She played a lead role in True Blood (2008-14) which was the HBO vampire drama television series of Sookie Stackhouse. For her performance in the same, she conquered the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance in 2009. Her hard work paid off when she got nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for a long haul in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) and Golden Globe Award for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
She got a chance to try a different genre and worked in a horror film Trick’r Treat as Laurie which released in