Liz Mikel

An actress and jazz vocalist from Dallas, Liz Mikel has spent over twenty years in theater with the Dallas Theater Center and Theater Three. In 2007 the Dallas Morning News called her a fixture on the Dallas theater scene, and in 2008 she filled in for Oprah Winfrey in a special performance of The Vagina Monologues. She is best known for playing Corrina Mama Williams, the mother of a star running back, on NBC's Friday Night Lights. She also appeared on LAX, Prison Break, and Past Life and had a recurring part as Maggie on Sordid Lives: The Series. Her film credits include Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008). She starred on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, and the New York Times praised her performance. Her awards include a 1998 Leon Rabin Award, a 2004 Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award for Ain't Misbehavin, and a 2008 Column Theater Award for Caroline, or Change.