How Anna Gunn’s career went downhill after Breaking Bad


How Anna Gunn's career went downhill after Breaking Bad

In 2017, Gunn joined the cast of Shades of Blue, Adi Hasak’s NBC crime drama about corruption within the NYPD. The show stars Jennifer Lopez as Harlee Santos, a single mother and corrupt detective who finds herself working with the FBI to bring down an even bigger fish — her own boss and father figure, lieutenant Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta). 

Gunn entered the show’s second season as Julia Ayres, a former detective who has a deep and personal history with Wozniak and his crew. She’s become a powerful political player who has her eyes on becoming the Mayor of New York City. Ayres is a Machiavellian, charismatic character, whose rapid rise to power features prominently over the season. Unfortunately, her upward trajectory doesn’t last long. Though Ayres is elected as the Mayor, she also falls out with Wozniak, and dies by suicide after he makes threats to expose her various crimes to the public. 

After Shades of Blue, Gunn has only appeared in the Jim Gaffigan comedy Being Frank and HBO’s 2019 Deadwood: The Movie. While she does have at least one project in the works — a political satire called Land of Dreams – it appears that she has been interested in theater work as of late. In 2019, she debuted in London’s West End, starring in Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana opposite Clive Owen.   

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