Ann Dowd on 'The Handmaid's Tale' and Her Grownup Success
Theater, film, TV actress Ann Dowd, 63, has conquered them all. Dowd told AARP about her later-in-life success, her tales ofLaw & Orderand her summer travels. By the book.I readThe Handmaid’s Talein college and then again before the series. It stuck with me, and it scared me slightly. There was something about it you couldn’t dismiss as sci-fi, and that was alarming to me. As an actor, your job is to jump into the make-believe and make it real....