Ozark is one of the most popular shows on Netflix because of how it is able to capture the life of someone entangled in a money-laundering scam and the threat of a drug cartel. That said, one of the most well-known antagonists on Ozark is Helen Pierce, who was introduced as an antagonist in seasons 2 and 3.
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Netflix's Ozark season 4 brings back plenty of key characters for part 1 of its final season and introduces two who will have a major impact on the last episodes. Ozark follows Wendy and Marty Byrde who have become money launderers for the Navarro Cartel, a prominent drug operation out of Mexico.
Omar Navarro (portrayed by Felix Solis) is the leader of a Mexican drug cartel. He becomes close to the Byrdes, to the point where he kills Helen Pierce and communicates directly with Marty and Wendy. While ruthless, he is cautious and careful with his movements.
McTeer portrays cartel attorney Helen Pierce on the Netflix crime drama Ozark.
Damian YoungJim Rattelsdorf (portrayed by Damian Young; main: season 4; recurring: seasons 2-3) is Charlie Wilkes' right-hand man who becomes an ally of the Byrdes. In Season 4, they hire him as their personal attorney.
Helen Pierce is a Chicago lawyer representing the Navarro Drug Cartel in the story. She was a major antagonist in seasons 2 and 3 when she targeted the Byrdes and made them look disposable to the eyes of the drug cartel. She was ultimately killed when Omar Navarro realized she was more disposable.
Ozark: Jonah threatens to kill Helen over his uncle's death However, many fans are still in shock from the finale to series three - and it seems the fate of Navarro Cartel's attorney Helen Pierce (played by Janet McTeer) was confirmed earlier in the show.
In season 4 episode 3, minute marker 40:20, a conversation between "Three", Kerry Stone, and Ruth Langmore stating Three is named after "The Intimidator" Dale Earnhardt Sr. who drove car #3. Hobbies include shooting bottle rockets and supporting petty crimes committed by family members.
However, even though Charlotte and Jonah's sibling bond feels real to viewers, actors Sofia Hublitz and Skylar Gaertner aren't related in any way. According to reports, Sofia was born on June 1, 1999 in Richmond, Virginia to Keiran Lawrence Gaugan and Sosie Hublitz.
Since then, in an interview with The Daily Beast, Mundy explained that when to end the show was always Netflix's decision, but he'd made clear to the streamer that he wanted advanced notice, so he could bring it to a satisfying close.
Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer), a.k.a. dollar store Jane Lynch, continues to be stone-cold as the cartel's lawyer, even though her daughter is spending the summer with her. Just wait for how that one turns out. Charlotte keeps storming out of rooms and acting entitled, Jonah keeps finding new gadgets and shooting stuff.
He is believed to be single. Lisa Emery, who is best known for her role as Darlene Snell in the Netflix show, was born on January 29, 1952, making the actress 70 years old as of 2022. The actress was previously married to American actor Lisa Emery between 1990 and 2003.
“Ozark” fans who have finished the fourth and final season of the Netflix series are no doubt still mourning the death of Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner), who was shot to death in the final moments of the show.
Atlanta, GeorgiaOn TV, viewers see the Byrde family travel through Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois. But according to Decider, Ozark is filmed in Atlanta, Georgia around the Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier area.
19 years oldRuth Langmore, portrayed by actress Julia Garner, is a major character in the Netflix series Ozark. She is 19 years old when the series begins and makes her first appearance in season 1, initially meeting Marty Byrde by stealing money from the family's room at the Lazy O Motel.
Helen Pierce is a Chicago-based attorney who represents the cartel in Ozark season two, but she finally has her comeuppance at the end of season three.
Fans were treated to a third season of Ozark which dropped on Netflix back in March 2020, and they have already binge-watched their way through the 10 episodes. The latest series focussed on the Byrde family setting up their casino, ready for Marty's new money-laundering operation. One of the characters introduced from the second series was Helen Pierce, played by Janet McTeer.
The cartel sent Helen to the Ozarks after Del disappeared. She is first introduced in episode two of season two where she makes it clear that she is not just an average lawyer and she threatens Marty with the violence that will be inflicted on him and his family if he doesn’t play ball.
In season one Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his family slowly descended into a life of crime and battled to keep the Snells, the Langmores and the FBI off their backs.
Janet McTeer is an English actress who starred in Netflix and Marvel’s Jessica Jones season two. She played the role of the titular character’s long lost mother, Alisa Jones.
The huge twist at the end of the series is when Nelson ( Nelson Bonilla) kills Helen and Navarro (Felix Solis) tells Marty and Wendy how this is the start of increased cooperation between the three of them.
Helen is a whole new antagonist introduced to the mix for the second run.
Season one saw Marty Byrde (Bateman) relocate his family to the lakeside community at the Ozarks in Missouri in order to launder five million dollars for a Mexican drug cartel. He met some trouble along the way, and what looked like a short-term project is now set to keep him occupied for a few more years.
Who is Charlotte Byrde? The 16-year-old daughter of Marty and Wendy, who is torn away from a vibrant social life in Chicago to stew away in the Ozarks with her family.
Jason Bateman’s suburban crime drama Ozark is back for a second season on Netflix. Season one saw Marty Byrde (Bateman) relocate his family to the lakeside community at the Ozarks in Missouri in order to launder five million dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.
Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde. Who is Marty Byrde? A financial planner whose side gig as a money launderer for the second largest drug cartel in Mexico became his full-time job when it was revealed his partner had been skimming money off the top.
Where have I seen Jason Bateman before? He has been acting since he was a teenager, starring in Little House on the Prairie and Teen Wolf Too in the 1980s amidst other minor TV and film roles. He then had a major resurgence in the 2000s with his role as Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, which led to a stint as Hollywood’s go-to straight man in comedies such as Horrible Bosses, Couples Retreat, Juno, The Break-Up and Dodgeball, to name but a few.
Who is Ruth Langmore? The young matriarch of a family which runs the small-time criminal trade around the Ozark lakes.
Who is Helen Pierce? The drug cartel’s lawyer, who has stepped in in lieu of Dell, to deal with Marty.
Helen Pierce ( Janet McTeer) is the Mexican drug cartel’s attorney, and she is in the Ozarks to make sure that Marty (Jason Bateman) launders her client's money correctly. At the end of Season 1, Darlene Snell (Lisa Emery) shot and killed the cartel’s top lieutenant Del (Esai Morales), after he agreed to a deal with them to sell their heroine and build a casino. When the cartel couldn’t get in touch with Del, they sent Helen to check in on the 50 million dollar situation.
On the show, Helen Pierce is played by British actress Janet McTeer, who was last seen playing Alisa Jones on Season 2 of Netflix’s Jessica Jones. In an interview with Collider, Mcteer talked about what drew her Ozark and to the role of Helen Pierce. “It seemed like a nice follow-up to Jessica Jones, and I just really liked the first season,” said McTeer. “I really, really liked the writing and I think all of the actors are fantastic. It just seemed like a great gig to join.”
McTeer has been in critically acclaimed films for over two decades, and alongside her numerous Academy Award nominations, Tony Awards, and Olivier Awards, she earned a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 movie Tumbleweeds. In Jessica Jones, McTe er’s role was of a fierce, protective mother, similar to her role as Helen Pierce, and she told Collider that she found her dark and dramatic character to be intriguing. “I wasn’t sure how I would fit in, but then I watched and realized that it was embracing the darker side of everything, and I found it really fascinating and interesting.”
Marty and his wife, Wendy (Laura Linney) have been working nonstop to get the cartel’s money laundered, and in Season 1, that attracted the attention of two local crime families, the Snells and the Langmores. Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner) eventually found a place working alongside Marty at his strip club, but now that her father Cade (Trevor Long) is out of jail, he may try to throw a wrench in the whole casino operation. But with a shark like Helen around, messing with the cartel’s money won’t be easy.
At first, she and Wendy strike up a friendship and help each other navigate the future of the cartel's money. Helen's daughter, Erin, also comes to the Ozarks and hangs out with the Byrde kids. Eventually, Helen thinks that Wendy and Marty are a liability and makes a plan to kick them out.
In Season 3, Helen moves to the Ozarks to help oversee the Byrdes' operations. At first, she and Wendy strike up a friendship and help each other navigate the future of the cartel's money. Helen's daughter, Erin, also comes to the Ozarks and hangs out with the Byrde kids.
Following Del's disappearance, Helen is sent to deal with Marty and to check in on the 50 million dollar situation.
Despite her ruthlessness, she does have a tender side. She genuinely loves her children and cares about her ex-husband, despite the fact that their marriage ended acrimoniously and will do anything to protect them, as well as to keep them out of her business, unlike Wendy and Marty who have already told their children the truth of what they do and even involve them in their affairs from time to time. She also genuinely apologized to Jonah for her role in Ben's death and said that she was sorry for a lot of the decisions that she had made during her life. She seemed to take a genuine liking to Wendy during their partnership together, viewing her as an equal and seeing many traits that she herself has in Wendy, though this ended with Ben's revelation to Erin and his subsequent death.
Female. Helen Pierce is a main character in the Netflix series, Ozark. She is a Chicago-based attorney who represents the Navarro drug cartel.
Tumbleweeds proved to be a 1999 Sundance Film Festival favourite, and McTeer's performance won her a Golden Globe as Best Actress and Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the same category.
She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Hubert Page in the 2011 film Albert Nobbs .
McTeer was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.
She appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce) as Vanessa Bell .
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production Portrait of a Marriage, an adaptation of Nigel Nicolson 's biography of the same name in which she played Vita Sackville-West, and the popular ITV series The Governor written by Lynda La Plante. She made her screen debut in Half Moon Street, a 1986 film based on a novel by Paul Theroux. In 1991, she appeared in Catherine Cookson 's The Black Velvet Gown, with Bob Peck and Geraldine Somerville; this won the International Emmy award for best drama. She appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce) as Vanessa Bell .
In 2016, McTeer played Petruchio in the New York Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed again by Phyllida Lloyd. She co-starred alongside Liev Schreiber in Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, with McTeer cast as Marquise de Merteuil.
In 2015, McTeer starred as Commander Kim Guziewicz in CBS comedy-drama Battle Creek, and filmed Exception based on The Kaiser's Last Kiss (in which she was due to portray Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz ), set for a 2016 release.
After relocating to the Ozarks, Helen Pierce decided to keep her eye on the Byrde family and what they were doing in relation to the deal that they made with the Navarro Drug Cartel, all while she was hatching a plan to discredit them in the eyes of Omar Navarro himself.
The reason why Helen Pierce decided to move to the Ozarks with her daughter, Erin, was that she wanted to keep a closer eye on the money laundering husband and wife duo of Marty and Wendy Byrde. Her goal was to monitor what they were doing so that she would know whether or not their actions were in line with the deal they made with Omar.
The patriarch of the Byrde family (and the entire reason they are involved with the Navarro Cartel in the first place), Marty is a former financial advisor who now owns several businesses in the Ozarks that he uses to launder money for Omar Navarro.
Laura Linney is back as Wendy Byrde, the embattled matriarch of the Byrde family who has turned to the dark side over the course of the series.
Jonah has always been the one who seems to take this family's life of crime in stride, but Ozark season 4 could see Jonah betray the Byrdes now that his uncle Ben was led to his death by Wendy. Whether or not he can follow through on this remains to be seen, but with all the information he knows, Jonah could become a liability for the family.
Initially resistant to her family's move to the Ozarks, Charlotte eventually came around and now finds herself a part of the family business. As she continues to come into her own, Ozark season 4 could see Charlotte working with her mom and dad in increasingly dangerous ways.
Julia Garner is back in the role that won her two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actress. Garner plays Ozark 's Ruth Langmore, once the child of a local crime family. Over the course of the series, Ruth has risen in the ranks of the Byrde family and has gained the trust of Marty and Wendy.
The fearsome leader of the Navarro Cartel, Omar killed Helen in front of the Byrdes at the end of Ozark season 3. His reasons for wanting to work with the Byrdes remain unclear, but he obviously sees value in the fact that Marty and Wendy have managed to outsmart just about everyone who has gotten in their way.
Jessica Frances Dukes is back Special Agent Maya Miller, an FBI forensic accountant who was sent to audit the Byrde's casino boat in season 3. Since then, Maya has become more entrenched in the Byrde's affairs and has a begrudging respect for Marty's money laundering skills.