20 Most Underrated Actors Working Today

14. Carla Gugino

There have been plenty of actors over the years who have benefited from a late-career surge, few more so than the great Carla Gugino.

A star of both movies and TV, Gugino has done it all - superhero flicks like Watchmen, survival thrillers like San Andreas, guttural horrors like Gerald's Game - but it's only been in the last 10 years or so that she's really hit her stride, thanks in large part to her creative partnership with the wonderful Mike Flanagan.

From her terrifying work as the embodiment of Death in The Fall of the House of Usher to her sensitive performance in The Haunting of Bly Manor, Gugino has found in Flanagan a filmmaker worthy of her talents, who can see just how bold she can be.

It's not just Flanagan and the big world of horror, mind. Carla Gugino is always up for a laugh, her recurring roles in New Girl and Californication proof she's more than a good scare. And can, quite frankly, do it all.