After three seasons of playing multiple characters on Canadian science fiction TV show “Orphan Black,” Tatiana Maslany has received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Performer for a Drama Series.
The nomination is seen as well overdue by her legions of fans, as the ability of the 29-year-old to convincingly play many clone-characters week after week is obvious to audiences and critics alike.
Because the clones were born to surrogate mothers across the globe, each has her own “look,” accent, and way of dealing with what life throws at her. Although they look alike, their personalities are strikingly different, with some being more likeable than others.
Helena has wild dyed-blonde hair that hasn’t seen a comb in months, brainiac Cosima has cornbraids and glasses, while soccer mom Alison sports bangs and dresses and acts more conservatively than the rest of the clones. And there are many, many others.
Their common bond is that they didn’t ask to be born so unnaturally and yet here they are working to stay alive because, as Alison explains to Sarah, another clone: “We’re clones, we’re someone’s experiment, and they’re killing us off.”
