Breeda Wool

The American actress, writer and producer Breeda Wool grew up in Urbana, Illinois, and appeared in school theatrical productions before a musical theater scholarship took her to Wagner College, where she majored in psychology, theater and philosophy. She joined the Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch troupe in 2010, the same year she starred in a short that earned notice from the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the Sundance Women in Film Panel and was later made into a feature. From 2010 to 2013 she trained in acting at the Imagined Life Theater, and in 2013 she won Best Shorts Actress at the Woods Hole Film Festival for Lambing Season. Wool is known for playing Lou Linklatter in the crime drama Mr. Mercedes and Faith Duluth in UnREAL, and she appeared as Victoria in the Amazon series Betas. Her screen credits include AWOL (2017) and Automatic at Sea (2016), and she has also written and produced films.