The Last Airbender Sounds So Familiar

After years of playing teenagers and young adults, the full-on adult role of Annie Marks on NBC's "Good Girls" was a refreshing change of pace for Mae Whitman. On "Off Camera with Sam Jones," the actor said, "There's something personally validating as far as, like, 'Oh, this is fun to be actually in the place that I'm in instead of having to make myself think of a different headspace.'"

Yet ironically, as Whitman pointed out, Annie is one of the least mature characters she's ever played. A single mother who turns to robbery to make ends meet, Annie loves her son, Ben (Isaiah Stannard), but has poor impulse control and tends to put herself and her friends in dangerous situations.

The series was canceled in 2021 after only four seasons, but Whitman continues to work in entertainment. She told Salon in 2012 that she regularly checks in with herself to see if acting is still what she wants to do. "But being on a set is just always where I want to be and is such a deep part of me, and I'm just so, so happy doing it and every project I'm involved in I love so much," she concluded.