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    this is me

    Mar 26, 2019 5 minutes
    BY CHRISSY METZ, Los Angeles, California

    SOME PEOPLE CALL ME AN OVER-night sensation. I play Kate in the hit TV series This Is Us, and now I have my first feature film, Breakthrough, coming out this Easter. But I wouldn’t exactly call my success “overnight.” More like 365 nights and days—multiplied by a dozen years.

    In Breakthrough, I play the mom of a boy who drowned and was declared dead. She refused to believe it and kept praying, praying when no hope seemed possible, praying when all the evidence argued against her prayers, praying that the boy would come back to life. Miraculously he did.

    That kind of resilience is something I can relate to. In life and in prayer.

    A year and a half ago, I was gearing up for the Emmys. I’d been nominated for best supporting actress in a drama series and convinced Mom that she had to come

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