"Deadwood," which just premiered its second season on March 6th, 2005 opened its plotline two weeks after Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn and centers around the illegal settlement town.
The drama, directed by David Milch, mixes historical events and characters with fictional elements to depict the lifestyle of the untamed Wild West. Although "Deadwood" marks Weigert's first substantial television role, she has instantly proven her talents, receiving an Emmy nomination in the category of "Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for the 2004 season. The show itself garnered a total of eleven Emmy nominations for its premiere season.
Weigert recently attended the Sundance Film Festival this past January for the first time with the independent film, "Loggerheads," which premiered to a packed house and received a standing ovation. Inspired by a true story, "Loggerheads" follows the journey of a soft-spoken drifter in his twenties who makes a pilgrimage to a small coastal town near Wilmington in order to save the endangered Loggerhead turtles that nest on the beach in the summer. The cast includes Kip Pardue and Bonnie Hunt.
During her hiatus this Spring, Weigert will return to the stage to star in "A Moon for the Misbegotten" at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. The play, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Eugene O'Neill will enjoy a 3 month run beginning April 28th. Weigert will play the lead character of 'Josie Hogan' a farm girl with a bad reputation who lives with her grumpy, Irish father. Through a series of accidents on one drunken, moonlit night, 'Josie's' hidden attraction for her landlord is uncovered and old truths are revealed.
With a Master's of Fine Arts degree in acting from New York University, Weigert has built and impressive resume performing on stage. She was most recently seen on Broadway as 'Poppy Norton Taylor' in the hit revival of "Noises Off." Her role in Richard Nelson's "Madame Melville" earned her nominations for both the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.
In 2001, she played 'Masha' in "The Seagull," the hot-ticket event which was held in Central Park. The play was directed by Mike Nichols and co-starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. In fact, Nichols was so impressed with her work that he then cast her in the role of the 'Mormon Mother' in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning HBO miniseries "Angels in America" in 2003.
Weigert's other Broadway credits include Lincoln Center's "Twelfth Night." Off-Broadway credits include "A Place at the Table," "Arms and the Man," "Goodnight, Children Everywhere," "Pride's Crossing," "The Three Sisters" and "Hamlet."
Weigert has been seen on-screen in the films "Two Weeks Notice," "Sleepytime Gal," "In God's Hands' and "What I Came For." She has appeared as a guest star in such television drama series as "Without a Trace," "Law & Order" and "NYPD Blue."
Weigert currently resides in Los Angeles.
Born Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane is nearly as famous as Hickok was and is known to be as tough as any man in the West. Raised in the mining camps of Wyoming, she is a legendary horsewoman and crack shot, and is rumored to have been an Army scout for Custer.
A notorious boozer and brawler - and one of the most foul-mouthed frontierspeople of either sex - Jane was loyal and absolutely dedicated to Wild Bill, and his murder sends her into a terrible bender. "The direction of this camp makes me f*cking sick," she says, leaving Deadwood. "And it bores the shit out of me."
Still, with acquaintances like Charlie Utter and the little girl Sofie Metz, Jane has as much connection to Deadwood as to any other place, and often drifts in and out of town. Her apparent immunity to small pox makes her extremely valuable as a nurse during the small pox outbreak.
