Nancy Johnson

Nancy Johnson is a suburban mother whose long-missing daughter Prairie has just resurfaced, alive but changed and calling herself something new. She hovers between relief and dread, trying to shield her child from reporters, doctors, and her own fear, gripping onto faith and routine as the only things she can control.

Alice Krige plays maternal love as something raw and slightly frantic rather than comforting, a woman who has spent years grieving and now doesn't know how to stop. The performance finds real tenderness inside Nancy's need for control, making her overprotectiveness feel earned rather than merely obstructive.