“Drive-Away Dolls” is a huge step for Margaret Qualley’s career — in that she and Geraldine Viswanathan are the two leads of the film, and Qualley typically steps into supporting roles — but she’s actually been acting for quite some time. Qualley, the daughter of Hollywood legend Andie McDowell, earned acclaim for her role as Jill Garvey in the critically beloved HBO series “The Leftovers,” which ran from 2014 to 2017. She also appeared in the television miniseries “Fosse/Verdon” in 2019 as real-life choreographer Ann Reinking, but her biggest television role yet is her leading turn as struggling single mother Alex Russell in the Netflix original series “Maid.”
On the big screen, Qualley has shown up in projects like “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (playing “Pussycat,” a member of the murderous Manson family) and the Kristen Stewart-led biopic “Seberg,” both of which came out in 2019. In 2022, she led “Stars at Noon” with Joe Alwyn and “Sanctuary” with Christopher Abbott. A year later, she and Abbott would both play supporting roles in the Best Picture nominee “Poor Things,” which immediately made waves thanks to its stunning lead performance from Emma Stone. In 2024, Qualley has seemingly hit the ground running with “Drive-Away Dolls.”
