Jayne Atkinson (born 18 February 1959) is an English-born American actress who has worked in film, theatre, and television. She is perhaps best known for the role of Karen Hayes on 24 as well as her Tony Award-nominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April. She was also known for appearing in the CBS drama Criminal Minds as BAU Section Chief Erin Strauss and in the Netflix political drama House of Cards as US Secretary of State Catherine Durant.

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Atkinson is married to actor Michel Gill, with whom she has one son, and with whom she has appeared on House of Cards, although they did not appear as a couple, as Gill played President Garrett Walker and Atkinson played Secretary of State Catherine Durant. They met when they appeared together in a 1989 production of The Heiress at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.

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