The Best Tatiana Maslany Movies & TV Shows, Ranked

It’s been a while since I watched Stronger, but I think I turned it on for the first time as a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal. He plays Jeff Bauman, who loses his legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing. I doubt that I even knew that Tatiana Maslany was in it, which turned out to be a huge oversight on my part. She’s an absolute anchor to this movie as Erin Hurley, Jeff’s girlfriend.

It speaks to Maslany’s talent that Gyllenhaal is the star of the movie, yet she still delivers a standout supporting performance. Given the subject matter, Stronger is an intense, rather weighty drama. It’s not necessarily a romance, but Jeff and Erin’s relationship is a big part of the movie. It’s a prominent thread that works because Gyllenhaal and Maslany have a great, lived-in chemistry that makes every high and low of Jeff’s journey and their relationship believable. 

It would be remiss of me to skip right past Tatiana Maslany’s short but sweet time in Pawnee, Indiana, in Parks and Recreation. Not only is that show one of my all-time favorites, but it’s also the first time that I had ever seen Maslany in anything. She plays Dr. Nadia Stasky with Doctors Without Borders in just two episodes of the comedy’s penultimate season. Still, Maslany leaves a lasting impression, as she often does with little screen time. 

She does the same as Petra opposite Nicole Kidman in Destroyer (2018). From her first scene as Nadia, Maslany instantly vibes with the show’s humor, leaning into April’s (Aubrey Plaza) bit about a Slip and Slide competition and calling out how weird the Parks & Rec department is. Her relationship with Tom (Aziz Ansari) is hilariously short, as Nadia leaves for a Doctors Without Borders trip to Rwanda, and has little to no impact on Tom or the show. Nevertheless, she’s charming and funny, and it made me want to see Maslany in more comedies. 

Tatiana Maslany played Sister Alice McKeegan in the first of Perry Mason’s two seasons. Her character is key to the season’s mystery about the abduction and death of a child named Charlie Dodson. She is the evangelical preacher at the fictional Radiant Assembly of God, which her mother, Birdy (Lili Taylor), leads. 

Given Maslany’s range, she both excels during Alice’s extravagant (to say the least) sermons as well as the meatier scenes that explore Alice’s relationship with her mother. She also has excellent chemistry with Matthew Rhys, who plays the titular character. I also tend to gravitate towards characters (and performances) that aren’t just one thing, and that could have happened to Alice in another actor’s hands, but Maslany’s performance shines in the nuances.

I will always be a defender of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Tatiana Maslany’s performance as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk. Sometimes, it can be hard to connect with a character that’s practically defined by CGI half of the time, but Maslany breathes so much life into the character. By the third episode, I didn’t even see the CGI as a distraction but as an extension of the character. She was also surrounded by such a stellar cast—Josh Segarra, Megan Thee Stallion, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Patty Guggenheim—that really helped the show stand on its own terms.

Given the legal procedural element the show has working for it, I still think it’s absolutely wild that Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t use that to its advantage and have another show with real longevity, like Loki (2021) or, coincidentally, Daredevil: Born Again (2025). That show, in all its glory, has Jennifer and Matt have a one-night stand where Matt walks home in his Daredevil suit. What’s not to love about this fun, fresh show?

I grew up watching Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley play multiple dopplegangers on The Vampire Diaries (2009), so I was always intrigued by Tatiana Maslany’s role on Orphan Black. Before I watched an episode, I knew about her playing multiple clones in this science fiction show because the entire internet was talking about her. She played more than a dozen characters and made them feel individual and complete, even if they only appeared in one episode.

From Sarah Manning to Camilla Torres, Maslany delivered a tour de force performance in every episode. For that reason, it’s a bit wild to me that it took her until the fourth season of the show’s five-season run to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The show’s universe recently expanded with short-lived Orphan Black: Echoes (2023), but it’s hard to follow in the many footsteps that Tatiana Maslany defined and walked in through the original show, which is why Orphan Black takes the #1 spot on this list.