A 1990s screen siren, once known for her glossy brunette look and roles opposite leading men such as Kevin Costner and Ben Affleck, stepped out this week with striking gray hair.
The actress first made waves early in her career as the star of a brief 1990s revival of a classic 1960s soap opera — a cult favorite that would later inspire a Johnny Depp film adaptation.
Her movie résumé soon expanded with a romantic role opposite Costner in a biographical drama about one of the Old West’s most famous lawmen, followed by a turn alongside Affleck in a now largely overlooked horror thriller.
Throughout the decade, she also shared the screen with an impressive roster of talent, including Joaquin Phoenix, Liev Schreiber, Billy Crudup and screen legend Sidney Poitier.
In more recent years, she has continued to appear in prestige television, with credits on acclaimed series including House of Cards, Mad Men and The Pitt. Off screen, she was once married to the leading man of a beloved Ryan Murphy series.
Spotted in Los Angeles on Monday, the actress embraced her silver hair while looking effortlessly chic in a printed caftan that evoked the easy glamour of 1970s Hollywood.
So, can you name the star?
The 1990s brunette beauty, known for roles opposite Kevin Costner and Ben Affleck, was seen this week sporting gray hair.
During her silver-haired sighting in Los Angeles on Monday, the veteran actress cut a stylish figure in a print caftan that brought back memories of 1970s Hollywood
She was also seen this week heading out to run errands dressed in an elegant patterned blouse and blue jeans
She is none other than Joanna Going, who made her film debut as the common law wife of Kevin Costner’s title character in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp.
The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Going for comment.
Helmed by Silverado director Lawrence Kasdan, the Old West epic assembled a glittering cast sprinkled with names like Dennis Quaid, Catherine O’Hara, Gene Hackman, Michael Madsen, Bill Pullman, Tom Sizemore and Isabella Rossellini.
Her season two arc on House of Cards as First Lady Tricia Walker, the object of manipulation by Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood, won her a new fanbase.
She was spotted this week in her caftan collecting a delivery outside her house, and in an elegant pink blouse with jeans as she dashed about running errands.
Born in Washington, DC, in 1963, Joanna Catherine Going studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and then broke into acting via soap operas.
In 1991, she was on the short-lived revival of the cult 1960s horror-tinged soap opera Dark Shadows, which Tim Burton later adapted into a 2012 dark comedy starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Going was one of the principal stars of the 1990s reboot of the show in the dual role of the governess Victoria Winters and the ghost Josette du Pres, but what might have proven a breakthrough for her was canceled after a single season of 12 episodes.
Among her castmates was Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was all of nine when the series was filmed and had yet to become a full-fledged child star in Angels in the Outfield.
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She is none other than Joanna Going, who made her film debut as the common law wife of Kevin Costner’s title character in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp
In 1998, Going (left) and Rose McGowan starred in the Dean Koontz adaptation Phantoms alongside Ben Affleck (right), Liev Schreiber and Peter O’Toole
Her season two arc on House of Cards as First Lady Tricia Walker alongside Michel Gill as President Garrett Walker won her a new fanbase
Going featured on Mad Men (right) as half of a swinging couple completed by the Ted McGinley character (left) who propositioned Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his wife Megan (Jessica Paré)
Three years after Dark Shadows was canceled, Going landed the role of the Costner character’s love interest Josie Marcus on Wyatt Earp.
The film propelled her to a new level of public recognition, and as the 1990s thundered ahead she was cast among the era’s top names.
In 1995, another Western came her way in the shape of the miniseries Children of the Dust, led by Sidney Poitier as a bounty hunter at the top of a cast list that also contained Billy Wirth, Jim Caviezel and Charlie’s Angels bombshell Farrah Fawcett.
Then in 1997, Going was one of the principal players in Inventing the Abbotts, a coming-of-age drama set in the 1950s starring her, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Connelly as sisters opposite Billy Crudup, Joaquin Phoenix and an uncredited Michael Keaton.
The following year, Going and Rose McGowan starred in the Dean Koontz adaptation Phantoms alongside Ben Affleck, Liev Schreiber and Peter O’Toole.
McGowan and Going played sisters who return to their hometown to discover the residents have been mysteriously dying as a result of a menace they attempt to uncover with the help of a sheriff played by Affleck.
The picture was a disastrous flop that was savaged by the critics and is now best-remembered as a punchline in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, in which Affleck – playing a parody of himself – is told: ‘Affleck, you the bomb in Phantoms, yo!’
During the 2000s, Going jobbed around on such classic television programs of the era as Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Criminal Minds.
In 1991, she was on the short-lived revival of the cult 1960s horror-tinged soap opera Dark Shadows playing governess Victoria Winters
(from left) Going, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix and Liv Tyler all starred in the 1996 coming-of-age drama Inventing the Abbotts, set in the 1950s
In 1995 she was on the Western miniseries Children of Fate, led by Sidney Poitier (left) as a bounty hunter at the top of a cast list that also contained Billy Wirth (right)
As recently as last year, TV viewers could see her in the recurring role of the patient Theresa on the Noah Wyle-starring medical drama The Pitt
In 2004, she exchanged vows with actor Dylan Walsh, with whom she had worked eight years previously in the TV movie Eden.
When they married, Walsh had just become a TV star alongside the late Julian McMahon on Ryan Murphy’s smash hit dramedy Nip/Tuck.
The couple, who welcomed their now 22-year-old daughter Stella before their wedding, ultimately wound up divorced by 2012.
In 2013, Going featured on Mad Men as half of a swinging couple who proposition Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his wife Megan (Jessica Paré).
The next year she enjoyed her season-long run on House of Cards as the American first lady who, along with her husband, is maneuvered out of the White House and replaced by the power couple played by Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
As recently as last year, TV viewers could see her in the recurring role of the patient Theresa on the Noah Wyle-starring medical drama The Pitt.
