Natalie Zea

Natalie Zea is an American actress who started in theater and became known for her television work. Born in Houston, she attended high school in Monahans, Texas, and trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a school in New York City, finishing in 1995. She began her career Off-Broadway, appearing in The Three Sisters and later in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first major television part came as Gwen Hotchkiss on the NBC soap opera Passions from 2000 to 2002. She became better known for playing Karen Darling on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money from 2007 to 2009. From 2010 she played Winona Hawkins on the FX drama Justified, first as a regular and then in a recurring part. In 2013 she took the role of Claire Matthews on Fox's The Following, and she later led the TBS sitcom The Detour from 2016 to 2019. On film, she had a supporting part in The Other Guys (2010).