Actress Kathleen Rose Perkins grew up in a small town in Michigan—about 40 miles outside of Detroit and got bitten by the acting bug in 8th grade when her English teacher suggested she be a performer. Since then, she’s never looked back. You may have seen the actress starring along Matt LeBlanc in Showtime’s critically acclaimed series, Episodes or saw her opposite Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in David Fincher’s buzzed about movie GONE GIRL by Twentieth Century Fox Films. We caught up with the busy actress before season four of Episodes (premieres January 11, 2015) to dig deeper about how she realized acting was for her, what it’s like on the set of Episodes, how she prepared for the role in GONE GIRL—and the little known fact on what she loves about visiting 37 national parks around the US.