Gunn's first screen credit was the
Quantum Leap episode "The Play's the Thing". She had a recurring role as Assistant District Attorney Jean Ward on the
ABC series
The Practice from 1997 to 2002, and was series regular as
Martha Bullock on
HBO's
Deadwood from 2005 to 2006. She appeared on
Seinfeld in the episode "
The Glasses", in the
Six Feet Under episode "Parallel Play", and on the first season of
Murder One. She also provided the voice of
Ariel in the
Legacy of Kain series of video games. '' at the
Peabody Awards in 2009 Gunn starred as
Skyler White in the
AMC drama series
Breaking Bad, for which she was nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning in 2013 and 2014. In August 2013, she wrote an op-ed piece for
The New York Times examining the
public dislike directed toward her character. In 2011, Gunn had a lead role in the
Lifetime film
Secrets of Eden, opposite
John Stamos. Her other film credits include
Without Evidence,
Enemy of the State,
Treading Water, and
Red State. In February 2013, cable network
Bravo announced that Gunn would star in a
pilot for a one-hour TV drama,
Rita, based on a
Danish TV series about a private-school teacher and mother. The
Fox TV Studios pilot was to be written by
Krista Vernoff and directed by
Miguel Arteta. In 2014, Gunn starred
Off-Broadway with
Billy Magnussen in
Sex with Strangers, directed by
David Schwimmer at
Second Stage Theater. Gunn starred in the 2016 film
Equity. Billed as the first female-driven
Wall Street film, it premiered at the
2016 Sundance Film Festival. That same year, she starred in
Clint Eastwood's biographical drama film
Sully. In 2019, Gunn starred as Maxine Faulk in the
Noël Coward Theater limited-time production of
Tennessee Williams'
The Night of the Iguana. ==Personal life==