She’s been in more movies than you realize, and you know her from her miraculous way of disappearing into a character and erasing all sense of herself. Margo Martindale is one of those talented actresses who have built a career on unassuming but effective character parts, becoming part of the tapestry of every movie she inhabits, lending her own talented threads to the work, and then slipping out of it without ego or showiness, even when she’s chewing the scenery and going head-to-head with Meryl Streep. Such was the case in her amazing work in ‘August: Osage County’ which we just revisited the other day. It’s a typical Martindale tour-de-force: quietly powerful, poignantly surprising, and absolutely redolent of the humanity she so exquisitely embodies. That sort of work easily earns her this crowning as Dazzler of the Day.
