Acting Freeman has appeared in several
shorts,
feature films and television series. Freeman played the leading role of Veronica Sharpe in the 2006 short film
Razor Sharp, which won "Best Action Film" at the 2007
Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival. She also starred in the 2010
thriller film YellowBrickRoad. In September 2008, she began starring in
The CW's
Superman-inspired drama
Smallville where she played
Tess Mercer after the departure of
Michael Rosenbaum's
Lex Luthor and continued in this role until the show ended in May 2011. On January 13, 2012, Freeman was confirmed to have a brief three-episode run as Sage, in the third season of
The CW's fantasy drama
The Vampire Diaries. Between 2012 and 2017, Freeman starred as Cady Longmire in the
A&E and (later)
Netflix crime drama
Longmire. In 2016, she played the Russian spy Eva Azarova in a two-episode crossover in
NCIS and
NCIS: New Orleans; she returned as Azarova in two 2017 episodes of
NCIS: New Orleans. She co-starred alongside
Will Patton in
The Forever Purge (2021), the fifth film in
The Purge franchise. From 2019 to 2025, Freeman starred as Amber Gemstone in the
HBO series
The Righteous Gemstones. Music Freeman, her brother Clark Freeman, and Andy Mitton formed a band called The Real D'Coy, in which Freeman sings and plays the piano. ==Philanthropy==