Chyler Leigh stars in Lifetime’s update to David Ebershoff’s “The 19th Wife”
by Karl J. Paloucek
Chyler Leigh isn’t content just to be on one of TV’s most-acclaimed shows, Grey’s Anatomy. In her offseason this year, she took on the lead in Lifetime’s reimagining of David Ebershoff’s bestseller, The 19th Wife, giving her the chance to explore a much different world than the halls of Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital, and in particular, life inside a polygamous sect.
The story surrounds the murder of one of the husbands in the small town where Queenie (Leigh) lives with her husband, a number of polygamous families and the local prophet for whom Queenie’s husband works as a law enforcement officer. When one of the wives of the slain man is accused of the crime, Queenie suspects that the woman has been framed, and with the help of longtime friend Jordan (Matt Czuchry, The Good Wife) begins an investigation that leads Queenie to question her own perceptions about the community in which she’s lived.
“It’s an interesting situation for her, being in a community of polygamists — she is monogamous with her husband, and her husband is a cop who works for the prophet in the town, essentially,” Leigh explains. “The prophet and her husband, Hiram, have somehow worked [Read more →]
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