Never Underestimate Frances Conroy

Who’s Suddenly Everywhere? Frances Conroy.

You Might Know Her From: As Fisher matriarch Ruth on Six Feet Under.

First Location Of Her Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: As an extremely elegant Angel of Death on American Horror Story: Asylum.

Next Location Of Her Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: Reprising her role as Loretta, somewhat reformed tramp mother to Neil Patrick Harris's Barney, in the bachelor party episode of How I Met Your Mother.

Penultimate Location Of Her Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: As Maybelle Carter, a.k.a. "Mother Maybelle" of the Carter Family Singers, and literal mother to June Carter (Jewel), in Lifetime's June Carter biopic Ring Of Fire, which I promise actually existed and which I watched.

Latest Location Of Her Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: As Blythe Ballard, an ultra-rich Hamptonite on a crusade against HankMed for violating zoning laws by using a private residence to operate what is basically a hospital, in the fifth-season premiere of Royal Pains.

Where We Propose She Could Next Be Suddenly Everywhere: Her particular brand of seemingly super-passive femininity that is actually disguising a spine of pure steel would be a very welcome addition to the next season of Justified.