Deirdre Lovejoy

Deirdre Lovejoy is an American actress who first acted as a child in Elkhart Civic Theatre productions and studied theater at the University of Evansville before earning a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. Her first television role came in 1990, as Rosemary Kennedy in the ABC miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts, and during the 1990s and 2000s she appeared on series including Law & Order, Spin City, NYPD Blue and The West Wing. She is best known for playing Rhonda Pearlman, an assistant state's attorney, on the HBO series The Wire from 2002 to 2008, and she played Heather Taffet, a serial kidnapper and murderer called The Gravedigger, on Bones from 2009 to 2011. Her other television work includes guest and recurring parts on series such as Criminal Minds, Girls, Orange Is the New Black and The Blacklist, and her Broadway credits include Six Degrees of Separation, The Gathering and Lucky Guy.