Born in 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Paula Malcomson is an extremely prolific film and television actress with numerous credits to her name. Malcomson began her career in the early 1990s with small parts primarily in film before scoring higher-profiles roles in the Oscar-nominated film
The Green Mile (1999) and
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In 2006, she joined the cast of HBO's
Deadwood (2004) in the role of Trixie, and would also go on to appear in creator
David Milch's next series,
John from Cincinnati (2007). From then on, Malcomson made appearances in a number of high-profile series, including
ER (1994),
Lost (2004),
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999),
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), and had regular roles on both
Sons of Anarchy (2008) and
Caprica (2009) in 2010. As her list of television appearances steadily grew, she also was cast in the role of Katniss' unnamed Mother in the blockbuster adaptation of
The Hunger Games (2012). After the release of that film, she also filmed the pilot for
Liev Schreiber's Showtime series
Ray Donovan (2013).