prior, and The Good Wife‘s Julianna Margulies, who took the podium for the category at the inaugural 2011 ceremony. Following her win, Maslany told THR that the
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