Tara Gregson (Toni Collette) is a suburban housewife, mother, and mural artist living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in Overland Park, Kansas.
Tara decides to stop taking her medication to uncover the root cause of her childhood trauma. This decision causes her alternate personalities – referred to as “alters” – to routinely “take over” her consciousness.
Tara’s alters – including a deeply conservative, baking-obsessed 1950s-style housewife (“Alice”); a provocative, crop-top-wearing 16-year-old who loves shoplifting and smoking weed (“T” ), and a beer-swilling, loudmouthed, deeply patriotic Vietnam War veteran (“Buck”) – have their own distinct voices, postures, wardrobe, and psychological motivations.
As the series progresses and Tara dives deeper into her trauma, darker and more complex alters emerge, including the animalistic “Gimme”, an alter-ego based on her childhood self named “Chicken”, and later, a sinister, malicious persona named “Bryce” who begins systematically “killing” or suppressing Tara’s other protective alters.
Her incredibly supportive husband Max (John Corbett) and two teenage children, Kate (Brie Larson) and Marshall (Keir Gilchrist), adapt to the daily, unpredictable chaos of her condition.
Tara’s self-absorbed younger sister, Charmaine (Rosemarie DeWitt), initially struggles to believe that Tara’s DID is a real medical condition rather than an attention-seeking ploy
Toni Collette’s tour-de-force performance was universally praised, earning her both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
Tara Gregson
Toni Collette Max Gregson
John Corbett Charmaine Craine
Rosemarie DeWitt Marshall Gregson
Keir Gilchrist Kate Gregson
Brie Larson Neil
Patton Oswalt Lionel
Michael J. Willett Ted Mayo
Michael Hitchcock Gene Stuart
Nate Corddry Nick Hurley
Matthew Del Negro Dr Hattarras
Eddie Izzard Jason
Andrew Lawrence Baby Cassie
Bailey McAlevey (1)
Rowan McAlevey (2)
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Tara’s alters – including a deeply conservative, baking-obsessed 1950s-style housewife (“Alice”); a provocative, crop-top-wearing 16-year-old who loves shoplifting and smoking weed (“T” ), and a beer-swilling, loudmouthed, deeply patriotic Vietnam War veteran (“Buck”) – have their own distinct voices, postures, wardrobe, and psychological motivations.
