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Malin Akerman Opens Up About Turbulent Childhood, Early Career: ‘Comedy Was a Mask’

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“Coming to Hollywood, it helped me understand how to read people on an almost animalistic level,” the “Billions” actress reveals at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast

Actress Malin Akerman opened up about her turbulent childhood during an emotional interview at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco on Wednesday, saying that being a latchkey kid in a rough neighborhood and getting thrown out of the house at 16 “drove me to be the woman I am today.”

“It was tough,” the “Billions” actress told a packed room of women executives at Dolby Laboratories headquarters.

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