Briarpatch. Actress, producer, director, and activist, Dawson started her career as a teenager in the film Kids and has been acting ever since. Now she is playing the leading role – Congress investigator and detective Allegra Dill – in the 10-episode series based on the Ross Thomas novel.

If we had not nailed it in the pilot none of us would have been there again. it just felt so profound, I’ve never had that experience before.