In HBO’s period drama series The Gilded Age, now in its sophomore season, we find that Kelley Curran’s character, Mrs. Winterton, a social climber maid at the service of Bertha Russell, stands out for her strong character development story arc. So today, we’re going to cover the trajectory of Kelley Curran and talk about her role in this period piece.
Julian Fellowes, the same man who brought us Downton Abbey, teamed up with HBO to bring us a period piece called “The Gilded Age.”
Try to think of it as Downtown Abbey, but in New York in the 1800s, when the burgeoning industrial revolution created vast amounts of wealth and “old money,” families met the “new money” families, and the rivalries that ensue when some “new money” characters with inferiority “nuevo riche” complex try to show off their wealth to the already settled Big Apple high society establishment.
Meet Kelley Curran: Mrs. Winterton in The Gilded Age
Kelley Curran is an American actress whose role in Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age as Mrs. Winterton, a maid under the service of the nuevo riche Bertha Russell, has made her rise to prominence in the series because of her character story arc development.
She was born on 8 July 1991 in New York and is currently 32 years old. Prior to her work in HBO’s period drama opposite Christine Baranski, Morgan Spector, and Christine Baranski, she worked in theater for the Classic Stage Company and in the Shakespeare Theater Company. She’s also had roles in The Blacklist, God Befriended Me and The Man Who Killed Hitler, and Then The Bigfoot.
At 5 feet 6 inches, she weighs 61 Kilograms, her measurements are 38-28-42, and she’s a natural brunette.
Is Kelley Curran Married?
Yes, Kelley Curran is married to a man named Vince Nappo. They’ve been together as husband and wife for five years. Nappo is an actor who has worked in Amazon Prime Video’s “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” opposite John Krasinski, “The Last Tycoon” opposite Kelsey Grammer, and “I’m Dying Up Here” opposite Ari Graynor.
What Do We Know About Her Family?
Kelley Curran is the type of actress who keeps these sorts of details as part of her private life and away from the press. So, there are not any details about her relatives or siblings available from trusted sources. And that’s both respectable and understandable.
Kelley Curran’s Net Worth
By the time of print, we can calculate Kelley Curran’s net worth north of $3 million, with the bulk of her income coming from her work as an actress. Since Kelley and her husband are very tight-lipped about their private life, we don’t know anything about her residence, investments, or any other kind of financial deals.
Kelley Curran As Mrs. Winterton
If you followed the first season of Julian Fellowes’s “The Gilded Age,” you are presented to Curran’s role as Mrs. Winterton, a maid under the service of Bertha Russell, a “new money” high society lady who just landed in New York and wants to use her wealth to buy herself a place into the elites.
Mrs. Winterton seems loyal to Bertha Russell. Still, she has an agenda of her own because the only reason she worked for her in the Russell estate was to see how the rich —old and new— moved. As such, she doesn’t plan to live in the basement and tend to Bertha’s clothes and fetch her tea. The two have a falling out, and she is sacked from the Russell estate.
In the recent episodes, during a summer getaway, Bertha is surprised to find that Curran’s character is back, and she uses her social climbing skills, knowledge of the jet-set, and charm to find herself a rich widower to captivate and wrap around her arms.
When Bertha finds out about this, her scorn is impossible to hide. And thus, yet another rivalry ensues because the rich widower she married is also setting foot in New York. This means that the character story arc development for Curran and Carrie Coon in the role of Bertha is one that we might explore as the season unfolds.
Bear in mind that Bertha is already spending her husband’s money to buy real estate, compete with the Van Rhijns when it comes to opera seats, be a patron of the arts, and befriend Mrs. Astor, who is noticing how Bertha Russell’s inferiority complex becomes evident when she tries to “buy her way in”.
